Transportation Engineer (Drainage)

Job Duties

• Develops and/or oversees the development and documentation of roadway and bridge hydraulic and hydrologic designs, calculations and modeling; including but not limited to culverts, curbs and gutter, down drains, spillways, channels, crown ditches, storm drains, bank stabilization, scour protection, and other erosion control measures.
• Review and approve drainage documentation not limited to drainage reports and memos, roadway design plans, bridge hydraulic reports, special provisions, and cost estimates, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable drainage design guidelines, standards, policies and procedures.
• Review the drainage impact of potential encroachment permits and potential lease or sale of ADOT managed land, recommending approval or providing comments as necessary, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable drainage design guidelines, standards, policies and procedures.
• Represents Section, Group and ADOT at committees, workshops, project status meetings, comment resolution meetings, brainstorming, huddles, and other types of meeting with various ADOT Sections, Groups, agencies, consultants, contractors, attorneys, and general public.
• Communicates with ADOT Staff, outside agencies and organizations (FHWA, FEMA, EPA, Counties, etc.) through meetings, reports, and other means to ensure timely and well-coordinated responses.
• Participate in planning and project scoping tasks associated with road and bridge projects, providing drainage design expertise to analyze and define project needs and design alternatives (including developing erosion control measures, scour ratings, countermeasures and Plans of Action) that meet the performance objectives of a project.
• Organizes, attends and participates in field review meetings to better understand and resolve project related needs and issues.
• Participates in and contributes towards regular training, research, seminars and workshops to help improve technical abilities and capabilities of self and team, including developing standard work documents (typically 5%-10%).
• Give expert witness testimony at drainage related litigation on behalf of the state.

Pre-Employment Requirements

• This position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job and the following requirements apply. Any employee operating a motor vehicle on State business must possess and retain a current, valid class-appropriate driver’s license, complete all required training, and successfully pass all necessary driver’s license record checks. The license must be current, unexpired, and neither revoked nor suspended. Employees who drive on state business are subject to driver’s license record checks, must maintain acceptable driving records, and must complete all required driver training.
• An employee who operates a personally owned vehicle on state business shall maintain the statutorily required liability insurance (see Arizona Administrative Code (A.A.C.) R2-10-207.11).
• A valid Arizona PE is required for this position. A candidate who holds an active PE in another state will be required to meet registration requirements set forth by the Arizona Technical Board of Registration and attain an Arizona PE from the Board within 6 months of employment start date.
• A valid driver’s license is required if the incumbent is to be an authorized state driver.

Benefits

• Affordable medical, dental, life, and short-term disability insurance plans
• Top-ranked retirement and long-term disability plans
• Accrued vacation at 4.00 hours bi-weekly for the first 3 years
• Sick days at 3.70 hours bi-weekly
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Deferred compensation plan
• Wellness plans
• Great Work Life Balance!