Transportation Engineer Licensed Specialist 13 (Statewide Project Scheduling Engineer) - Development

Are you energized by collaborating with others, solving complex challenges and improving how transportation projects are delivered across Michigan? Do you enjoy serving as the connection between project managers and technical teams while using data to drive informed decisions? This position offers the opportunity to serve as the Michigan Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) statewide technical expert for project scheduling for the project development phase, partnering with project managers, specialty units, department leadership, and external stakeholders to support successful project delivery.

You'll analyze statewide project data, identify opportunities for improvement, develop reports and documentation that support both department leadership and Michigan's contracting community, and help communicate the impact of MDOT's transportation program at conferences and industry events. You'll thrive in this role if you enjoy solving complex problems, building collaborative relationships, and translating technical information into meaningful solutions. Success comes from combining strong analytical and communication skills with sound engineering judgment and a strategic mindset.

In this role, you'll collaborate with project managers, technical experts, information technology staff, vendors, and department leadership to improve statewide scheduling processes, develop practical solutions, and create the tools, guidance, and training that support consistent project delivery across Michigan.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical expert in supporting the schedule of all design projects, providing technical expertise to project managers on how to build and manage their project schedule to create statewide scheduling alignment.
• Support appropriate engineering standards and judgement being applied and ensure the process contains the right steps to be state and federal compliant.
• Coordinate internal and external teams to unify efforts and ensure best use of departmental information technology (IT) funds and efficient implementation of efforts from groups involved to support scheduling needs.
• Receive, resolve, and respond to customer scheduling concerns and make decisions based on engineering knowledge to resolve internal and external customer scheduling issues per organizational policies.
• Present at and participate in meetings with various groups and at various conferences to help facilitate updates, changes, and knowledge of new methods and procedures in project scheduling statewide as needed.

Requirements

To be considered for this position you must:

• Possess a registered professional engineering license as required by the State of Michigan.
• Possess a bachelor of science degree in engineering (bachelor of science degree in civil engineering preferred).
• Have four years of professional experience equivalent to a Transportation Engineer, including two years equivalent to a Transportation Engineer P11 or one year equivalent to a Transportation Engineer 12 or Transportation Engineer Licensed 12.

If applicable, attach a copy of your official college transcripts and/or foreign degree evaluation with your application. Applicants who possess foreign degrees must have their academic credentials evaluated or converted into U.S. educational equivalents.

Benefits

Based on operational needs and within established limits, remote work and alternate work schedule requests for this position may be considered. For information on benefits, visit www.mi.gov/employeebenefits or www.mi.gov/orsstatedc.

The State of Michigan has been recognized as a leading U.S. employer by new graduates from 2021-2023 and a best large U.S. and state employer. Recognized on the international stage for fostering positive employee engagement, the State of Michigan is a past recipient of a North America Government Agency Employees Engagement Award.

Pay

The salary range for this Transportation Engineer Licensed Specialist 13 position is reflective of the minimum through the maximum rate.