This position is in the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), California Federal-aid Division Office. You will serve as the Construction Program Manager as a member of the Project Delivery Team. You will be responsible for management, oversight, and stewardship of the highway construction program, regional project oversight, and implementation of grant projects and construction initiatives in California.
As a Civil Engineer (Highway) (Construction Program Manager), you will: Represent the Division at Senior leadership and staff level meetings with Caltrans, local public agencies, other federal agencies and industry partners. Participate in task forces or other committees to provide engineering expertise, develop policy, and assist in resolving complex Construction Program problems involving program management implementation.
Develop, implement, and monitor the Construction Program-related elements of the Stewardship and Oversight Agreement and for Discretionary Grant funded non-state DOT/direct recipient projects. Determine program progress and success in meeting overall agency goals. Recommend improvements and develop improvement action plans as needed.
Provide engineering expertise, technical assistance, and recommendations to Division staff on construction project related matters in accordance with the Division's risk-based stewardship and oversight initiatives. Lead and/or participate in program reviews of the Construction Program procedures and processes used by Caltrans to implement Federal-aid projects. This may include researching background information and performing risk assessments.
Conduct continuous process improvement guidelines, analyzing the existing process, performing data analysis, mapping processes, writing reports, and involvement in the resolution of findings and recommendations. Share Construction Program related information and coordinate with internal FHWA staff.
Provide expertise and advice to Transportation Engineers, Financial Specialists, and other technical specialists in resolving Construction Program related issues that have programmatic implications. Review and approve annual updates to the Caltrans Construction Manual and updates to Office Bulletins. Coordinate FHWA comments on draft updates to the Caltrans Construction Manual and Office Bulletins from FHWA functional and program specialists in related program areas.
Approve Caltrans Specifications and Standard Plans.
Monitor and analyze Division activities to identify Construction Program trends and recurring issues, report those issues to the Executive Leadership Team, and recommend actions to enhance opportunities and/or mitigate threats The ideal candidate is a mid-career professional who has experience administering Highway Engineering and Construction programs at a national, statewide, or local transportation system level applying construction methods, alternative contracting strategies, and sound engineering principles and techniques in delivering highway and bridge construction projects to manage performance and track the health of the federal-aid program.
MANDATORY EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: A.
DEGREE: ENGINEERING --To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
OR B. COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE -- College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering.
The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration.
For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance.
Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive). All applicants must meet the education requirements under A or B to qualify for applying to an engineering position. Transcripts are required for this position.
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This position is with Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation.
The posted pay range is $99218 – $161313/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-09-09.
This is a Full Time position.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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