The incumbent serves as a member of the Division Office Leadership Team and oversees the program management functions of construction, design, contract administration, structures, pavement and materials, and consultant procurement, among others. Activities are performed through close coordination with FHWA partners and leading teams to review and approve project and program level functions.
As a Lead Civil Engineer (Highway), you will: Provide expert advice and guidance to partner organizations in Utah and promote agreement on general approaches, standards and criteria, and the application of new policies and concepts in project development, safety, design, and construction. This position also interprets and approves FHWA actions as necessary to deliver the federal-aid program.
Provide guidance to UDOT and staff on administering the federal-aid highway program, goals, and objectives. Provide expert advice and counsel to staff on an as-needed basis. Ensure coordination of Project Delivery activities with management and other functional areas within the Division Office, state, and nation. Maintain regular contacts with national, state, industry, and local transportation partners to keep informed of emerging activities.
Share information with those involved in the administration of project development, design, construction, and maintenance of efforts through the project development process. Represent and negotiate on behalf of the Utah Division Administrator with partners on various topics. Approve a variety of complex project and program level actions for the Division Administrator.
Exercise the appropriate decision-making and approval actions on various documents as required under the federal-aid highway program and which have been delegated by the Division Administrator. Provide expertise on the formulation of Division Office policy and may formulate team policy to enhance accountability and performance. Develop and write Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to guide office activities.
The ideal candidate is a mid-career engineer with experience monitoring Statewide Federally funded highway programs or managing the delivery of a program of highway projects from initial scoping through construction support and maintenance; and experience conveying ideas and concepts to persuade others in meetings, discussions, and in writing.
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 $106437 – $138370/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-10-02.
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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