traffic and safety engineer-in-training - Denver, CO , USA, United States - State of Colorado

Description

Department Information

Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado.

New employees to the State will be paid biweekly. There are 26 biweekly pay periods in a year.

About CDOT

Do you want to make a difference in Coloradans' lives? Do you have a passion for helping people and keeping them safe? At the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), you'll have the opportunity to do just that.

The work our people do contributes to keeping Coloradans and visitors safe and provides freedom, connection, and experience through travel.

Please visit our careers page to learn about CDOT and how we are making Colorado a great place to live, work and play, now and for the future Also, check out our excellent benefits package

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The eligible list created from this announcement may be used to fill one or more positions for the next 6 months.

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Description of Job

About the Work Unit

This position resides in the Region 5 Traffic and Safety work unit.

This work unit exists to deliver capital traffic and safety engineering projects, deliver maintenance projects, provide traffic engineering review and support to local agency and permits unit, provide traffic engineering review and support for capital engineering projects, and respond to Traffic and Safety related customer concerns.

About the Position

This position is part of the Traffic and Safety work unit with Region 5.

This work unit exists to deliver capital traffic and safety engineering projects, deliver maintenance projects, provide traffic engineering review and support to local agency and permits unit, provide traffic engineering review and support for capital engineering projects, and respond to Traffic and Safety related customer concerns.

Delivery of capital traffic and safety engineering projects includes designing and compiling plans and specifications for:
traffic signals, signing/striping, multi-modal and ADA improvements, and construction traffic control plans.

Delivery of maintenance projects includes designing and compiling plans and specifications for annual maintenance projects such as region wide pavement marking, rumble strip, guardrail, and sign replacement.

Permits group support includes engineering support and review of traffic impact studies, construction plans and specs, and traffic control plans.

Support for capital engineering projects as a specialty unit includes; reviewing engineering plan and specification packages for accuracy and completeness in relation to Traffic and Safety elements.

Responding to customer service calls includes:
researching, analyzing, and responding to the public regarding traffic and safety-related concerns.

Major Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Under the guidance of the Traffic and Safety Resident Engineer:

• Project Delivery Process - Develop design schedules, engineers' estimates, specification packages, and construction plan sets using Microstation OpenRoads and/or lnRoads (latest available CAD program). Conduct Scoping, FIR, and FOR meetings; collaborate with regional Department of Transportation specialty units and maintenance to obtain clearances, assure plan set and specification accuracy, consistency and compliance with the Department of Transportation project delivery.
• Project Design Process - Design traffic signals, intersections, Multi-modal/ADA, and signing/striping projects, utilizing traffic and safety engineering fundamentals and guidance from: AASHTO Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, Roadside Design Guide, Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), CDOT Design Guide, CDOT Standard Specifications, CDOT M&S Standards, and other applicable design manuals. Prepare construction plans and specifications for Advertisement.
• Design to Construction Transition - Coordinate with the Traffic and Safety Construction Manager on project handoff from design to construction, coordinate and conduct hand-off meetings, highlighting project nuances and areas of concern regarding construction. Complete construction schedules and present project intent to various stakeholders, including contractors and local agencies. Become familiar with project consultant and contractor compliance with federally mandated programs and state requirements (i.e. EEO, AA, Davis-Bacon, OSHA, ADA, local ordinances, etc.).
• Construction Design Support - Learn how to provide design support during construction of assigned Traffic and Safety capital projects and maintenance projects to ensure design intent is achieved. Learn to inspect contractor's equipment, materials, workmanship, and products to ensure they are in conformance with contracts, plans and specifications, and maintain related documentation.
• Time Management - Manage multiple projects performing traffic engineering and adhere to deadlines.
• Scopes & Fees (Consultant) - Train to request and review statements of work (SOW) for project deliverables and timeline. Prepare independent cost estimates (ICE), negotiating cost and timeline to ensure it meets project needs. Track and review invoices to determine if deliverables were provided within agreed upon timelines, payment is accurate, and consultant is within budget.
• Project Management for Design (Consultant) - Train to manage consultant projects for design of capital or maintenance projects that cannot be designed in-house. Learn how to manage and direct consultant staff to provide agreed deliverables on time and within budget. Review deliverables and provide feedback to consultants in order to ensure consultant work is meeting the design goals of the project and is consistent with CDOT and Region 5 standards.
• Design to Construction Transition (Consultant) - Train to manage consultant during the transition of a project from design to construction. Ensure consultant availability for support during advertisement phase, and design support during construction.
• Traffic and Safety Operations - Perform intersection analysis and modeling to provide design recommendations, or to recommend more in depth analysis. Learn to perform Intersection Control Evaluations to make intersection type recommendations. Develop and maintain signal timing and coordination plans, in concert with the R5 Signal Electrician team, to include assisting with field implementation and timing adjustments. Perform Transportation System Management & Operations (TSM&O) evaluations in conjunction with Design Project Managers to provide TSM&O project recommendations.
• Permits Unit Support - Review traffic impact studies; utilizing the Institute of Transportation Engineers Trip Generation manual, State of Colorado State Highway Access Code, and Access Control Plans, to ensure data and recommendations presented follow Department of Transportation Access management. Review Methods of Handling Traffic (MHT's) for compliance with MUTCD and CDOT traffic control procedures for use on permit projects. Coordinate with permits managers and senior engineering staff to determine acceptable access improvements or methods of construction for permit projects. Provide Special Event support by coordinating with CSP and CDOT staff to ensure safety of event participants and highway users while minimizing event impacts.
• Capital Engineering Support - Review plan sets and specification packages at each milestone submittal (Scoping/FIR/FOR) for compliance and completeness from a Traffic and Safety engineering standpoint. Review striping, signage and any applicable specifications to make sure they follow the most current traffic and safety Regional and Department requirements and guidelines.

Understand Traffic and Safety specific CDOT procedural directives (ex:

pavement marking widths}, M & S Standards, Traffic and Safety specific Project Special Provisions and Standard Specials in order to ensure capital engineering projects are consistent with Regional and Department goals from a Traffic and Safety standpoint.

• Customer Service Call Support - Research, analyze, present options to senior engineering staff and respond to traffic and safety related customer calls such as; signal timing issues, speed limits, auxiliary lane requests, signage and pavement marking changes. Utilizing Department of Transportation computer crash analysis software, warrant analysis (signals, rectangular rapid flash beacons (RRFB's)), and previously mentioned engineering manuals to provide responses to the public. Learn to develop applicable concerns into small scale improvements that involve minor changes in signal timing, signing, or striping that can be delivered quickly and efficiently by R5 Traffic Maintenance crews. Respond to all customers in a courteous and timely manner as a reliable representative of CDOT.
• Other Support as Assigned - Provide Traffic and Safety engineering support for local agency projects, county comments, regional planning department, and other requests as needed. Utilize tools such as crash analysis software, regional safety studies, regional lane closure policy, and access control plans to analyze and report back findings/recommendations to senior engineering staff for use in public stakeholder meetings.
• Required to drive CDOT vehicles to project, meeting, or training locations in order to carry out assigned duties.
• Other job duties assigned

Work Environment:

• Primarily 8:00 am - 5:00 pm work hours, Monday-Friday
• Approximately 20% spent in the field, 80% spent in the office
• Travel required during work hours throughout Southwestern Colorado
• Occasional overnight travel 1-3 times a year throughout Colorado
• Required to operate CDOT vehicles
• General office work and in-person review of highway project sites. Occasional lifting of 20 pounds.
• Exposure to elements and traffic during project site visits

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights


Minimum Qualifications:

• Current enrollment as an Engineer Intern by the Colorado State Board of Licensure for Architects, Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors.
• AND at least one year of professional civil engineering experience pertaining to transportation.

Substitutions:

• Current, valid licensure as a Professional Engineer from the Colorado State Board of Licensure for Architects, Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors will substitute for the enrollment as an Engineer Intern. If using this substitution, you must provide your PE License number.
• Appropriate education in addition to that required for enrollment as an Engineer Intern will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis. If using this substitution, you must provide a copy of your transcript.

Conditions of Employment:

• It is a condition of employment that individuals hired to the class of Engineer-In-Training must obtain registration as a Professional Engineer by the Colorado Board within 8 years of appointment to the Engineer-In-Training classification at CDOT.
• A current valid driver's license is required for this position as it requires operating a state or personal motor vehicle to perform one or more essential functions of the position.

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Preferred Qualifications

The exceptional applicant will possess the proven ability or accomplishment in the following:

• Highest work/personal ethics and integrity;
• Ability and willingness to maintain current working knowledge of engineering processes, theories, laws, principles, conceptual models, and best practices;
• Proven ability to manage multiple assignments, priorities, and projects in a demanding environment;
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and be adaptable to changing assignments;
• Ability to take initiative to solve problems in an innovative manner;
• Ability to partner with professionals, consultants, vendors, stakeholders and staff, with sensitivity to their needs and priorities.
• Ability to negotiate mutually acceptable solutions; build consensus through give and take;
• Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills;
• Strong time and project management skills, including prioritization and multi-tasking ability;
• Excellent reasoning, investigative, analytical, and problem solving ability;
• Excellent facilitation, presentation, and communication skills, both written and oral;
• Strong attention to technical detail and accuracy;
• Passion for safety;
• Ability to work effectively in both independent and team situations;
• Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access), Synchro 12, MicroStation, ORD, Gmail, SAP, and the ability to quickly learn other software systems.

Stronger candidates will be those that demonstrate depth and breadth of skill and ability, through a combination of professional experience and formal training, to successfully perform the duties and responsibilities of this position.

Supplemental Information

Applicant Checklist

Complete Applications must include the following documents:

• A complete CDOT Application for Announced Vacancy (please submit online using the green 'APPLY' button at the top of this announcement)
• A complete Supplemental Questionnaire (The questionnaire is part of the online application. You will be prompted to answer them as you are completing your online application.)
• A cover letter that describes your interest in this position, how your experience aligns with the minimum and preferred qualifications of this position. Cover letters must be uploaded as an attachment to your online application. Cover letters will not be accepted after the closing date and time of the announcement.
• If you are using education to qualify, a copy of your official or unofficial transcript showing that your degree has been conferred and the name of your school, or your NACES accreditation. Please submit this as an attachment to your online application.
• If you are a veteran, a copy of your DD214. Please submit this as an attachment to your online application.
• Please attach the documentation showing your enrollment as an Engineer Intern to your application.

Only complete applications submitted by the closing date for this announcement will be given consideration. Every effort must be made to submit all application materials by the announcement close date.

Where unusual circumstances prevent timely acquisition of transcripts, they must be submitted within five business days of the announcement close date.

Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application.

Failure to submit properly completed documents by the closing date of this announcement may result in your application being rejected.

Notifications:
All correspondence regarding your status in the selection/examination process will be via email.

Include your current working email address on your application and check your email frequently as you could receive time sensitive correspondence regarding this position.

We highly recommend that you set up your email to accept messages from and addresses.

It is your responsibility to ensure that your email will accept these notices and/or review your junk mail and spam filtered email.

Immediately after you submit your application you should receive an email that confirms that you successfully submitted an application for this position.

If you do not, try submitting again until you receive the confirmation email. Be sure to also check your junk folder for email communications from the State of Colorado's website.


The Hiring Process:

• All applications that are received by the closing of this announcement will be reviewed against the minimum qualifications in this announcement. Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications proceed to the next step.
• Colorado Revised Statutes require that state employees are hired and promoted based on merit and fitness through a comparative analysis process.
• Part or all of the comparative analysis for this position may be a structured application review, which involves a review of the information you submit in your application materials by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) against the preferred qualifications.
• Be sure your application materials specifically address your qualifications, experience, work products, and accomplishments as they relate to the Major Duties, Minimum Qualifications, and Preferred Qualifications sections as listed above. Failure to include adequate information or follow instructions by the deadline for application may result in your application not being accepted for this position and may affect your inclusion as a qualified candidate in any step of the selection process and placement on the eligible list.
• A top group, up to six candidates, will be invited to schedule an interview with the hiring manager.

Transfer, Non-Disciplinary Demotion or Reinstatement

If you believe that you are eligible to be considered as a transfer, non-disciplinary demotion, or reinstatement to this vacancy, you must submit a completed application following the directions in this job announcement and you will be included in the selection process along with other qualified applicants.

If you are the finalist for this position after the selection process, Human Resources will confirm your eligibility to be appointed as a transfer, non-disciplinary demotion, or reinstatement applicant.

Employment Screening

If an applicant reaches the finalist stage of the hiring process, the Colorado Department of Transportation may procure a consumer report and/or investigative consumer report on the applicant in connection with his/her application for employment purposes, as defined under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

These reports may be obtained at any time after receipt of the applicant's authorization.

As part of the employment screening an applicant will be requested to disclose any deferred judgments and convictions as well an explanation of the circumstances around any arrest or conviction.

In the event that a screening returns information that the applicant believes is not accurate, he or she will have an opportunity to dispute the information with Info Cubic.

Info Cubic, a consumer reporting agency, will obtain the report for CDOT. Further information regarding Info Cubic, LLC, including its privacy policy, may be found online at Info Cubic is located at 116 Inverness Drive East, Suite 206, Englewood, CO 80112, and can be reached at

The report may contain information bearing on the applicant's character, general reputation, personal characteristics, and mode of living.

The information that may be included in the report includes:
social security number trace, criminal records check, public court records checks, educational records, and driving records checks. CDOT will only request credit reports insofar as they relate to the position for which the applicant is applying. The information contained in the report will be obtained from private and/or public record sources.

The applicant will have the right, upon written request made within a reasonable time after receipt of a notice, to request disclosure of the nature and scope of any investigative consumer report.

Appeal Rights

If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.

An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative.

This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email ), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver, CO 80203), or faxed within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department's action.

For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board go to ; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at ; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at under Rules.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

The State of Colorado believes that equity, diversity, and inclusion drive our success, and we encourage candidates from all identities, backgrounds, and abilities to apply.

The State of Colorado is an equal opportunity employer committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them.

Therefore, in all aspects of the employment process, we provide employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, medical condition related to pregnancy, creed, ancestry, national origin, marital status, genetic information, or military status (with preference given to military veterans), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.

Discrimination and/or harassment against any person is prohibited because of disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran's status, marital status, gender identity or any other protected class recognized under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA).

This applies to all employment decisions.

ADAAA Accommodations

CDOT is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability as defined by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship.

If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to Priya Kumar at .

Former State Employees

Former employees of the Colorado Department of Transportation System or any other State of Colorado Department or Agency, who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination, must disclose this information on his/her application.

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