Description
Apply principles of transportation and civil engineering to assist in planning, designing, and overseeing construction, operations, and maintenance of roads, highways, bridges, transit, and traffic-control systems under the direction of engineering staff.
- • Analyze traffic counts, speeds, and crash data; prepare maps, diagrams, and charts showing findings and recommended improvements.
- • Review roadway and bridge plans, specifications, and standards (e.g., MUTCD, AASHTO) to determine dimensions, materials, and requirements.
- • Compile field notes and prepare reports on surveys, traffic studies, inspections, and test results.
- • Coordinate with engineers to define project details, staging, work-zone traffic control, and acceptance testing plans.
- • Inspect construction of pavements, earthwork, drainage, signage, striping, and signals to verify compliance with drawings, codes, and DOT specifications.
- • Perform field surveys and GPS measurements to locate alignments, utilities, and control points and to document existing conditions.
- • Develop quantities and cost estimates for roadway, drainage, and traffic-control installations and maintenance activities.
- • Identify site issues such as pavement distress, drainage problems, and device failures; report to supervisor and recommend corrections.
- • Conduct soils, aggregate, concrete, and asphalt tests (e.g., compaction, gradation, slump, density) and document results.
- • Address public inquiries on detours, access changes, and traffic safety; log feedback and relay to the project team.
- • Prepare project schedules and budgets for design tasks, utility relocations, traffic control, and construction phases.
- • Assist with contractor negotiations and change orders by validating quantities, unit prices, and time impacts.
- • Calculate roadway geometrics, cross-sections, and material takeoffs (asphalt, aggregate, signs, signals) using CAD and spreadsheets.
- • Draft plan and profile sheets, typical sections, signing and pavement marking layouts, and traffic-signal plans to meet standards.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
