Description
Plan, design, and oversee construction and maintenance of highways, roads, and interchanges, including pavements, bridges, drainage, traffic operations, and safety systems.
- • Compute horizontal and vertical alignments, grades, sight distances, and pavement or bridge capacities to meet design criteria.
- • Inspect highway project sites to monitor progress and verify conformance with plans, specifications, and safety standards.
- • Direct or perform roadway surveying and staking to establish centerlines, profiles, elevations, and right-of-way limits.
- • Prepare quantity takeoffs and cost estimates for earthwork, pavement, structures, and drainage.
- • Prepare or present bid documents, public meeting materials, environmental assessments, and right-of-way plats.
- • Test or interpret tests of subgrade soils, aggregates, asphalt, concrete, and reinforcing steel for quality and strength.
- • Conduct traffic counts, capacity analyses, and safety studies to diagnose issues and evaluate project impacts.
- • Design roadway geometrics and pavements with context-sensitive, low-impact drainage and stormwater features.
- • Design stormwater conveyance and treatment systems to manage roadway runoff and pollutants.
- • Develop or coordinate remediation plans for contaminated soils or sites encountered during highway projects.
- • Direct engineering activities to ensure compliance with AASHTO, FHWA, MUTCD, ADA, and state DOT requirements.
- • Identify geotechnical, hydrologic, traffic, and work zone risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- • Provide technical guidance to transportation agencies, municipalities, and contractors on design, construction, and repairs.
- • Manage construction, inspection, and maintenance activities for roadway, bridge, and drainage assets.
- • Plan and design traffic control plans, signing and striping layouts, guardrail and barrier systems, and ITS components.
- • Analyze survey data, topographic maps, aerial imagery, LiDAR, and geologic reports to support design.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
