Description
Plan, design, and manage highway, roadway, and interchange projects in accordance with engineering standards and DOT policies. Prepare designs, specifications, and cost estimates, and plan upgrades to existing corridors to improve safety, capacity, and traffic flow.
- • Present plans, exhibits, and traffic analyses at highway project public meetings.
- • Review land development proposals for impacts on highways and access management.
- • Prepare reports on crashes, safety countermeasures, and corridor operations.
- • Evaluate highway signing, signals, lighting, and ITS for modification or expansion.
- • Review and optimize work zone traffic control plans for safety and capacity.
- • Develop or customize roadway design or traffic modeling software workflows.
- • Prepare project budgets, schedules, quantities, and material specifications.
- • Produce final roadway layout drawings, including geometric design and stress calculations where applicable.
- • Plan reconstruction, widening, and interchange modifications to improve function and safety.
- • Participate in contract bidding, negotiation, and administration.
- • Model corridor and intersection scenarios to test alternatives and development impacts.
- • Investigate congestion and safety issues and recommend improvements.
- • Test asphalt, concrete, aggregates, and soils for compliance with specifications.
- • Inspect highway construction for quality, safety, and regulatory compliance.
- • Direct surveying, staking, and alignment control for roadway construction.
- • Estimate costs for highway alternatives and life-cycle maintenance.
- • Coordinate with contractors, utilities, railroads, and agencies on plans and schedules.
- • Check roadway plans, profiles, cross sections, and calculations for accuracy and standards compliance.
- • Analyze environmental impact documents for highway projects.
- • Oversee maintenance and rehabilitation of pavements, bridges, drainage, and roadside assets.
- • Design highways, interchanges, bridges, drainage, and roadway lighting to applicable standards.
- • Design highway drainage, erosion, and sedimentation control systems.
- • Incorporate sustainable materials and complete streets elements into designs.
- • Plan deconstruction or removal of obsolete roadway assets with sustainable practices.
- • Evaluate construction materials and methods for compliance with environmental standards.
- • Verify completed highway projects meet environmental permits and commitments.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
