Title: Engineer Sr. Supervisor Project Manager

State Role Title: Architect/Engineer II

Hiring Range: $88,678 - $144,102

Pay Band: 6

Agency: VA Dept of Transportation

Location: Bristol District Office

Agency Website: https://www.jobs.virginia.gov/home

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

VDOT Bristol District is seeking a dynamic and experienced Engineer Senior Supervisor Project Manager to join our team. In this role, you will supervise, mentor, and train a team of professional engineers and technical staff, ensuring the successful planning, development, and execution of engineering projects. You will be responsible for coordinating and monitoring the technical review, analysis, and approval of engineering activities, while providing project management leadership across functional areas. Key responsibilities include supervising, organizing, and directing staff and resources, as well as collaborating with management, stakeholders, customers, and key individuals throughout VDOT. The role also involves communication with internal staff, local government, consultants, citizens, and FHWA, ensuring alignment and progress on transportation projects and programs.

If you are a proactive leader with a strong background in engineering and project management, we invite you to apply and help Drive Us Forward!

Minimum Qualifications

• Skill in the use of computers and software applications to include engineering software.

• Valid Professional Engineer's license.

• Ability to oversee construction activities for multiple projects of varying complexity as Engineer-in-Responsible-Charge.

• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with diverse groups.

• Experience applying roadway engineering design and state and federal standards related to highway design and construction.

• Experience applying federal, state and local transportation rules, regulations, policies and practices.

• Degree in Construction or related field.

• Ability to supervise staff, programs and budgets.

• Experience in preliminary engineering and construction activities.

Additional Considerations

• Progressively responsible experience managing complex projects in the transportation engineering and construction industry.

• Experience managing total operation of projects with significant value.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or resume is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

State applications will only be accepted as submitted online by 11:55 pm on the closing date through the PageUp System. State applications submitted via email, postal mail, fax, or in person will not be considered. Applicants are expected to fully represent qualifications and work history on the State application and/or resume. The decision to interview an applicant is based on the information provided on the application, therefore, it is essential to fully complete each section of the application and provide detailed information. Submitting an incomplete state application, or a state application lacking in detail, may impact your interview eligibility.

Multiple positions may be filled from this recruitment within 90 days of the closing date.

In addition to a rewarding work experience, VDOT offers excellent health and life insurance, benefits, pre-tax spending accounts, state funded Short- and Long-Term Disability, paid holidays, vacation, tuition assistance, free wellness programs, and a state retirement plan with options for tax-deferred retirement savings including employer matching.

We are a “Virginia Values Veterans” (V3) official certified company and state agency that provides hiring preference to Veterans and Members of the Virginia National Guard in support of Executive Order 29, (2010). If you are a Veteran or Virginia National Guard Member, we urge you to respond accordingly on your state application.

We have Shared Values and a Code of Ethics: your success in our organization depends upon modeling these values, therefore please access the following link: https://www.virginiadot.org/about/missionandvalues.asp to review them and; if in agreement, we welcome you to apply.

Fingerprint-based background checks, references, work history, and DMV records will be verified prior to employment. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States. H1B VISA Sponsorship is not available. VDOT utilizes a market-based pay program, which has been approved by DHRM. Therefore, advertised rates of pay may or may not align with the Commonwealth pay bands.

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is an Equal Opportunity Employer by both policy and practice. For more information about our employment practices, please visit “Information for VDOT Employees and Applicants”: http://www.virginiadot.org/jobs/information_for_employees.asp

Once onboarded, this position may be eligible for telework opportunities; availability, hours, and duration of telework shall be approved as outlined in the Commonwealth’s telework policy.

Contact Information

Name: Jessica Meyer

Phone: 276-213-1791

Email: Jessica.meyer@vdot.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.