STATE OF CONNECTICUT EXECUTIVE BRANCH JOBS

Transportation Engineer Trainee - Pavement Management

Target Class: Transportation Engineer 1 and 2 (Engineering)

Recruitment #230303-8741FS-001

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Introduction


Interested in a career that has a direct positive impact on Connecticut’s citizens and communities?  Join our team of engineers who are working to ensure that Connecticut’s pavements are expertly preserved, rehabilitated and reconstructed! 

The State of Connecticut, Department of Transportation (DOT), is now accepting applications for a Transportation Engineer Trainee position in the Pavement Management section in the Bureau of Engineering and Construction, Project Administration Unit at our Newington Headquarters!

Current students who will be graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering by the end of May 2023 are strongly encouraged to apply!

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
  • Mentoring by experienced, licensed professionals
  • Competitive starting salary
  • Industry leading health benefits, including medical and dental coverage 
  • Extensive pension plan and supplemental retirement offerings
  • Paid time off- including 13 holidays per calendar year
  • Professional growth and development opportunities
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Alternate work schedule options
  • Hybrid (office/telework) opportunities
  • Healthy work-life balance
  • On-site low-cost fitness center, on-site cafeteria and Electric Vehicle (EV) charging
  • Ample free parking with easy access from major highways or by public transportation
POSITION HIGHLIGHTS
  • Monday-Friday
  • Full-time (40 hours/week)
  • 1st Shift 
  • Centrally located in Newington, CT
  • Applicants must be available to travel for training, conferences, meetings, field reviews, etc. both within and outside of normal working hours, when necessary
  • A valid motor vehicle operator's license is required and must be maintained
  • New hires to State service start at Paygrade FS 18, step 5, currently $69,128 annually
PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITY
Transportation Engineer Trainees receive training to develop technical engineering skills and knowledge. After successfully completing your one-year training program, you will be promoted to the target class of Transportation Engineer 1 (Engineering). After successfully completing two years as a Transportation Engineer 1, you will be promoted to Transportation Engineer 2.

THE ROLE
Engineers in the Pavement Management section: 
  • provide services to assist decision makers in determining cost-effective strategies for maintaining, preserving, rehabilitating, and reconstructing the Connecticut state-maintained network of pavements.  
  • manage pavement databases that include pavement condition, pavement inventory, and pavement activity data.  These databases are used within a Pavement Management System (PMS) for a network-level approach to optimize the cost-benefit ratio of construction programs for the entire network.  These programs include pavement resurfacing, preservation, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.  
  • manage project development for the Pavement Preservation Program, collaborating with engineers throughout units within the department, from project initiation through to full project establishment.
  • review pavement condition data for the annual Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) submittal to FHWA.
  • oversee and ensure quality assurance of pavement condition data collected by the CTDOT Photolog Unit according to a federally approved data quality management plan.
  • provide pavement data updates to FHWA each year for CTDOT’s Asset Management Implementation Documentation for FHWA to perform an annual consistency review.  Pavement inventory and condition data, performance projections using the PMS, gaps in targets, and pavement financial information, are all needed for the submittal, which also includes an updated pavement fact sheet each year.
  • respond to pavement data inquiries from the executive level and public to address legislative, news related highway concerns and citizen concerns.  
  • provide state pavement performance measures for inclusion in the CTDOT Performance Measures Dashboard.
DISCOVER THE CHANCE TO
  • Learn progressively more about pavement and asset management
  • Problem solve, recommend, and implement effective solutions in a timely manner
  • Contribute to providing safe and efficient transportation improvements for the traveling public
  • Utilize computer software such as Microsoft Excel, SQL Server, Access and database management applications 
  • Showcase your oral, written, organizational, and interpersonal skills
Application Details: Please list your Driver's license number, expiration date, and issuing State, Engineer in Training license number (if applicable) and any other job-relevant licenses or certifications you hold, in the Licenses and Professional Certifications section of your application.

WHO WE ARE
At the DOT, our mission is to provide a safe and efficient intermodal transportation network that improves the quality of life and promotes economic vitality for the State and the region. Learn more about our mission, vison, and values here!

Watch the video below to see what Transportation Engineers do at the Connecticut DOT!

Selection Plan

To Apply:
  • In order to comply with Public Act 21-69, the State of Connecticut is no longer asking for resumes during the initial application process.
  • The minimum experience and training requirements must be met by the close date on the job opening, unless otherwise specified.
  • Please ensure that your application is complete before submitting it. Applicants will be unable to make revisions once their application is submitted into the JobAps system. Applicants who submit and subsequently withdraw their application will not be able to resubmit for the same posting.
  • All application materials must be received by the recruiting agency by the time specified on the job opening for the position for which you are applying. Late applications may not be submitted and will not be considered. Exceptions are rare and limited to documented events that incapacitate a candidate during the entire duration of the job posting time period.  It is the candidate’s obligation and responsibility to request an exception and provide a legally recognized justification to accommodate such exception.  Requests should be made to DAS.SHRM@ct.gov.
  • For assistance in applying, please visit our 'Applicant Tips on How to Apply' page
Important Next Step Information for After You Apply:
  • Although applicants will receive correspondence via email, as a backup they are also encouraged to sign on to their Personal Status Board on a daily basis to monitor their status, view all emailed notices and complete tasks required in the recruitment process.
  • This posting may require completion of additional referral questions (RQs). You can access these RQs via an email that will be sent to you after the posting's closing date or by visiting your JobAps Personal Status Board (Certification Questionnaires section). Your responses to these RQs must be submitted by the question's expiration date. Please regularly check your email and JobAps Personal Status Board for notifications. Please check your SPAM and/or Junk folders on a daily basis in the event an email provider places auto-notification emails in a user's spam.
  • At any point during the recruitment process, applicants may be required to submit additional documentation which support their qualification(s) for this position.  These documents may include:  a cover letter, resume, transcripts, diplomas, performance reviews, attendance records, supervisory references, licensure, etc., at the discretion of the hiring agency.
  • The immediate vacancies are listed above, however, applications to this recruitment may be used for future vacancies in this job class.
  • Interviews will be limited to candidates whose experience and training most closely meet the requirements of the position.
  • Candidates who are offered and accept a position with the State of Connecticut are bound by the State Code of Ethics for Public Officials and State Employees which is available at www.ct.gov/ethics
Connect With Us:
Due to the large volume of applications received, the State of Connecticut is unable to provide confirmation of receipt or status during the recruitment process. Updates will be available through your JobAps portal account. If you have any questions pertaining to this recruitment please contact Hayley Newhouse at Hayley.Newhouse@ct.gov.

PURPOSE OF JOB CLASS (NATURE OF WORK)

In the Department of Transportation and the Connecticut Airport Authority, this class is accountable for receiving training in introductory professional engineering work for the development of technical and professional transportation engineering and transportation construction engineering skills and knowledge in order to qualify for advancement in the field of transportation engineering.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES

The Pavement Management team is responsible for compiling pavement condition information and proposing cost-effective treatment strategies to optimize investments in pavements. As a Transportation Engineer Trainee you will:

  • Assist in developing, updating, and maintaining pavement management databases in Microsoft SQL Server
  • Assist in performing analyses using CTDOT’s Pavement Management System software called dTIMS™
  • Assist in documenting and maintaining annual pavement activity data on the state-maintained highway network (Office of Construction Capital Improvements, Pavement Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Program, Maintenance Resurfacing Program, Pavement Preservation Program, and Major Traffic Generator Permits)
  • Assist in documenting yearly construction cost data
  • Assist in managing the interface between pavement-management data and the Department’s data warehouse (including the Linear Referencing System used by Roadway Information Systems in the Bureau of Policy and Planning)
  • Assist in maintaining and improving pavement performance curves and models through analyses of historical condition, composition, and inventory data
  • Assist in developing protocols for modifications to the PMS data and analysis procedures (tables, attributes, variables, treatment triggers)
  • Assist in preparing HPMS data for reporting to FHWA
  • Assist in preparing pavement condition data for the annual TAMP Pavement Fact Sheet
  • Assist in running queries in SQL Server for stakeholders
  • Assist in performing activities according to a Pavement Condition Data Quality Management Plan (DQMP):
  • Perform pavement data acceptance checks 
  • Report pavement data quality exceptions according to a DQMP
  • Assist in maintaining a pavement data acceptance log according to a DQMP
  • Assist in laying out and collecting validation control site data

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY

General knowledge of basic transportation engineering theories, principles and methods; skill in use of drafting and calculating instruments and other computer applications; considerable ability in performing mathematical computations, making neat and accurate drawings and preparing minor design and structural details.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCE

Possession of a Bachelor's degree.
NOTE:
  1. If the target job classification has a Minimum Qualification that requires specific licensure and/or the Bachelor's degree to be in a specific area(s), then these specific licensures and degree areas are required for appointment to the Transportation Engineer Trainee classification.
  2. Candidates cannot be appointed until all degree requirements are complete.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - SUBSTITUTIONS ALLOWED

1. Possession of Professional Engineer (PE) licensure from the Department of Consumer Protection State Board of Examiners for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors consistent with C.G.S.§20-302 may be substituted for the General Experience requirement.
2. Possession of Engineer-In-Training (EIT) licensure from the Department of Consumer Protection State Board of Examiners for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors consistent with C.G.S.§20-302 may be substituted for the General Experience requirement.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Possession of an engineering degree with course work relevant to the fields of pavement engineering, pavement management, asset management, and/or statistics
  • 3.0 or higher grade-point average in relevant engineering and statistics courses
  • Academic, internship or work experience in the fields of pavement management, asset management, and/or statistics
  • Academic, internship, or work experience using asset management and/or relational database management system software (RDBMS) applications
  • Experience using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and/or similar computer software, and/or in using C or C++ general-purpose computer programming language
  • Experience with presentation skills
  • Experience with providing verbal and written communication to a diverse population
  • Completion of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam
  • Experience in efficiently managing large workloads

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

1. Incumbents in this class may be required to possess and retain a valid Motor Vehicle Operator’s license.
2. Incumbents in this class may be required to travel.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Incumbents in this class may be exposed to some risk of injury or physical harm from highway, construction site, or on-site environments and a moderate degree of discomfort from year round weather conditions.

Conclusion

AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.





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