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About the Indiana Department of Transportation: The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) provides a dynamic workplace that serves Indiana citizens, improves our state's quality of life, and enhances its economic opportunity. INDOT has a number of innovative programs and projects, including Public-Private Partnerships, Green Initiatives, and cutting-edge uses of materials and assets. As part of the State of Indiana, INDOT offers a competitive total compensation package, as well as outstanding work/life balance. Whether you are an established professional in the transportation field or just starting your career, INDOT has exciting and challenging opportunities for you.
Role Overview:
This position serves as an Area Engineer for the Indiana Department of Transportation. As an Area Engineer, you will lead and oversee multiple highway construction projects within your assigned area, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and in compliance with INDOT standards, specifications, and contract requirements. This role provides direct supervision of Project Engineers, Project Supervisors, and inspection staff, including assigning personnel to projects, mentoring team members, and supporting employee development. The Area Engineer serves as a key technical resource and decisionmaker throughout the construction process, reviewing and approving change orders, resolving complex field issues, conducting project inspections, and providing engineering guidance on non-routine matters. Additionally, this position plays an important role in budget planning, policy development, contract administration, and long-range construction planning while collaborating with contractors, consultants, government officials, and other stakeholders to successfully deliver transportation infrastructure projects for Indiana communities.
Candidates
must be licensed as a Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Indiana and possess significant experience in highway construction, project management, and engineering leadership. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of INDOT standards and specifications, ASTM and AASHTO requirements, contract administration, and construction project oversight. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, along with the ability to manage multiple projects, supervise technical staff, evaluate complex engineering issues, and build effective relationships with contractors, consultants, government officials, and the public.
Location:This position is with INDOT's Crawfordsville District.
Salary:This position traditionally starts at an annual salary of $85,020.00 but may be commensurate with education and job experience. Use our
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Position OverviewThe Highway Engineer Supervisor directs and supervises Project Engineers, Project Managers, and Project Supervisors and assigns them to projects. You will process all change orders, have approval authority at appropriate levels, and make recommendations. Responsibilities include providing engineering direction on all projects assigned, including decisions on non-routine matters and providing input in preliminary and final field checks. Additionally, you will conduct inspections of projects to ensure compliance with plans, policies, special provisions, and specifications. You will also train and evaluate assigned personnel and set contract timelines on all projects. The Construction Area Engineer oversees the annual INDOT construction program in their assigned area; typically, their area's construction program value varies between $25,000,000 and $150,000,000 annually. The area engineer serves as the construction program manager and the direct-support technical expert for his/her staff. He/she directly supervises assigned INDOT construction support engineers, project engineers, project manager and project supervisors (for approx. 5-10 (+/-) inspection teams) along with between 5 and 15 consultant project teams (depending on the assigned construction program load).
The Construction Division at The Indiana Department of Transportation is primarily responsible for managing and executing the agency's multimillion-dollar contracts for preventative maintenance and new construction of INDOT's facilities (i.e. roadways, bridges, culverts, and traffic signals). Our mission-driven, service-led team accomplishes this by overseeing all phases of the construction contract and progress to ensure contractors deliver a quality product that conforms to plans and specifications. Indiana has recently been ranked #1 in the infrastructure category of CNBC's "Top States for Business" report and offers opportunities for advancement in construction as well as other departments related to infrastructure.
LocationThis position is located in INDOT's Crawfordsville District, Frankfort Area.
What You'll Need for Success:Individuals in this role should minimally be able to articulate or demonstrate the following:
- Registered Professional Engineers license in Indiana required.
- Must possess a valid Indiana driver's license.
- Broad knowledge of civil/transportation disciplines. Understanding of department design standards, policies, and practices. Understanding of the NEPA and NHPA processes. Knowledge of various computer applications such as CAD, spreadsheets, databases, and scheduling. Knowledge of various forms of traffic operations analysis such as capacity analysis and crash analysis. Knowledge of alternatives development, decision-making, and engineering economic analysis.
- Must be able to read and interpret engineering plans and specifications, define problems, collect appropriate data, establish facts, define, and communicate with stakeholders and draw valid engineering solutions. Must be able to handle routine and sensitive contacts with government officials, consulting firms/contractors and the public.
- Ability to identify problems; determine accuracy and relevance of information; use sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives and to make recommendations.
- Ability to plan and develop engineering projects with unique or controversial problems and/or novel engineering related concepts and approaches.
A degree is not required. However, at least four (4) years of professional experience in engineering, civil engineering, transportation research, or a closely related field. Two (2) years of experience as a group or project leader providing work direction and training to engineering technicians and/or lower-level engineers, or two (2) years experience in conducting engineering-related research applying the outlined knowledge, skills, and abilities in a similar role may be considered. Individuals should have the ability to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
A Day in the Life:The essential functions of this role are as follows:
- Develop engineering policies and plans projects concerned with unique or controversial problems which have a significant impact on major organizational programs.
- Provide budgetary information, researches and makes recommendations to assist with long range planning.
- Evaluate engineering policies, recommends revisions, and approves and implements policies.
- Evaluate the impact of changes to engineering policies, procedures and standards having statewide implications, makes recommendations to supervisor, integrates changes in existing programs, and directs research and evaluation efforts.
The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time.
This position is exempt from overtime compensation for additional work hours which may be required to complete essential functions or other assigned work. Exempt employees may work more than 75 hours in a pay period without additional compensation and must report a minimum of 75 hours per pay period of work hours and/or paid leave taken to receive their base biweekly salary.
Supervisory Responsibilities/Direct Reports:This role may provide direct supervision for one or more staff members.
Personal Work Relationships:This individual will be expected to partner with agency personnel and related stakeholders working towards completion of assigned functions. Exceptional customer service is provided to agency partners and/or the general public.
Partnership with relevant public agencies, federal, state & local governments and/or community leaders may be required.
Benefits of Employment with the State of Indiana:The State of Indiana offers a comprehensive benefit package for full-time employees which includes:
- Three (3) medical plan options (including RX coverage) as well as vision and dental plans
- Wellness Rewards Program: Complete wellness activities to earn gift card rewards
- Health savings account, which includes bi-weekly state contribution
- Deferred compensation 457(b) account (similar to 401(k) plan) with employer match
- Two (2) fully-funded pension plan options
- A robust, comprehensive program of leave policies covering a variety of employee needs, including but not limited to:
- 150 hours of paid New Parent Leave and up to eight weeks of paid Childbirth Recovery Leave for eligible mothers
- Up to 15 hours of paid community service leave
- Combined 180 hours of paid vacation, personal, and sick leave time off
- 12 paid holidays, 14 on election years
- Education Reimbursement Program
- Group life insurance
- Referral Bonus program
- Employee assistance program that allows for covered behavioral health visits
- Qualified employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
- Free Parking for most positions
- Free LinkedIn Learning access
Equal Employment Opportunity:The State of Indiana is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to recruiting, selecting, developing, and promoting employees based on individual ability and job performance. Reasonable accommodations may be available to enable individuals with disabilities to complete the application and interview process as well as perform the essential functions of a role. If you require reasonable accommodations to complete this application, you can request assistance by contacting the Indiana State Personnel Department at
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