This position is assigned to the Planning Section and completes preliminary engineering duties associated with the development of the 6-Year program and project scoping duties related to the North Central Region’s State Trunk Highway Improvement Program, Backbone program, and Local Highway Improvement program. Under general supervision of the supervisor and the programming engineer, this position analyzes Pavement Maintenance Decision Support System (PMDSS) data and verifies improvement recommendations, and it also recommends project segments to be added into the region’s improvement program based on engineering data. This includes using engineering judgements to verify improvement recommendations with deficiency data, develop major bid item estimates, and calculate quantities associated with those estimates.  The position may also be assigned to develop environmental, resiliency, and tribal coordination documents associated with final Scope certification and documentation.  The position will also track and report the expenditure of allocated funding to assure it is spent in a timely and transparent manner, as well as to ensure that state and federal requirements are met.

Working as a member of the Planning section’s programming team, this position provides region-level program management expertise, analysis, reporting, tracking of activities in the development, implementation, and management of the region’s 6-Year State Trunk Highway Improvement Program, the State Backbone program, as well as identification of other long-range state highway improvement needs. This position, in coordination with other members of the Planning team and staff from other business areas, provides analysis, reporting, tracking of activities in the development and implementation of the Surface Transportation Programs: STP-Urban, STP-Rural and Local Bridge programs, as well as the TAP program and TEA programs.

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