Highway Asset Manager (WMS2)
Headquarters – Statewide Opportunity 

Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Capital Program Development and Management division is currently hiring a Highway Asset Manager. This position can be located anywhere in Washington State based on candidate preference and overall business needs. The objective of this position is to facilitate a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and improving physical assets. The Highway Asset Manager is one of the Department's experts in the following asset management/prioritization principles: needs analysis, cost benefit analysis, life cycle cost analysis, and modal and asset investment trade-off analysis. The top candidate selected for this position will have professional experience in asset management, transportation engineering, transportation finance, program management, project delivery and capital budgeting. With thoughtful and precise judgement, the incumbent will help manage the statewide prioritization process used to transition highway projects from planning level proposals through the scoping and project summary phases of project development. To effectively perform these activities, the incumbent must possess a strong understanding of project prioritization methods, state project prioritization planning and programming statutes, federal program statues, scoping development and engineering practices, and rules, and process and practice of statewide transportation planning is required. This understanding is used to identify investment strategies for managing highway assets at the lowest life cycle cost and are the foundation from which prioritized investment recommendations are presented to executive management.