Professional Engineer 1 – Development Review Coordinator
Oregon Department of Transportation
Delivery and Operations Division – Region 2
Planning & Developing Unit
Salem
 
Salary: $6,454 - $10,013
 
The role: 
Are you a licensed engineer? Join us as our development review coordinator! In this role, you will review, evaluate and coordinate replies to transportation impacts from proposed public and private development, land use, comprehensive plan amendments and zone changes. In this key role, you will also identify and recommend appropriate improvement measures for the highway system and insure consistent implementation of the statewide access management program. Apply today!
 
Our first application screening is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. on Monday, April 15, 2024. We encourage interested applicants not to delay in applying.
 
We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for our positions. We hope you’ll join us on our path to increasing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging through our values, commitments, strategies and actions.
 
Before applying, visit our applicant information website to learn more about our process. If you are a current State of Oregon employee, you must apply through your employee Workday profile.

A day in the life:

• Receive all local land use actions and coordinate replies as necessary.
• Advise if development proposal requires submittal of a Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA).
• Provide preliminary review of traffic-impact studies for proposed developments, land use actions and zone-changes and recommend mitigation measures commensurate with the impacts.
• Provide technical assistance to the district in evaluating access requests and recommend the appropriate action.
• Prepare permit findings as appropriate.
• Coordinate technical plan reviews through the region tech center and headquarters as appropriate.
• Conduct field investigations for access management and development review.
• Assist to develop policy and administrative rules for access management and facility operations.
• Assist with the development of statewide training plan for access management including processes, manuals, guidelines, etc. for implementation of access management statewide.
• Work is performed primarily in an office setting. Hybrid work options available.
• Extensive travel required throughout region and occasional overnight, weekend and statewide travel.
• To request a copy of the position description, which includes all duties and working conditions, please email ODOTRecruitment@odot.oregon.gov.

What’s in it for you:

• Work/life balance, 11 paid holidays a year, flexible work schedules, paid leave and so much more. Learn more about working at the Oregon Department of Transportation and the benefits we offer.
• Competitive benefits packages which can be estimated using our compensation calculator.
• Comprehensive and equitable base salary offer within the listed range based on your experience, skills and education. The salary range listed is the non-PERS participating rate. If you are already a participating PERS member or once you become PERS eligible, the salary range will increase by 6%. Please review the Classification and Compensation page for more details.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness opportunity!

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Minimum qualifications:
A valid professional engineer’s (PE) license in civil, structural, or transportation-related engineering.

Note: If registered in another state, successful applicants will be required to obtain professional registration in the state of Oregon within six months of hire.

Special qualifications:
Driving is an essential function of this position. You must have a valid driver license and an acceptable driving record. We will conduct pre-employment driving records checks on our final candidate(s). Your license does not have to be issued in Oregon to be considered.
 
What we’d like to see:
If you have these attributes, let us know in your application materials! It's how we will choose whom to move forward! You do not need to have all these qualities to be eligible for this position. We may also use transferable skills, experience, education and alignment with ODOT values to help us decide who will move forward.

• Demonstrated experience to projects impacting the state highway system. This experience could be in traffic operations and safety analysis, project management, project design or other engineering related responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience in the development review process.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating existing and proposed highway approaches using guidance from Oregon administrative rule, technical bulletins, state and local agency design standards.
• Demonstrated experience in traffic engineering and access management principles.

 
Learn more and apply:
Our first application screening is scheduled for 8 a.m. on Monday, April 15, 2024. We encourage interested applicants not to delay in applying.
Please note that we can only accept applications through our website.
For questions, call 503-779-9733 or email ODOTRecruitmentJB@odot.oregon.gov.
ODOT is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer