Fish Passage Delivery Engineer (TE4)
State of WashingtonAbout the role
Posting number: 26DOT-HQ-04469
Department: Dept. of Transportation
Division: Headquarters
Job classification: TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER 4
Posting type: Open & Promotional
Categories: Engineering, Environmental Services, Transportation
Summary
About WSDOT
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is a multimodal agency with a global reputation for excellence. Our dedicated workforce plans, designs, builds, and operates an integrated transportation system that safely and efficiently moves people and goods throughout the state. In addition to maintaining over 20,000 lane miles of state highway and 4,100 bridges, WSDOT leads an award-winning Active Transportation Plan, manages the world's longest floating bridge, and operates the largest ferry system in the nation!
The Opportunity
WSDOT is seeking a Fish Passage Delivery Engineer to support the statewide Fish Passage Barrier Correction Program, a major initiative with significant environmental, legal, and transportation impacts. In this role, you will help advance fish passage projects by supporting program delivery strategies, coordinating complex engineering work, and helping teams navigate challenges throughout project development and delivery.
Working with engineers, technical specialists, consultants, regional teams, and external partners, you will contribute to solutions that bring together multiple engineering disciplines and support effective project delivery. You will also have the opportunity to help shape fish passage policies and guidance, influence program strategies, and support projects that advance WSDOT's transportation and environmental commitments.
What to Expect
Among the varied range of responsibilities held within this role, you will:
- Support development of the Fish Passage Program Delivery Plan by developing and organizing project information used to prioritize fish passage projects and shape program delivery strategies.
- Monitor delivery plan implementation by helping identify risks, obstacles, and opportunities that could affect project delivery and supporting strategies to keep projects moving forward.
- Support delivery plan updates by coordinating with regional program managers, regional leadership, and technical offices to initiate and communicate changes to internal and external partners.
- Support statewide project scoping by helping manage consultant work, develop scopes of work and task orders, and coordinate resources needed to advance fish passage projects.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering efforts involving Hydraulics, Bridge and Structures, Geotechnical, Traffic, Environmental, Real Estate, Utilities, Design, Construction, and other technical disciplines.
- Help solve complex engineering challenges that arise during project scoping, pre-design, project development, design, procurement, and construction.
- Facilitate technical discussions by bringing together information from multiple engineering disciplines and helping teams develop practical solutions to project challenges.
- Support fish passage policy development by collaborating with Design, Construction, Hydraulics, Environmental Services, Active Transportation, and other offices to identify and address gaps in policy and design guidance.
- Develop and support program policies and guidance that help guide the design and construction of fish passage projects.
Qualifications
To be considered for this opportunity, the following competencies are required:
- Transportation Engineering: Demonstrates knowledge of transportation engineering principles, project development, engineering design, construction administration, and project delivery processes.
- Engineering Judgment: Evaluates technical issues, identifies project risks, develops practical solutions, and makes well-supported recommendations.
- Standards and Requirements: Interprets and applies engineering policies, standards, manuals, environmental requirements, and design criteria to transportation projects.
- Collaboration: Coordinates complex work across multiple engineering disciplines, organizational units, consultants, and external partners to achieve program objectives.
- Relationship Building: Builds collaborative working relationships with diverse stakeholders while facilitating technical discussions and resolving complex issues.
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