Transportation Manager

Job Posting Title

Transportation Manager

Agency

345 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Supervisory Organization

Assistant Chief of Right-of-Way & Utilities Administration 2

Job Posting End Date (Continuous if Blank)

March 21, 2025

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.

Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank)

Full/Part-Time

Full time

Job Type

Regular

Compensation

$93,600 Salary

Job Description

This position is located at the Oklahoma Department of Transportation Central Office in the Right-of-Ways Utilities Branch.

Full Time in office
40 hours a week
Exempt
Background and Drug Tests required

Basic Purpose

The Transportation II Utility Branch Manager is responsible for directing the activities of the Utilities Branch, ensuring the delivery of quality services, and maintaining on-time performance. This position requires a high-level understanding of utility relocation within state highway right-of-way and construction constraints for statewide projects, along with motivating subordinate staff, providing necessary training, and representing the Department in interactions with various stakeholders. Applicants should be familiar with transportation construction, design, and utilities.

Level Descriptor

At this level, incumbents are responsible for performing supervisory or advanced transportation management work. They may serve as resident transportation managers or direct a transportation branch within the Department of Transportation or Oklahoma Transportation Authority.

Education and Experience

Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor’s degree and three years of experience in transportation-related work PLUS one additional year of qualifying experience as a supervisor or an equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting one year of qualifying experience for each year of the required education.

Note: No substitution may be made for the required supervisory capacity experience.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Competencies

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities required at this level include knowledge of technical engineering practices and principles; management principles, engineering plans, and specifications; right-of-way activities; all aspects of field roadway construction; highway contracts administration supervisory principles and practices; and transportation systems and planning principles. 

Ability to design and implement construction plans, organize projects, establish and maintain effective working relationships with others, collect and organize data, conduct inspections, and direct the activities of a transportation branch is required.

Equal Opportunity Employment

The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.

Current active State of Oklahoma employees must apply for open positions internally through the Workday Jobs Hub.