Job Description
Job ID: 26959
Agency: Department of Transportation / Division of Operations
Location: Rapid City
Salary: $31.66 - $37.43, depending on experience
Pay Grade: E1 - E2
Closing Date: 05/22/2024
This is a full-time position with the Department of Transportation. For more information about the Department of Transportation, please visit http://dot.sd.gov .
Introduction:
Ready for a rewarding career that provides exciting and meaningful work? Looking for a place that values innovation and teamwork? In need of schedules and benefits that make it possible to both support and enjoy your family?
As a member of our close-knit team, you will experience meaningful, exciting, and empowering work every day, all while maintaining balance with your personal life. That's because the South Dakota Department of Transportation puts our employees first in everything we do. With generous PTO policies and 11 paid holidays, you can advance your career and still have time to make memories with friends and family. Our team members receive on-the-job training and some of the best benefits available, with 6% matching retirement contributions and health insurance options that include a $0 premium employee-only coverage plan.
Keep the most important things in your life your top priority with a long-term career that makes it possible.
Benefits you won't find anywhere else: - 6% matching retirement funding
- Accruable sick leave and vacation leave
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- On-the-job training
- Advancement paths for all positions
- Flexible scheduling
- HSA and low and high deductible health insurance plans
Job Description: This position will be a member of the Region Design team within the Rapid City Region.
The position requires good problem solving skills to design a safe and efficient transportation system. This position is involved in highway design and project delivery of highway construction plans to improve safety, condition, and capacity of the state highway system. Highway improvements for construction plans include grading, roadway surfacing, pipe culverts, guardrail, erosion control, and other miscellaneous highway assets.
This position will be working in an office environment, typically 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday. Occasional outdoor project meetings are needed. Limited overnight travel for meetings will occur.
What the SDDOT Offers: - Hiring incentive
- Health insurance (zero-cost premium plan, low and high deductible plans, and single and family plans)
- Well-being program
- Employee assistance program
- Dental
- Vision
- Health savings account
- Free basic life insurance policy
- Membership in the South Dakota Retirement System with partial state match
- Paid leave (15 vacation days per year)
- Sick leave (14 days per year)
- Paid family leave (12 weeks for birth and adoption of child, equivalent to 40 hours per week)
- Military leave (15 days per year)
- 11 paid holidays
- Longevity Pay
- Semimonthly Pay periods
- Eligibility for meal per diems
- Flexible scheduling
- Paid overtime (if applicable)
Duties and Responsibilities:
Duties may include, but are not limited design development to meet the requirements of the project scope and prepare design plans based on department standards, manuals, and engineering knowledge. A design review by peers will be performed on the project plans. Recommendations, technical assistance, and corrective actions will be necessary to support construction staff and assist with contractor questions.
Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge:
- highway design methods, processes, and sequences needed to deliver project plans (preferred but not required);
- standard terminology, techniques, and practices of drafting and design of highway construction plans;
- engineering and scientific principles, practices, and methods as applicable to highway design.
Skills:
- operate various software related to highway design (Microsoft based, OpenRoads Designer, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, etc.);
- read and interpret highway construction plans, right of way plats, design guides and regulatory documents;
- provide technical information and interpretation to permitting agencies, consultants, contractors and SDDOT staff.
Abilities:
- display high standards of ethical conduct and demonstrate behaviors in line with SDDOT values;
- attend to all details of assignments and complete work properly, accurately, and thoroughly;
- establish and maintain effective working relationships with department personnel, contractors, consultants and the general public
- exercise sound judgment with making decisions and take prompt, decisive action
- listen attentively to others and effectively communicate information both verbally and in writing
- work cooperatively with others and promote a friendly work climate in order to achieve department goals
Position Requirements:
Engineer 1: Only applicants with a bachelor's of science degree in civil engineering or related field will be considered. Passed the Fundamentals of Engineering exam.
Engineer 2: A bachelor's of science degree in civil engineering or related field plus 2-3 years of experience equivalent to a E2 in the Engineering Career Band. Experience in highway construction or design. Possess or be eligible to obtain Professional Engineer license.
Compensation:
The total compensation of Hourly Wage + State/Federal Benefits for a typical year for entry level Region Design Engineer is approximately $84,474.00 annually.
Join the South Dakota Department of Transportation! View more about this opportunity here: https://youtu.be/WdCQix5wB8A .
This position is eligible for Veterans' Preference per ARSD 55:10:02:08.
The State of South Dakota does not sponsor work visas for new or existing employees. All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete an Employment Eligibility Verification, Form I-9. The State of South Dakota as an employer will be using E-Verify to complete employment eligibility verification upon hire.
The State of South Dakota offers employer paid health insurance plus eleven paid holidays, generous vacation and sick leave accrual, dental, vision, and other insurance options, and retirement benefits. You can view our benefits information at https://bhr.sd.gov/job-seekers/work-for-state-government/ . This position is a member of Class A retirement under SDRS.
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You must apply online, emailed resumes or submissions will not be accepted.
South Dakota Bureau of Human Resources
Telephone: 605.773.3148 Email: careers@state.sd.us
http://bhr.sd.gov/workforus
"An Equal Opportunity Employer"