Geotechnical Engineer

Job Description

Are you looking to build your professional strengths and value an inclusive, collaborative, flexible, engaging work environment? As our newest Geotechnical Engineer | Transportation Engineer Specialist (TES), you’ll spend your day working on complex geotechnical issues, geotechnical designs to consult with our Bridges and Structures Bureau, Construction and Maintenance Bureau, Facilities and our local counties, cities and municipalities finding innovative solutions that are vital to fulfilling our?Mission -? Making Lives Better Through Transportation .?

We are looking for someone who will demonstrate, with their actions and behaviors, the Iowa Department of Transportation’s five CORE values: Safety First, People Matter, Customer Focused, Servant Leadership, and Integrity Without Exception .

Location: Ames, Iowa – Design Bureau/Soils Design Section

Shift Requirements: Days, Monday through Friday. Flexible work hours available. Possibility to telework part-time after completion of an initial 6-month probationary period.

Our most successful candidate will have a thorough understanding of the highway design process necessary to develop highway projects from concept to construction. You also must have a comprehensive understanding of advanced geotechnical engineering including retaining wall design, specialized foundations application and design, soil stability determinations and remediation, and advanced geotechnical interpretations associated with highway and bridge projects.

As a Geotechnical Engineer | (TES) You will be responsible for advanced geotechnical investigations, analysis, recommendations, and designs for transportation projects throughout the State of Iowa. These include geotechnical engineering for roadways, subgrades, bridges, culverts, buildings, and fill embankments.

Additional Duties Will Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Advising consultants on non-standard, highly complex subsurface investigations, analyses, and geotechnical designs, to include structural bearing analysis, retaining walls, subsurface treatments, settlements, stabilities, and drainage.
• Reviewing highly advanced laboratory and field investigation programs under contract with the Iowa DOT including their accuracy and applicability as well as adherence to standard roadway design plans.
• Assisting with emergency response, disaster coordination needed as a result of major rain and flooding events.
  
  

Special Requirements:

• Must possess and maintain registration as a professional engineer in Iowa, as established by the Iowa Professional Licensing Bureau’s Engineering and Land Survey Board as an Iowa Professional Engineer in Active status.
• Maintain a valid Iowa Driver’s License.
  
  

The Iowa Department of Transportation is proud to be a partner with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Through this partnership, DOT engineers are granted membership at a largely discounted price, as well as discounts for conferences and continuing education through the ASCE. We are excited to offer this benefit and to have you join this partnership with us! If you're interested in learning more about this benefit, please visit https://www.asce.org/membership

What We Offer YOU

• Competitive pay and benefits package including health, dental, flexible spending, and life insurance.
• Insurance benefits start first of the month following 30 days of employment. 2024 health and dental insurance premiums can be found here .
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Paid time off effective immediately - biweekly vacation, separate sick leave, accruals rollover on a yearly basis, and 9 paid holidays per year.
• Iowa Public Employee Retirement System (IPERS) Retirement Package with employer match.
• Optional 401A plan with employer contributions.
• Employee Discount Programs from variety of vendors (vision, cellular, fitness, recreation, season passes, travel, counseling; legal, financial).
  
  

We encourage you to view more about the State of Iowa Employee benefits and costs at the State of Iowa Employee Benefits Website !

You have the freedom to flourish in Iowa – Apply today!

The Iowa Department of Transportation is an equal opportunity employer. If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing any screening, interviewing, pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the selection process, please direct your request to the Affirmative Action & Equal Employment Opportunity (AA/EEO) Officer at: [email protected]

Reasonable accommodation such as: interpreter, translator, written materials, modified equipment / devices, ADA access, etc. This does not include scheduling needs.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:

• All of the following (a and b):
• Licensure as a professional engineer; and
• Two years of full-time professional work experience in transportation engineering or civil engineering.
• All of the following (a, b, and c):
• Licensure as a professional engineer; and
• One year of full-time professional work experience in transportation engineering or civil engineering; and
• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master’s degree in chemical, civil, construction, environmental, materials, structural, or transportation engineering; engineering management; or a field closely related to transportation engineering.
• Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes one year of full-time work as a Transportation Engineer.
  
  

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Additional Qualification Requirements

Prior to appointment, applicants must possess active licensure as a professional engineer by the Iowa Engineering & Land Surveying Examining Board.