Professional Engineer ; Civil​/Transportation NYHELPS

Duties Description The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is seeking a forward-thinking, highly motivated individual with strong communication skills and technical knowledge to help coordinate data analysis and reporting for the Structures Management Bureau within the Office of Structures. Responsibilities include researching and implementing program, process, and technological improvements/innovations that will:

You will work collaboratively with others to build data visualizations, interactive sites, and dashboards necessary for monitoring performance and reporting to leadership.

• Perform data analysis to support Bridge and Structure Management needs, including training NYSDOT personnel in data analysis techniques.
• Work with other data managers, stewards, custodians, or analysts to create a network for coordination on data activities.
• Participate in department meetings as needed to discuss data issues and concepts.
• Participate in identifying training needs and assist in the development and delivery of training to system users.
• Provide technical support to end users and agency management on all business functions and processes encompassed in the supported bridges/structures systems.
• Oversee client-side security and permissions of software systems.
• Recommend system enhancements, modifications, tools and other technical solutions to meet agency needs.
• Coordinate the compliance to federal submittals.
• Anticipate the impact that new or modified software will have on existing standards and practices.
• Select and perform testing methods to evaluate the success of both software upgrades and modifications.
• Meet with vendors on new and existing products, evaluate usefulness and cost of products and make recommendations.
• Research, investigate, and recommend technologies including web, mobile and other new or emerging technologies.
• Support software implementations and integrations with data knowledge and documentation.
• Oversee and report on data quality. Champion improvement to data quality, consistency, and accuracy.
• Track and fulfill data requests, map data use, and log critical issues.
• Create and maintain data dictionaries, governance, metadata, and indexes.
• Prepare data information reports for internal groups, present and discuss data issues.
• Run, update and recalibrate deterioration modeling, program optimization and individual structure lifecycle modeling, including updates to deterioration curves. Document updates to models and deterioration.

Responsibilities may include serving a role within the Incident Command System to support the department’s response to regional and statewide emergency situations.

This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS). To be considered for appointment through NY HELPS, or 55 b/c, candidates must meet the minimum qualifications for this position.

Open Competitive:

Qualifying degrees:
Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Technology, Construction Engineering, Construction Engineering Technology, Construction Engineering Management, Construction Engineering Management Technology, Geological Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydraulics Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Structural Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Transportation Planning and Engineering, or Engineering Science with a recognized concentration in any of the above listed engineering degrees.

Qualifying experience:
One year of full-time engineering experience with transportation projects related to highways/roadways, railroads, bridges, airports, waterways,…