Pavement Manager - Resident Engineer; PE

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• New employees are paid biweekly – 26 biweekly pay periods in a year.

CDOT employees make a difference by providing freedom, connection, and experience to the traveling public while keeping them safe. The State of Colorado offers competitive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, and other benefits. CDOT offers PERA retirement, optional 401(k) and generous paid time off, career growth, tuition reimbursement, and professional development. Perks include the Colorado Employee Assistance Program, wellness, credit union membership, and employee discount program.

Some positions qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

Licensed professional engineers with civil or transportation engineering experience are needed in Grand Junction. Pavement managers track and analyze pavement distresses, collaborate to improve performance and cost modeling, and maintain regional surface treatment asset plans. They design surface treatment projects, perform pavement design, prepare material recommendations, and support preconstruction for the region’s three design teams.

• Analyze current and historical pavement distress and project data with computer modeling software to prepare a list of potential projects for the Regional annual resurfacing plan.
• Validate discontinuities in distress data, identify and correct discrepancies, and determine required investigation and analysis to support the regional pavement management plan.
• Communicate complex technical information regarding the pavement management software program and its implications to upper management.
• Apply CDOT procedures, specifications, guidelines, engineering principles, PE license, and experience to design and select the most economical stabilized pavement section, preparing engineering design and cost analysis methods for various surfacing categories.
• Perform Life Cycle Cost Analyses (LCCA) as guided by the Pavement Design Manual, researching current LCCA standard practices found in CDOT’s manual.
• Provide design staff with material recommendations and review plans and specifications to ensure inclusion of recommendations.
• Attend scoping, Field Inspection Review, Final Office Review, and other design meetings, as well as monthly status meetings.
• Serve as pre-construction project manager for assigned projects, setting up and managing the Project Development Plan (PDP) and design meetings (Scoping, FIR, FOR).
• Prepare plans, specifications, and estimates for assigned surface treatment projects and stamp as a licensed Professional Engineer.
• Track pavement treatments and compare data to predictions made by pavement design and management programs.
• Prepare and deliver reports, presentations, and training on pavement management and related topics as requested by the Region Materials Engineer.

• Primary hours: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm, Monday‑Friday.
• Approximately 25% field work, 75% office.
• Travel required during work hours to project sites, meetings, and training.
• Weekends, holidays, evenings, or night work may be required.
• Occasional overnight travel throughout Colorado.
• Work in proximity to heavy traffic, and in hot or cold weather conditions.
• Work on variable terrain at project sites.
• Operate CDOT vehicles.

• Current, valid licensure as a Professional Engineer from the Colorado State Board of Licensure for Architects, Professional Engineers, and Professional Land Surveyors.
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  • Current, valid licensure as a Professional Engineer from another U.S. state’s Board of Licensure. If meeting qualifications with an out‑of‑state PE license, obtain a Colorado PE license within six months of hire.
• Must pass pre‑employment screening, including social security number trace, criminal records check, public court records check, educational records, and driving records checks.
• A current valid driver’s license is required for any CDOT position that requires operating a state or personal motor vehicle.