DOT Engineering Chief - Career Executive

DOT Engineering Chief - Career Executive

State of Wisconsin

Apply your leadership skills and professional engineering experience as a DOT Engineering Chief with the Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation System Development, South West Region (SWR). This position can be headquartered in Madison, WI or LaCrosse, WI.

• Substantial leave time including at least 3.5 weeks of paid leave time to start, 9 paid holidays, and 130 hours of sick time that roll over each year.
• Excellent and affordable health, vision, and dental benefits (health plan options start at just $49/month for single plans and $122/month for family plans after two months of employment)
• A casual office atmosphere, flexible work schedules, and telework options depending on the position’s requirements
• An exceptional pension plan with employer match and lifetime retirement payment, plus an optional tax advantaged 457 retirement savings plan
• Well Wisconsin Wellness Program
• A free and confidential employee assistance program that offers employees and their immediate family dependents a variety of tools, resources, and professional consultation services to support their health, goals, and overall well‑being
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As a member of Region Management, you will perform highly responsible administrative and managerial functions in the development, implementation, and evaluation of important and complex policy, budgetary and organization components of the department's transportation engineering programs. This position will manage the Transportation Improvement Projects program identification, development, design, pre‑construction, and construction administration activities. It has managerial responsibility for program management planning, policy development and implementation, and exercises line responsibility for program management, along with employee supervision.

The responsibilities require a high level of managerial, professional, and technical judgement.

This position is in schedule-range (81‑02) with an annual salary of $118,872-$122,221, plus excellent benefits. A 2‑year career executive trial period is required. Pay for current state employees will be set in accordance with the Wisconsin State Compensation Plan.

WisDOT does not sponsor work visas. Any appointment made will be contingent on the applicant being able to prove valid status to work in the United States. WisDOT is not an E‑verify employer. Prior to any appointments for positions filled from this announcement, candidates may be subject to a comprehensive criminal background check which may include FBI fingerprinting. This position offers a hybridized work schedule.

The position will be headquartered at and required to work from one of the DTSD state office buildings at least 3 days per week. Employees working a hybrid work schedule are still expected to telework from within the State of Wisconsin.

Minimum requirement is possession of a valid Professional Engineering registration and the ability to obtain a Wisconsin PE registration within 3 months if registration is from another state.

• Experience working with transportation engineering principles, practices, programs, budgets, and project management (design, construction, planning development, operation, and/or maintenance of transportation or similar systems).
• Experience collaborating with a diverse group of stakeholders including external and internal parties.
• Experience leading a team of professional staff in formal or informal capacity, coaching, mentoring, reviewing/analyzing work, assigning workloads, directing work, assessing employee performance, motivating staff/team.
• Experience managing/supervising employees.
• Experience managing multiple complex transportation programs concurrently.
• Experience with data‑driven decision making, process improvement, risk analysis.

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