Highway Construction Project Managers oversee all aspects of the building process, working closely with engineers and architects to develop plans, establish timetables, and determine labor and material costs. Highway construction project managers are responsible for ensuring the project is completed on budget and within scope. They also hire and manage subcontractors and employees, gather permits, and ensure all aspects of the project are up to code. The main responsibilities of highway construction project managers are overall project planning, distributing resources, time management, risk management, creating benchmarks, managing the budget, managing staff, and managing relationships with key stakeholders.
Engineering
Highway Maintenance Technician II
Highway Maintenance Technicians are responsible for maintaining local roads and streets in a given area, ensuring that requests for repairs are actioned and that all highways and footways are well maintained. Also, Technicians design highways maintenance schemes to cover resurfacing, drainage repairs and improvements to roads and footpaths, inspect roads to identify structural defects and safety issues, calculate costs of maintenance, analyze the impact maintenance work will have on the environment, investigate maintenance requests submitted by members of the public. To produce technical drawings and specifications, Technicians use CAD (computer-aided design) technology. Lastly, Highway Maintenance Technicians oversee practical maintenance of roads and streets, direct traffic during repair operations, perform roadside landscaping including clearing weeds and trimming trees, sweep debris from surfaces and structures, spread sand, asphalt, gravel, and clay, clean and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
Construction Engineer
A Highway Construction Engineer is responsible for overseeing roadway projects to completion, on time and within budget. Duties include field layout of projects, general inspection, project management, working with staff, and communicating with clients. The Engineer may be called upon to assist in design engineering duties including: preparing reports, plans, and specifications; researching design standards and code requirements; and conducting field investigations of design problems. The Engineer collaborates with other engineers, technicians, planners, and surveyors.
Other responsibilities typically include:
- Control and/or review all project forecasts, schedules, cost estimates, and reports.
- Prepare construction cost estimates, project budgets, schedules, or specifications for labor or materials.
- Prepare reports and conduct studies of engineering methods, codes, processes, and materials.
- Participate in contract bidding, negotiation, or administration.
- Responsible for quality control. Investigate or test construction materials to determine compliance with specifications or standards including environmental standards.
- Inspect completed transportation projects to ensure safety or compliance with applicable standards or regulations including environmental regulations.
- Confer with contractors, utility companies, and the public.
- Conduct feasibility and operating studies aimed at evaluating alternative innovative designs.
- Develop plans to deconstruct damaged or obsolete roadways or other transportation structures.
Maintenance Engineer, Bridge
Maintenance Engineers, Bridge focus their work on directing the city-wide bridge inspection, maintenance and repair program and the operation of bridges. Maintenance engineers, bridge are responsible for planning the overall inspection, maintenance and repair program for City-owned bridges and recommending priorities for contracted repair work. They also act as assistant to the Assistant Chief Highway Engineer Maintenance and serves in this capacity as required by absence and are responsible for directing subordinate supervisors, contact with other agencies and the provision of engineering interpretations to resolve bridge maintenance and repair problems are of major significance to the work. Work is performed under the direction of an engineering superior.
Maintenance Engineer, State DOT
Maintenance Engineers, State DOT, are a specialized branch of civil engineering. Maintenance engineers work in conjunction with urban planners and other engineers in traffic management and transportation to look after the state of our highways. Maintenance engineers, State DOT, have a responsibility for monitoring planning schemes, construction and repair work. Their work is both office-based and on-site on public highways. The standard working week is 37 hours but there will be weekend and evening work required as well. Special clothing such as hard hats, strong boots and visible clothing is provided. The engineer will always carry tools and equipment on site visits. In general, jobs in highway maintenance require not only oversight of the actual condition of the roads but a duty to promote good relations with members of the public, parish councils and consultants.