
E281 Transportation Engineer II or III
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Fort Worth, TXJobSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Performs complex transportation engineering work across areas such as planning, project development and design, construction, transportation and traffic operations, or maintenance. The role ensures compliance with applicable laws, policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines and involves contact with governmental officials and private entities. Employees work independently on assignments, referring unusual issues to a supervisor.
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Performs complex transportation engineering work in one or more functional areas such as planning, project development and design, construction, transportation/traffic operations and/or maintenance. Ensures compliance with applicable federal and state laws, policies, procedures, standards and guidelines. Work requires contact with governmental officials and private entities. Employees at this level perform work independently on assignments; however all unusual issues are referred to the supervisor.Essential Duties:Statistical analysis methodologies and reporting proceduresStandards and specifications for bridges and other transportation structuresConstruction engineering policies and proceduresGeometric design relationships to traffic operations, maintenance and constructionUtilities such as water and electrical servicesEvaluates and makes recommendations for developing, monitoring, and updating integrated project plans and schedules so that projects may be executed in the most efficient and effective manner possible.Utilizes project management principles in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closing for complex transportation projects.Monitors consultants' progress and work quality; checks invoices and associated documents; prepares supplemental agreements.Monitors contractors' compliance with plans and specifications.Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 877 open Transportation Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$87–152K/yr512 salary ranges
- US median$32–47/hr41 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 73 open Transportation Engineer jobs in Texas and 877 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (this employer)39 open
- Jacobs7 open
- Burns & McDonnell6 open
- Experience
- Transportation Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 10 years (675 postings).
- Education
- 471 of the 877 open Transportation Engineer jobs (54%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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