
E284 Transportation Engineer V-Corpus Christi Design Office
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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The Transportation Engineer performs highly advanced and complex engineering work across areas such as planning, project development and design, construction, transportation and traffic operations, maintenance, and research. The role ensures compliance with applicable laws, policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines, and involves contact with governmental officials and private entities. Employees at this level are virtually self-supervising and directly accountable for their work product.
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Full job description
Performs highly advanced and complex transportation engineering work in one or more functional areas such as planning, project development and design, construction, transportation/traffic operations, maintenance and research. 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 are virtually self-supervising and assume direct accountability for the work product.Essential Duties:Monitors contract performance, evaluates contract deliverables, reviews billing documentation, monitors the consultant'scompliance with the terms of the contract, and prepares and delivers a written evaluation of the consultant's performance.Performs and coordinates the review and processing of Plans, Specifications Estimates (PSE) submission, special specifications or special provisions.Performs highly advanced and complex engineering design work such as development of layouts, sketches, plans, specifications, estimates and contracts.Reviews and revises schematics, PSE, project designs, shop drawings and field changes for traffic control devices, signals, signs, markings, detours, traffic control plans, electrical distribution and roadway lighting and traffic management systems.Reviews shop drawings, plans, specifications, estimates, supplemental agreements and change order requests.Trains engineering staff.Updates, reviews, monitors, and reviews requests for changes to plans, manuals and standard sheets.Writes/reviews proposals and estimates for letting.Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 865 open Transportation Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$87–152K/yr511 salary ranges
- US median$33–47/hr42 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 68 open Transportation Engineer jobs in Texas and 865 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (this employer)32 open
- Olsson9 open
- Jacobs7 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 (671 postings).
- Education
- 482 of the 865 open Transportation Engineer jobs (56%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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