
E282 Transportation Engineer III- Materials and Tests Divison
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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Job overview
Performs advanced and complex transportation engineering work across areas such as planning, project development and design, construction, operations, and maintenance. The role evaluates transportation products, investigates materials failures, reviews test data, and analyzes statewide materials conditions. It also interprets maintenance standards and develops reports, specifications, and test procedures. The employee establishes work plans and priorities and may lead and coordinate the work of others.
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Full job description
Performs advanced and 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 establish their own work plan and priorities to meet set objectives. Issues are rarely referred to the supervisor but are handled at the occurrence.Essential Duties:Research and analysis methodologiesApplying engineering principles, practices and methods in job responsibilitiesPlanning, assigning, directing, coordinating and reviewing the work of professional, administrative and technical employeesLeading, assigning, reviewing and monitoring the work of othersPreparing technical/statistical reportsMaintaing a safe work relationship Training in a classroom, office or field environmentDeveloping and giving presentationsEvaluates the performance of new transportation products.Interprets maintenance standards, rules, methods, procedures, practices and policies.Investigates materials failures or fabrication problems; reviews test data and assists in determining cause of failing materials.Serve as a lead worker and the related tasks.Performs engineering analysis of statewide materials conditions and develops reportsWrites reports, specifications and test procedures
How this job compares
Set against the 861 open Transportation Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$87–152K/yr506 salary ranges
- US median$32–47/hr42 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 68 open Transportation Engineer jobs in Texas and 861 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 (662 postings).
- Education
- 484 of the 861 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 27, 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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