Highway Engineer
Oswego County Human Resources Department
Oswego, NYJob$139–163K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Oswego County Highway Department is hiring a Highway Engineer to perform professional engineering work involving the design, maintenance, and repair of County highways and roads. Applicants must meet one of two education-and-experience paths: a master’s degree in civil engineering with five years of qualifying engineering experience, or a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with six years of qualifying experience. A New York State professional engineer license is also required.
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The Oswego County Highway Department has an immediate opening for a Highway Engineer to perform professional engineering work involving responsibility for the design, maintenance and repair of County highways and roads. Qualifications: Possession of a masters degree in civil engineering and five (5) years of engineering experience which shall have included bridge and highway design and construction.; OR bachelor's degree in civil engineering and six (6) years of experience as listed above. SPECIAL REQUIREMENT: NYS license as a professional engineer. Salary Range: $138,771 to $162,558 per year plus competitive benefit package including: health, vision, dental and life insurance; NYS Retirement; and Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. Salary negotiable to be commensurate with experience and qualifications. To Apply: Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Please visit our website to complete an online application or submit a paper application to the address below. Oswego County Human Resources Department 46 East Bridge Street Oswego, New York 13126 (315) 349-8209 Fax: (315) 349-8254 Email: [email protected] Web: www.oswegocountyNY.gov/humanresources AA/EEO EMPLOYER
How this job compares
Set against the 398 open Highway Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$139–163K/yr
- New York median$95–152K/yr30 salary ranges
- US median$87–152K/yr354 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $151K, is 26% above the New York median midpoint ($120K) — in the top quarter of Highway Engineer salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 35 open Highway Engineer jobs in New York and 398 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Fisher Associates10 open
- CDM Smith6 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience — less than three in four Highway Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 10 years, across 377 postings).
- Education
- 84 of the 398 open Highway Engineer jobs (21%) 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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