Transportation Systems Analyst - Kanawha County

The Transportation Systems Analyst performs full-performance level work researching, analyzing, and planning the impact of, or bidding highway construction and maintenance projects. Duties include creating, editing, and maintaining excel report template files, and ensuring quality assurance for scripts and report data. Additional duties may include assisting with the development of automated reporting scripts, assisting with development of reporting web applications, and maintaining web application users and permissions. May manage grant programs. Position has latitude to independently choose procedures and guidelines to apply to the tasks. Complexity of duties are varied, may involve different and unrelated methods and processes, however work is reviewed upon completion. The distinguishing factor is full-performance level of work, as well as training lower level analysts in this series. Experience with Excel, Google Sheets, and Data Entry & Quality Assurance desired. Programming experience (Python, JavaScript) preferred. Travel may be required to collect data and conduct field studies. Performs other related duties as required.  

Minimum Requirements

REQUIRED TRAINING/EDUCATION 

• Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university.

• Substitution: Experience, as described below, may be substituted for the required training/education through an established formula.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE 

• Two (2) years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid experience in the research, analysis, planning, bidding, or administration of highway construction and  maintenance projects or managing transit grant programs.

• Substitution: Successful completion of graduate coursework from a regionally accredited college or university in transportation, urban or regional planning, engineering, economics, statistics, mathematics, geography, business administration, public administration, environmental studies, history, archeology, or the physical or natural sciences may substitute for the required experience through an established formula.