Bridge Engineering Assistant

https://vimeo.com/797094764 (Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities - Bridge Video)

What you will be doing:
The Bridge Engineering Assistant plays a hands-on role in managing and enhancing our state’s 1,067 bridges! You'll be involved in a variety of exciting tasks, from conducting bridge inspections and analyzing existing structures to designing new bridges and overseeing construction projects. Under the guidance of licensed engineers, you'll perform structural analysis, calculations, and prepare detailed plans, specifications, cost estimates, and reports. You'll also create structural details, calculate quantities, and draft specifications for construction contracts. Dive into a career where your skills will directly contribute to the safety and improvement of the State of Alaska's infrastructure!
 
Our organization, mission, and culture:
The Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is mission-focused with an organizational atmosphere that promotes excellence, integrity, teamwork, and public service. Alaska has over 5,600 miles of paved and gravel highways and 239 airports; all of which are critical infrastructure for meeting basic transportation needs throughout the state. This infrastructure plays a vital role in supporting our economy and serving communities.  

A position in the Bridge Section offers hands-on professional experience with a group of hard-working engineers who put safety first and are recognized nationally as experts in our field. The office has 25 staff members – small enough to be personal, but large enough to have a broad knowledge base in all subdisciplines of bridge engineering.

The benefits of joining our team:
Some advantages of starting your career in the Bridge Section are:
 

• Preparation for the PE exam – frequent trainings and mentoring towards licensure
• Combination of office and field assignments – all staff complete one or more summer inspection trips throughout the state lasting 1-2 weeks
• Diversity of projects – staff are encouraged to gain experience with all bridge types and aspects of design, including repairs, retrofits, and new design
• Opportunity to spend a summer on a bridge construction project somewhere in the state
• Support to get a drone pilot’s license and use drones for bridge inspection
• Work/life balance – 37.5-hour work week with paid overtime when needed
• Opportunities to be involved with bridge research projects that DOT&PF funds
• Attend and present at professional conferences.

This position provides flexible work hours, a competitive salary, personal leave and holidays, excellent health insurance coverage, and many other supplemental benefits such as deferred compensation and health care reimbursement accounts. Benefits are negotiated by the General Government Union (GGU).

The working environment you can expect:
This position is located within DOT&PF Headquarters in Juneau, at the DOT&PF 3-mile building on Channel Drive. The office work environment is "casual-professional", team-oriented, and friendly. Bridge inspection assignments can involve travel to all regions of Alaska. We can reach most of our bridges via major airlines and driving, but smaller aircraft, including float planes, are required to reach our remote bridge sites.

Juneau is in a temperate rainforest with steep-sided mountains, glaciers, and deep fjords within its boundaries. Outdoor recreational opportunities are abundant, and Juneau is famous for its spectacular scenery (even on the rainy days). Hiking, trail running, skiing, and cycling are popular pastimes.

For more information about living and loving Juneau, visit the following sites: http://www.traveljuneau.com and https://choosejuneau.org/
 
 Who we are looking for:
 We are looking for an individual with the following desired core competencies that will contribute to their success in this position:
 

• Structural Engineering: Knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, and methods related to the design and analysis of complex structures using a variety of materials. Structures may include aerospace systems or structures, and other determinate or indeterminate systems.
• Transportation Engineering: Knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, and methods applicable to planning, designing, and constructing of transportation systems including traffic analysis, signal analysis, highway capacity, pavement design, bridge construction, planning of transportation projects, environmental analysis of transportation facilities, and transportation network analysis.
• Problem Solving: Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.
• Oral Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Written Communication: Writes in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience.

Special Note:
Engineer-in-Training (Fundamentals of Engineering) Certification is preferred but not essential.

To view the general description and example of duties for positions please go to the following link: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs