Design & Construction Division Director (PCN 252264)

State of Alaska • Juneau or Anchorage or Fairbanks, AK

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Design and Construction Division Director is the department's statewide engineering leader responsible for guiding the design, construction, and delivery of safe, resilient, and constructable transportation projects across Alaska's vast and diverse landscape. This role involves leading one of the nation’s most distinctive transportation infrastructure programs, guiding statewide project delivery, aligning regional teams and technical resources, strengthening accountability, and modernizing how DOT&PF plans, designs, procures, and constructs infrastructure. The position may be located in Fairbanks, Anchorage, or Juneau.

Requirements

• Strategic, collaborative, and results-oriented engineering executive with demonstrated success leading complex transportation design, engineering, construction, and capital project delivery programs in geographically dispersed and operationally demanding environments.
• Significant professional engineering and executive leadership experience involving transportation infrastructure, design, construction, capital program management, fiscal stewardship, organizational performance, and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Ability to lead large, geographically dispersed professional and technical organizations.
• Ability to translate strategic priorities into clear expectations, accountable execution, and measurable results.
• Ability to balance ambitious capital programs with available workforce, funding, consultant capacity, and realistic delivery schedules.
• Ability to build alignment across planning, engineering, construction, procurement, finance, and operational functions.
• Ability to strengthen organizational accountability while empowering regional leaders and technical professionals.
• Ability to make sound, timely decisions involving complex technical, financial, regulatory, and public considerations.
• Ability to lead organizational change while sustaining project delivery and workforce engagement.
• Ability to communicate effectively in highly visible settings involving executive leadership, legislators, federal agencies, communities, and industry partners.
• Ability to develop high-performing teams and support workforce development, succession planning, and professional growth.
• Ability to promote safety, innovation, quality, integrity, and responsible stewardship of public resources.
• Substantial responsibility for engineering design and construction delivery.
• Experience modernizing engineering and project delivery practices, improving organizational performance, and integrating design, construction, procurement, operations, and financial management is highly valued.

Nice To Haves

• Experience modernizing engineering and project delivery practices, improving organizational performance, and integrating design, construction, procurement, operations, and financial management is highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Lead statewide engineering, design, construction, and project delivery functions across DOT&PF's capital program.
• Establish consistent statewide engineering standards, technical decision-making practices, design quality expectations, constructability requirements, and performance measures.
• Guide capital program execution, project readiness, resource alignment, risk management, and delivery accountability.
• Strengthen coordination across planning, environmental, design, right-of-way, utilities, procurement, construction, and property management functions.
• Support clear, constructable solicitations and improve procurement readiness, consultant utilization, and delivery reliability.
• Oversee division operations, including budgeting, fund management, administration, safety coordination, reporting, and organizational performance.
• Coordinate staffing, technical resources, consultant capacity, and delivery needs across regional teams.
• Partner with Maintenance & Operations leadership to ensure infrastructure investments support long-term maintainability, resilience, and lifecycle performance.
• Advance data-informed project delivery, performance metrics, forecasting, reporting, and modernization of project management systems.
• Represent DOT&PF before the Legislature, local governments, Tribal organizations, industry partners, regulatory agencies, and community stakeholders.
• Serve as a key member of the department's leadership team, advising on statewide engineering, design and construction strategy, technical and delivery risks, organizational coordination, and long-term transportation priorities.

Benefits

• Executive leadership responsibility with meaningful statewide impact.
• The opportunity to modernize and strengthen capital project delivery.
• Leadership of complex projects across Arctic, coastal, rural, and urban environments.
• The ability to shape how transportation investments are planned, designed, constructed, and transitioned into operation.
• Collaboration with experienced professionals committed to serving Alaska.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed