Fish Passage Delivery Engineer (TE4)
About The Position
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is seeking a Fish Passage Delivery Engineer to support the statewide Fish Passage Barrier Correction Program. This major initiative has significant environmental, legal, and transportation impacts. In this role, you will help advance fish passage projects by supporting program delivery strategies, coordinating complex engineering work, and helping teams navigate challenges throughout project development and delivery. You will work with engineers, technical specialists, consultants, regional teams, and external partners to contribute to solutions that bring together multiple engineering disciplines and support effective project delivery. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to help shape fish passage policies and guidance, influence program strategies, and support projects that advance WSDOT's transportation and environmental commitments.
Requirements
- Demonstrates knowledge of transportation engineering principles, project development, engineering design, construction administration, and project delivery processes.
- Evaluates technical issues, identifies project risks, develops practical solutions, and makes well-supported recommendations.
- Interprets and applies engineering policies, standards, manuals, environmental requirements, and design criteria to transportation projects.
- Coordinates complex work across multiple engineering disciplines, organizational units, consultants, and external partners to achieve program objectives.
- Builds collaborative working relationships with diverse stakeholders while facilitating technical discussions and resolving complex issues.
- Communicates complex technical information effectively through written reports, presentations, correspondence, and verbal communication tailored to technical and executive audiences.
- Organizes and prioritizes multiple assignments, adapts to changing priorities, and meets deadlines.
- Uses Microsoft Office applications and other business tools to analyze information, monitor program performance, and support engineering decision-making.
- Demonstrates sound judgment, continuous learning, professionalism, accountability, and commitment to customer service.
- Actively demonstrates a commitment to learning and growth.
- Takes action to meet the needs of others.
- Ability to report to in-person meetings and field locations as business needs require.
Nice To Haves
- Holds an Engineer-in-Training certification.
- Demonstrates knowledge of fish passage design, delivery, and applicable design guidance, including WDFW Water Crossing Design Guidelines.
- Demonstrates experience facilitating multidisciplinary meetings involving technical issues, competing priorities, and diverse stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Support development of the Fish Passage Program Delivery Plan by developing and organizing project information used to prioritize fish passage projects and shape program delivery strategies.
- Monitor delivery plan implementation by helping identify risks, obstacles, and opportunities that could affect project delivery and supporting strategies to keep projects moving forward.
- Support delivery plan updates by coordinating with regional program managers, regional leadership, and technical offices to initiate and communicate changes to internal and external partners.
- Support statewide project scoping by helping manage consultant work, develop scopes of work and task orders, and coordinate resources needed to advance fish passage projects.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering efforts involving Hydraulics, Bridge and Structures, Geotechnical, Traffic, Environmental, Real Estate, Utilities, Design, Construction, and other technical disciplines.
- Help solve complex engineering challenges that arise during project scoping, pre-design, project development, design, procurement, and construction.
- Facilitate technical discussions by bringing together information from multiple engineering disciplines and helping teams develop practical solutions to project challenges.
- Support fish passage policy development by collaborating with Design, Construction, Hydraulics, Environmental Services, Active Transportation, and other offices to identify and address gaps in policy and design guidance.
- Develop and support program policies and guidance that help guide the design and construction of fish passage projects.
Benefits
- Flexible schedule options
- Telework options
- 12 paid holidays
- Up to 25 paid vacation days per year
- Tuition reimbursement programs
- Government discounts at participating colleges
- Eligibility for federal student loan forgiveness
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Variety of healthcare options
- Choice of state retirement programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
