Engineer 1

At WVDOH, your Professional Engineer license allows you to step into a Transportation

Engineer position, where you will serve as a first level supervisor, team leader, or technical

specialist solving complex infrastructure challenges across the Mountain State.

Customize your career track across key engineering disciplines based on your interests and location preferences:

•  Design & Highway Engineering: Lead a team in the development of geometric road
• alignments, lane layouts, intersections, and earthwork using state-of-the-art CAD
• software.
•  Bridge & Structural Engineering: Analyze, design, and inspect bridges, retaining
• walls, culverts, and overhead structures for structural capacity and safety.
•  Traffic & Operations Engineering: Optimize traffic flow, design signal timing, conduct
• safety audits, and implement Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
•  Construction Project Management: Oversee active highway and bridge construction
• sites, managing contractor compliance, quality control, schedules, and budgets.
•  Geotechnical Engineering: Analyze soil, rock, slopes, and foundations to mitigate
• landslides, settlement, and structural failures.
•  Materials & Testing Engineering: Test and certify asphalt, concrete, steel, and
• aggregate against federal and state quality specifications.
•  Maintenance & Operations Engineering: Plan and direct long-term infrastructure
• preservation, winter operations, drainage, and emergency repairs.
•  Pavement Engineering: Conduct pavement life-cycle cost analysis and manage
• statewide concrete and asphalt management systems.

Qualifications

•  Education: Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (or a closely related engineering
• discipline) from an ABET-accredited institution.
•  Certification: Professional Engineer (PE) certification recognized by the West Virginia
• State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers.
•  Experience Level: Early Career (4+ years). Provide mentorship and structured on-the-
• job training to junior staff.
•  Requirements: Valid driver’s license.

Pay: From $90,670.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person