Transportation Specialist III

Positions in this job family are responsible for performing professional transportation management work involving the research, planning, construction or maintenance of various types of transportation systems.  Responsibilities may be assigned in any area of transportation management work, including research, planning and designing, surveying, environmental studies, construction or maintenance projects, project management of all phases of highway and bridge construction including the coordination and monitoring of work performed by contractors or vendors, field management of utilities construction and relocation, operational audits, property appraisal and acquisition, relocation assistance, right-of-way activities and materials testing and sampling with laboratory management.

The Transportation Specialist job family has four levels which are distinguished by the level of the complexity of specific job assignments, the extent of responsibility assigned for a specific task, the level of expertise required for completion of assigned tasks; and the responsibility assigned for supervision of others.

Level III :    
This is the specialist level where incumbents perform highly complex, professional level transportation work in such areas as research, planning, design, surveys, environmental studies, materials testing, estimating, technical review of contractors performance property appraisal review and enhancement programming.  May also perform duties as a lead worker on projects, providing direction to other specialists and technicians. 

Level III:     
Education and Experience requirements at this level consists of a bachelor’s degree and three years of experience in transportation-related work , land surveying, technical engineering work, or right-of-way activities; or an equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting one additional year of qualifying experience for each year of the required education or a master’s degree for the one year of experience.

Scores based on:   Qualification Review