Engineer 6 DCL (PQU & Publications)Print (https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/louisiana/jobs/newprint/4737099) ApplyEngineer 6 DCL (PQU & Publications)Salary $7,186.66 - $12,047.00 MonthlyLocation Baton Rouge, LAJob TypeClassifiedJob Number36/50566759/E6DCL/11.20.24-MVDepartmentDOTD-Engineering & OperationsDivisionSection 36Opening Date11/21/2024Closing Date12/5/2024 11:59 PM Central
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Supplemental InformationSection 36 – Plan Quality and Publications36/50566759/E6DCL/11.20.24-MVAbout this position: The position helps to ensure plan development conformity within the Office of Engineering, which includes statewide travel to LA DOTD district offices.Supplemental Qualifications: Four years of engineering experience with roadway and/or bridge construction plans in the plan preparation, project delivery, review, or construction phases.This position has a Special Entrance Rate (SER) - $3316.00/biweekly.This position may be filled as either a probational appointment (open to all qualified applicants); a promotion (open to all statewide classified and agency-wide permanent status employees); or by detail to special duty.Please visit our DOTD Career Center for more information about our agency:http://wwwsp.dotd.la.gov/InsideLaDOTD/Divisions/MgmtFinance/HR/Pages/CareerCenter.aspx No Civil Service test scoreis required in order to be considered for this vacancy.To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities.Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.Required License for Engineer 6-DCL: Professional Engineer License in the state of Louisiana. If selected, applicants with engineering licenses in other states will be required to attain a Louisiana engineering license prior to the date of hire.Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.For further information about this vacancy contact:Steven MazurDOTD/Engineer 71201 Capitol Access RoadBaton Rouge, LA 70802225-379-1488steven.mazur@la.gov The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) is an equal employment opportunity employer and serves as a model employer for individuals with disabilities. DOTD does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, disability, age, or pregnancy, and prohibits harassment of any type.Information on the Louisiana Workforce Commission, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services is available here: www.laworks.net/workforcedev/Irs/Irstechasstguidance.asp. Minimum QualificationsMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Possession of a current Louisiana license to practice professional engineering and one of the following:
Two years of licensed engineering experience.
Six years of professional engineering experience.
SUBSTITUTIONS:
A master's degree in engineering will substitute for one year of the required experience.
A Ph.D. in engineering will substitute for two years of the required experience.
Advanced degrees will substitute for a maximum of two years of required experience.
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Engineering experience gained while licensed as a professional engineer will be accepted as licensed engineering experience.
Engineering experience gained after earning an ABET-accredited degree and prior to earning a professional engineer’s license (e.g., as an engineer intern applicant, engineer intern, or equivalent) will be accepted as professional level engineering experience.
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Applications will be accepted from persons licensed to practice professional engineering in states other than Louisiana. If one of those applicants is selected for the position, he/she will be required to obtain a Louisiana license prior to appointment. The hiring agency will verify that all licensing requirements are met.
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This job is designated a Dual Career Ladder job as defined in State Civil Service Rule 1.14.1.1, requiring the possession of advanced, specialized skills that may vary by position. Any required supplemental qualifications will be posted for the specific vacancy.
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Louisiana Professional Engineer licenses are issued by the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board. Licensing requirements may be viewed at www.lapels.com
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Any college hours or degree must be from an accredited college or university.
Job ConceptsFUNCTION OF WORK:Serves as a leader and departmental authority in either a broad area of engineering or in a narrow but intensely specialized field of engineering.LEVEL OF WORK:Expert.SUPERVISION RECEIVED:Broad direction from an Engineer 7 or 8. Alternative reporting relationships may be approved by SCS.SUPERVISION EXERCISED:May exercise functional/project supervision over lower-level engineers, other professionals or engineering technicians.LOCATION OF WORK:May be used by all state agencies.JOB DISTINCTIONS:Differs from Engineer 5 by the presence of designation as a Dual Career Ladder job.Differs from Engineer 6 by the absence of responsibility for direct supervision over professional engineers.Examples of WorkThe position helps to ensure plan development conformity within the Office of Engineering, which includes statewide travel to LA DOTD district offices. This position serves as an expert in plan development procedures and design policies and:Plan Review
Keeps up with current design and construction practices to ensure that construction plans include necessary information, proper formatting, and correct pay items and quantities to minimize scope and budget changes during construction.
Review consultant and DOTD in-house design plans to provide centralized quality control of construction plans. This allows for standardizing plans throughout the state to reduce errors, misunderstandings, and misinterpretations of plan information that could lead to FALCON questions, delay of project lettings, bid irregularities, or costly change orders.
Provides review comments statewide for all types of construction plans. These reviews will be used to modify and make corrections to plans. The reviews will function as a mechanism for communicating necessary changes in design policy or processes to those who submit plans for review.
Coordinates with the Construction Section, District Design Offices, Road Design Section, Bridge Design Section, and Publications Engineer to have specifications and standard plans updated to address problems that are reflected in redundant or unnecessary plan notes, recurring plan errors, change orders, questions from designers, and FALCON questions.
Meets with various executive staff members and Section Heads and provides documentation to explain the review comments and their dispositions, resolutions to potential problems, and a description of the level of review to which a project was subjected.
Plan Conformity
Coordinates with the Technical Manual & Document Manager and the Technical Policy Planner to identify where directives, standards, manuals, required forms, mandatory checklists, and design standards are not in conformity so that corrective actions may be determined to prevent errors, confusion, change orders, and significant project cost increases.
Ensures conformity by advising various users of technical documents on the effects that existing and new policies or documents have on plan development.
Proposes changes to policies, documents, specifications, and manuals in an expert engineering capacity in coordination with department experts to ensure conformity by determining how these changes will affect plans.
Initiates analysis via meetings and committees to determine the current necessity of existing and potential plan requirements to lower costs by reducing engineering efforts and ensuring conformity to changing construction practices.
Meets with various Section Heads and committees until resolutions are reached for the above items. This position will document and disseminate the final resolutions to appropriate parties with detailed engineering justification and clarification.
While in an official capacity, DOTD employees must comply with applicable Louisiana and Civil Service laws, rules, and regulations and DOTD policies, procedures, manuals, and directives.
40% Review/Initiate Proposed Changes:
Reviews or initiates proposed changes to directives, standards, manuals, required forms, mandatory checklists, specifications, design standards, plan development, and policy.
Attends committee meetings with other sections to give expert engineering opinions on how any potential changes would affect how DOTD communicates information via plans to ensure conformity.
30% Review of Construction Plans:
Reviews DOTD and consultant plans for technical and mathematical accuracy, adherence to current format requirements, and overall quality control.
Check the plan scope to determine whether it is appropriate under the circumstances.
Contact relevant sections to update plans according to changes in policies, specifications, or construction practices.
Provide detailed comments to designers indicating errors, necessary changes, or potential problems that may arise during the bidding process or construction and document such observations and how they were addressed for reference of the Chief Engineer.
15% Provide Expert Advice:
Documents and disseminates the final resolution to changes in how plans convey information to relevant parties with detailed engineering justification and clarification.
Ensures conformity by advising various users of technical documents on how to find and use policies and documents that affect plan development.
10% Plan Review Meetings:
Arranges and chairs plan review meetings with project managers and/or designers to allow for a free-flow discussion and explanation of plan comments developed during the review process.
Explain the reasoning behind the comments for clarification and collaborative learning to avoid future errors or misunderstandings.
5% Other Duties: May be required to perform other duties as necessary, including, but not limited to, emergency/disaster support activities.
Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career. As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leaveMore information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspxHolidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:
New Year's Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
Mardi Gras,
Good Friday,
Memorial Day,
Independence Day,
Labor Day,
Veteran's Day,
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the GovernorState employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):
Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/YourRetirementSystem.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system
Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),
Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others
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Are you a permanent LA-DOTD employee?
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Are you a probational LA-DOTD employee?
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Are you a current or former employee of the State of Louisiana?
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If so, for which state agency(ies) do you/did you work and during what time period(s)? If not, indicate "N/A".
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To ensure compliance with PPM #9, DOTD Nepotism Policy, please list the name and relationship with any immediate family members that are currently employed by the LA-DOTD. Please type "N/A" if there are no immediate family members?
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Do you have 4 or more years of engineering experience with roadway and/or bridge construction plans in the plan preparation, project delivery, review, or construction phases? (All experience must be included in your application.)
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If you answered yes to the previous question, please list where you gained that experience. (All experience must also be clearly detailed in your application).
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Do you possess a current Louisiana Professional Engineer License issued by the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Surveying Board (LAPELS)?
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If you answered yes to the previous question, please list your license number, original issue date and expiration date. If you answered no, indicate "N/A".
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Do you possess a professional engineering license issued by another state?
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Are you available for statewide travel?
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