This position is opened to anyone who meets minimum qualifications. Some employees serve as team leader on large and complex engineering projects leading and directing multi-disciplinary project teams with professionals and consultants, others may be assigned administrative and managerial responsibility for an organizational unit overseeing technical work functions. Other positions independently perform expert level duties within one or more highly specialized areas within the field of Transportation Engineering such as highway, bridge, airport, rail, port, facility design, traffic or hydraulics.
Employees receive general supervision from a higher level engineering manager.
Specific position allocation to this level is determined by application of the Position Appraisal Method of Job Evaluation. Six years of experience in professional engineering. Additional work experience in professional engineering, or in technical engineering at the journey level or above, may be substituted on a year or year basis for the required education. Possession of a Master s Degree in engineering may be substituted for one year of the required experience. Persons currently registered as Professional Engineers in the State of Maryland, or in a State with comparable requirements, are considered to have met the education requirements.