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Colorado Department Of Transportation Engineering Assistant II - Sterling in Sterling, Colorado
DEPARTMENT INFORMATION:
This position is open to Colorado residents and non-residents applicants.
This position is covered by the Partnership Agreement between the State of Colorado and Colorado Workers for Innovative and New Solutions (COWins).
New employees to the State will be paid biweekly. There are 26 biweekly pay periods in a year.
ABOUT CDOT Do you want to make a difference in Coloradans' lives? Do you have a passion for helping people and keeping them safe? At the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), you'll have the opportunity to do just that. The work our people do contributes to keeping Coloradans and visitors safe and provides freedom, connection, and experience through travel. Please visit our careers page to learn about CDOT and how we are making Colorado a great place to live, work and play, now and for the future! Also, check out our excellent benefits package!
CDOT FOR ALL CDOT's strength is our people, and our commitment to our people is to shape, support, and sustain the employee experience, and ultimately, create a supportive workplace where everyone, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, education, disability, socio-economic status, or any other identity, has the opportunity to thrive.
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The eligible list created from this announcement may be used to fill current and future vacancies for a period of up to 6 months.
DESCRIPTION OF JOB:
About the Work Unit This position is located in CDOT s Region 4 Sterling Engineering Residency. This residency provides project design, construction and materials support to Sterling and the surrounding areas. It ensures that projects which improve and maintain the transportation system within the Region are designed and constructed in a safe and cost effective manner, including materials utilized in the projects.
About the Position As an Engineering/Physical Sciences Assistant II (EPSA II), you will assist with design, construction, and materials testing for transportation projects. This includes design review and support, construction inspection, testing of materials incorporated into projects, assuring compliance of plans and specifications, and determining the quantities for interim progress payments.
You will assist in the design of construction plans by automated drafting, gathering and checking of project quantities, and geometrics. This position performs routine materials testing and inspection, including collecting test materials, running appropriate tests, and conducting analyses. Complex testing and inspection will be done under the guidance of an Engineering Technician or an Engineer.
Your duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
Assist with the visual inspections of contractor s work, materials used, and methods employed by the contractor to confirm compliance with project plans and specifications; Provide information so the project engineer can complete all documentation in accordance with the CDOT Construction Manual; Assist with routine analysis to check applicability, accuracy, and reasonableness of data; Assist with collecting field measurements that will be used to generate pay quantities for contractor s work; Assist with the execution physical tests, as per the Materials Manual, on materials to be incorporated into a project to conform and comply with the plans and specifications; Gather and document results of physical tests and materials certification for incorporation into the project records; Conduct tests such as gradations, asphalt content, air and slump, proctors and the like to ensure conformance with the specifications; Utilize computer software programs relevant to design and construction of projects, and for receiving and transmitting inter-departmental communications, including Microsoft Suite, Google, OpenRoads, SiteManager, LIMS, Ashpalt03; Check documentation and calculations using appropriate manuals as guidelines for standardization; Learn to review preliminary project design plans and documentation using appropriate manuals to ensure completeness, accuracy and constructability of design, quantity verifications and deficiencies; Assist with documenting the quantities for inclusion in the project records; Assist in Project Finals by checking all 266 s, 305 s, Contract Modification Orders (CMO s) and completing the As Built construction plans; Verify all materials certifications as complete and valid, and test results are complete for materials finals documentation on assigned projects; Learn to complete field surveys for compiling field data to be incorporated into the design of transportation facilities, transfer collected data to computers by interfacing with computer programs and edit and translate the