09059 - Eng Sr Supv Materials

What Drives You? Join the Bristol District as a Senior Materials Engineer Supervisor and lead the teams that shape Virginia’s infrastructure through innovation, quality, and engineering excellence. Supervise and train professional engineering and technical staff. Plan, develop, coordinate and monitor activities of engineers responsible for the technical review, analyses and approval of engineering activities. Lead projects across functional areas of the department. Provide project management and leadership to include planning, supervising, organizing, monitoring and directing work activities of staff and resources. Coordinate activities with management, stakeholders, customers, and key individuals throughout VDOT. Communicate with internal VDOT staff, local government staff, consultants, citizens and FHWA regarding transportation projects and programs. To support the Materials section by overseeing the production and review of high quality and professional pavement and geotechnical designs and recommendations. To provide construction engineering support and consultation for VDOT, local government and consultant staff as it relates to materials. **How you will contribute:** - Communications: Respond to technical inquiries from employees, the public, local government agencies, stakeholders and other special interest groups. Establish and maintain timely communications and close working relations with project team members to ensure vital technical project information is disseminated. - Construction and Maintenance Project Field Support: Respond to materials-related problems and questions from construction and maintenance personnel. Visit construction projects to review site, evaluate problems and provide recommendations. Visit construction and maintenance projects to give guidance and instruction to field personnel. Participate in partnering meetings. - Facilitate Section Improvement: Suggest and lead the implementation of improvement opportunities for the section. Develop implementation strategies that result in improved quality in the outcomes for customer satisfaction and efficiency. - Leadership and Program Support: Provide leadership and direction to assigned engineering team. Provide technical support and assistance to VDOT staff in other divisions or districts on projects as needed to meet goals. Prepare and review technical reports. Act as team and technical lead for projects and proposals. Provides technical leadership to engineers and technical staff. Provides recommendations on various technical aspects of assigned engineering program. - Management Reporting: Prepare frequent management reports documenting staff task assignments, project status and unresolved issues requiring management direction and decision. - Preliminary Engineering Reviews: Perform detailed reviews of design documents and plans. Attend meetings to present recommendations. Complete written documentation of recommendations. - Preliminary Engineering: Review geotechnical requests for completeness. Develop geotechnical investigation programs in compliance with standards. Coordinate field operations. May provide oversight for contract driller and assemble boring logs and geotechnical plan sheets. Provide designs and recommendations for pavement structures (bridges, retaining walls, sound barriers), foundations, slopes, subgrades and other earthwork based upon analysis of soils, cost and traffic data. Develop contract specifications and special provisions. - Responsible Charge Engineer: Fulfill duties as responsible charge engineer in compliance with policies, procedures and the Code of Virginia. - Slope Analysis and Monitoring: Serve as technical expert for slope stability analysis and field instrumentation (inclinometer). - Team Leadership: Supervise team of engineers and technicians. Assign projects and tasks, monitor work progress and provide guidance. Promote training and development opportunities. **What will make you successful:** - Ability to an…