Closing Date: July 20th, 2025 or upon receipt of the first 50 application submissions.

Engineering Project Manager (Design)

Department of Transportation
Annual Salary Range: $99,320 - $118,123.20

Job Summary: Under limited supervision, administer and manage all engineering projects from start to finish and to perform such other duties as may be assigned.

Job Duties:

• Plan, design, and manage the engineering projects in Transportation Services, including scheduling, contracting, consultant management, staffing, budgets, conflict resolution, quality control, quality assurance, record keeping, project finalizing, PS & E and all associated deliverables.
• Maintain the County Trunk Highways (CTH’s) through scheduled improvements and coordination with the highway maintenance department.
• Plan and design highway related components (i.e. profiles, cross sections, geometrics) of engineering projects, using AutoCAD Civil 3D and other design software programs.
• Involvement with WISDOT freeway and roadway projects related to highways that impact CTH's/Milwaukee County facilities, including attending meetings, coordination, review of plans and contract documents, obtaining mitigation agreements, including review of reports and analysis.
• Investigate and respond to requests and concerns of elected officials, County departments, other municipal agencies, and the public related to highway engineering and safety.
• Assist in the development of capital improvement plans and budgets for highway engineering design projects in Transportation Services.
• Other miscellaneous tasks for meeting project timelines, quality assurance/control and budgets as needed.

Minimum Requirements:

• Current resident of the state of WI
• Valid Wisconsin driver’s license at time of application and maintained throughout employment. 
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Civil Engineering.
• At least five (5) years’ experience in Civil Engineering and Project Management. 
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) license in Wisconsin.
• Intermediate knowledge of all related computer and software applications, such as word processing and spreadsheets.
• Intermediate knowledge of AUTOCAD CIVIL3D

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:  Experience with the design process needed to achieve PS & E. Knowledgeable about the WisDOT Facilities Development Manual (FDM). Exchange of basic information with internal and/or external contacts.  Maintain sensitive or confidential information.  Explain and gather information, answer queries, or provide assistance to internal and/or external contacts.  Persuade, conform or recommend course of action with internal and/or external contacts.  Read, write and comprehend simple instructions, reports, short correspondence and memos.  Speak effectively before both internal and/or external groups.  Read, analyze, and interpret safety rules, operating/maintenance instructions and procedure manuals, scientific/technical journals and procedures, government regulations, financial and legal documents.  Makes minimal decision-making responsibility.  Makes decisions of responsibility involving evaluation of information; decisions may require development or application of alternatives or precedents.

NOTE:  This original application is open to permanent residents of the state of Wisconsin at the time of application. In accordance with Section 11, Rule 3 of the Civil Service Rules a non-competitive examination will be held for this position. The non-competitive examination will consist of criteria deemed appropriate by the Director of Human Resources.

APPLICANTS MUST POSSESS MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AT TIME OF FILING APPLICATION