Senior Design Engineer
State of Iowa
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Design Technician Associate
State of Iowa
645 Iowa Department of Transportation
Location
Iowa, 50319
Salary
$17.96 - $26.38
per hour
Type
Full-Time
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March 9, 2026
Job Description
Summary
This job involves working on a team to create designs for highways, including drafting plans with computer software, calculating road layouts, and planning intersections and drainage systems to ensure safe and practical construction.
It's ideal for someone detail-oriented who enjoys technical drawing and problem-solving in a collaborative environment focused on improving transportation.
A good fit would be a motivated individual with a positive attitude and interest in innovative highway projects.
Key Requirements
- Proficiency in MicroStation for drafting and producing roadway design plans
- Understanding of highway design principles, including geometrics, alignments, and constructability
- Ability to calculate and tabulate materials, vertical/horizontal alignments, intersections, drainage, and traffic control
- Strong problem-solving skills to analyze challenges and develop solutions
- Effective communication with team members, management, and project stakeholders
- Commitment to excellence, innovation, and a positive, inclusive attitude
- Alignment with Iowa DOT core values: Safety First, People Matter, Customer Focused, Servant Leadership, Integrity Without Exception
Full Job Description
As a Design Technician Associate, you will participate on a team that makes important decisions that balance highway geometrics, constructability, and property impacts!
You will assist in the preparation of computer-generated roadway design plans by drafting and adding text to the design file and producing plan sheets using MicroStation.
You will tabulate and quantify materials to build highway projects, assist in the calculation of roadway geometric features, including vertical and horizontal highway alignments.
Also, assisting in the design and layout of intersections, drainage systems, and traffic control plans that are consistent with Iowa DOT design guidance.
Preferred Knowledge:
- Understanding of highway design principles
- Ability to successfully utilize advanced software applications.
- Analyzes challenges, defines successful solution alternatives, and proactively solves problems.
Preferred Characteristics:
- Passion and commitment to excellence in our highway design products.
- Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management and a wide variety of individuals involved in the project development process.
- Motivated, friendly, inclusive, and get-it-done attitude.
- Embraces and encourages a culture that thrives on innovative ideas and leading changes that result in effective process and project improvements.
- Brings a professional, positive attitude to our team every day.
Iowa Department of Transportation’s Mission is Making Lives Better Through Transportation.
To accomplish our Mission, the person selected for this position will demonstrate actions and behaviors guided by the Iowa Department of Transportation’s five CORE values: Safety First, People Matter, Customer Focused, Servant Leadership, and Integrity Without Exception.
Location: Transportation Development Division, Design Bureau
Shift Requirements: Day Shift, Monday – Friday, Flex Scheduling Available
As a State of Iowa employee, you will be eligible for the following benefits:
- Competitive pay and benefits package including health, dental, flexible spending, and life insurance
- Insurance benefits start the first month following 30 days of employment, and costs can be reviewed here.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Paid time off effective immediately - biweekly vacation, separate sick leave, accruals rollover on a yearly basis, and 9 paid holidays per year.
- Iowa Public Employee Retirement System (IPERS) Retirement Package with employer match
- Optional 401A plan with employer contributions.
- Employee Discount Programs from a variety of vendors (vision, cellular, fitness, recreation, season passes, travel, counseling; legal, financial).
You have the freedom to flourish in Iowa – Apply now!
The Iowa Department of Transportation is an equal-opportunity employer.
If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing any screening, interviewing, pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the selection process, please direct your request to the Affirmative Action & Equal Employment Opportunity (AA/EEO) Officer at: aa-eeo@iowadot.us.
Reasonable accommodation, such as an interpreter, translator, written materials, modified equipment/devices, ADA access, etc. This does not include scheduling needs.
The State of Iowa participates in E-Verify, a federal program that helps employers confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees.
Within the required timeframe, new hires will be verified through the E-Verify system to ensure authorization to work in the United States.
The State of Iowa also complies with the federal Right to Work laws, which protect employees’ rights to work without being required to join a labor organization.
For more information, please visit www.e-verify.gov.
Qualifications
Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:- Graduation from high school (or GED equivalent), and experience equal to two years of full-time work in design drafting, cartography, photogrammetry, engineering survey, soils survey, land survey, or construction inspection.
- A total of two years of education and/or full-time experience (as described in number one), where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university course work in math, engineering, or a related field equals one year of full-time experience.
- Graduation from an accredited vocational program in engineering technology, design drafting, engineering survey, soils survey, land survey, construction inspection, or cartography.
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