Job Description:

• 1) Administers statewide highway planning, design, construction, and maintenance programs: Coordinates activities of state highway engineering agencies.

• 2) Reviews highway and bridge plans, location, contracts, and cost estimates for technical and legal accuracy, and approves acceptable proposals or makes corrective recommendations.

• 3) Directs workers in research activities related to highway planning and engineering, and formulates highway engineering policies and procedures.

• 4) Directs preparation of state agency budgets.

• 5) Directs workers in preparation of reports to state and federal government officials and represents state highway commissioner at hearings with public officials, contractors, and engineering personnel.

• 6) Speaks before civic groups and public gatherings to disseminate highway planning information and to solicit public support.