645 Iowa Department of Transportation is hiring: Design Technician in Iowa

Overview

Are you a motivated person interested in a career with great benefits, flexible work hours, and a family friendly attitude? The Iowa Department of Transportation is looking for a Design Technician within the ROW-Design section in the Right-of-Way Bureau. You will be utilizing Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) programs to layout and generate the right-of-way plans and exhibits to establish the required right-of-way for highway construction projects. The Design Technician is expected to be able to develop plans from simple to moderately complex projects under general supervision.

Typical work responsibilities:

Developing proposed right of way limits; preparing documentation used in the appraisal and acquisition of property; ordering the report of ownership and liens from county abstractors; performing additional ownership research from various county assessors websites; determining what property rights need to be acquired.

Responsibilities

• Conduct title abstract review and interpret complex legal descriptions to identify property ownership.
• Review title documents to determine impact of possible encumbrances.
• Interpret construction plans to determine construction needs and develop right-of-way layout plans using computer aided design software.
• Prepare the final right-of-way design plans and documents in accordance with project-specific demands.
• Draft individual plot plans with area calculation used for parcel appraisals and acquisitions.
• Develop strip maps for the general management of required right-of-way ownership.

Software and other systems

• MicroStation
• ProjectWise
• Excel
• Masterworks

Typical Work Hours

Monday through Friday; 8:00 am – 4:30 pm (40 hours per week). Flexible work locations and hours available upon supervisor approval; some travel will be required.

Mission and CORE values

The 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.

Benefits

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• Competitive pay and benefits package including health, dental, flexible spending, and life insurance
• Insurance benefits start the first month following 30 days of employment
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Paid time off effective immediately - biweekly vacation, separate sick leave, accruals rollover yearly, 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

Qualifications

1. Graduation from high school (or GED equivalent), and experience equal to six years of full-time work in design drafting, cartography, photogrammetry, engineering survey, soils survey, land survey, or construction inspection.
2. All of the following (a and b): a. Four years of full-time work experience in design drafting, cartography, photogrammetry, engineering survey, soils survey, land survey, or construction inspection; b. 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 any field equals one year of full-time experience.

1. All of the following (a and b): a. Four years of full-time work experience in design drafting, cartography, photogrammetry, engineering survey, soils survey, land survey, or construction inspection; b. A total of two years of education and/or full-time experience (as described in number one), where thirty semester hours of an accredited vocational program in engineering technology, design drafting, engineering survey, soils survey, land survey, construction inspection, or cartography equals two years of full-time experience.

1. Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes eighteen months of full-time work as a Design Technician Associate.

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