Construction & Field Survey Specialist 2025-02177

Are you looking for a career where your work shapes the roads and communities around you—while enjoying life in one of Wyoming’s most beautiful small towns? Join our team in Thermopolis, WY, and be part of building and maintaining safe, reliable highways for the traveling public.

As a Highway Construction & Inspection Specialist, you will play a key role in ensuring the quality and safety of Wyoming’s highway projects. Your work will include conducting surveys, testing, and inspections on highway designs and construction sites. You will monitor contractor performance, review plans for accuracy, anticipate potential conflicts, and ensure that materials are sampled and tested properly. Attention to detail is essential, as you will be responsible for project documentation, pay estimates, and final contract records.

Beyond the work itself, this position offers the opportunity to live in Thermopolis, a community known for its natural beauty and outdoor recreation. Nestled between the Owl Creek Mountains and the Bighorn River, Thermopolis is home to the world’s largest mineral hot springs. Here, you can enjoy white-water rafting, hiking, fishing, swimming, ATVing, hunting, boating, camping, and even dinosaur dig sites.

This position combines technical expertise with outdoor fieldwork, meaning no two days will be the same. As a member of our team, you’ll contribute directly to projects that improve the safety and quality of life in Wyoming. Plus, living and working in Wyoming comes with an added perk—no state income tax, one of the many benefits of calling our state home.

• Culture of public service and a commitment to work/life balance
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• State Retirement plan and additional savings opportunities (deferred compensation)
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays

• Performs various tasks, including surveys, testing, and inspections on preliminary designs and construction of highway projects.
• Responsible for minor construction projects.
• Observers, monitors, and oversees highway and highway-related construction performed by contractors.
• Fields test materials; checks work against specifications and confers with contractors, engineers, and work crews.
• Review highway design plans to verify existing utilities, determine utility conflicts, contact utility companies to notify highway projects, and confirm utility conflicts.
• Responsible for project documentation, pay estimates, and final contract documents.
• Verifies and documents work activities.
• Regularly monitors and inspects work and calculates the payment of contractors.
• Maintains crew diaries and logs supporting departmental record-keeping and/or contract administration activities.
• Ensure that materials sampling and testing are performed properly; audit material summaries for QA/QC purposes.
• Assists in the preparation of recommendations used to design construction projects.
• Anticipates potential problems before going to contract.
• Check preliminary plans for errors and problems.
• Communicates both internally and externally regarding project information and courses of action/consequences on larger projects.
• Researches land ownership and contacts landowners to secure permission to enter their land to conduct surveys.
• Prepares and checks the documentation to be sent to the district finals office.
• Oversees minor to more complex construction projects by documenting pay quantities, coordinating subordinates' work schedules, and working with contractors for quality control.
• Prepares and updates reports as needed.
• Assists and supports the District Land Surveyor and the district administrative personnel.

PREFERENCES/**AGENCY REQUIREMENTS: 


Preference may be given to applicants with 2-4 years of progressive work experience in roadway construction methods, contract administration, survey experience, and material testing.

**Must have the ability to obtain the following certifications/licenses:
          *Valid Driver's License

• Knowledge of project coordination and monitoring. Review design and construction methods.
• Knowledge of construction trades and practices.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Knowledge of engineering and computations/formulas.
• Knowledge of construction inspection, which includes the interpretation of plans and specifications.
• Knowledge of documentation of project records.
• Knowledge of communication with supervisors and contractors.
• Knowledge of working towards a leadership role.
• Knowledge of material testing.
• Ability to perform complicated computer calculations.
• Knowledge of computers and calculators.
• Knowledge of surveying, surveying methods, equipment, and the ability to apply to upload & download survey files.
• Knowledge of contract time, administration & contract changes.

• FLSA:  Non-Exempt
• WYDOT will conduct motor vehicle record checks to verify a valid driver's license.
• E-Verify: WYDOT uses E-Verify, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities.
• The Wyoming Department of Transportation is a Drug-Free Workplace.
• Qualifying eligibility and criteria for the hiring bonus

  • Temporary employees accepting a full-time position.

  • Current employees accepting a promotional opportunity - recruitment must have been opened to the public. 

  • One year of service to WYDOT must be completed, failure to complete this requirement will forfeit the hiring incentive, funds will be recouped from final pay.

  • Internal candidates would be required to remain in the position for a minimum of one (1) year from their promotion date.

  • Employees would only be eligible for one (1) hiring bonus in a 12-month period.

  • If the employee elects to downgrade through an active recruitment and/or appointment during the twelve (12) month period, they would be required to pay the bonus back.

045-Department of Transportation - WYDOT - Chief Engineer - District Construction

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The State of Wyoming is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively supports the ADA and reasonably accommodates qualified applicants with disabilities.