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Road Engineers:
Virginia needs your help
by Virginia
Business Staff
October 2003
Virginia
is looking for a few good engineers — 50 of them,
in fact, to fill a knowledge gap in the state’s
transportation department. Virginia Department of Transportation
Commissioner Philip Shucet, stung by mistakes at an
Interstate 64 project in Hampton that will take $2.7
million to fix, says the new hires will work on design
and construction around the state. “We must put
the right people with the right skills in the right
place to make this work,” Shucet said when announcing
the hiring plan.
The
openings are being advertised in major daily newspapers,
mostly in Virginia, and in trade publications. They
pay up to $93,599 a year and up to $121,679 for those
assigned to Northern Virginia. This spring VDOT said
that nearly two-thirds of the people in the department
holding jobs that required a professional engineer’s
license didn’t have one.
Along
with giving the department’s nine district offices
more help, Shucet is giving them the power to make the
key decisions on construction projects.
Virginia
Business - October 2003
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