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Application Deadline

This position is expected to stay open until Tuesday, May 13, 2025. Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than 5/13/25 at 11:59 p.m. to ensure consideration.

Who We Are & What You’ll Do

The Department of Transportation & Infrastructure (DOTI) is seeking a highly motivated and experienced professional in the transportation industry to serve as Director of the Transportation Implementation Division that is a key leader within DOTI’s Transportation Business Unit. The primary functions of this position are to lead a team of more than 40 professionals that deliver transportation infrastructure projects across the city that aim to improve the safety of the city’s transportation system and improve the quality of life in Denver. The Division Director provides staff leadership, cross-organizational collaboration, business planning and workload management, technical guidance, budgeting, and performance reporting, among many other duties. This position will also have review, coordination, and signature responsibilities for transportation project delivery through the delegation of authority from the City Engineer. Additionally, this position sits within DOTI’s Executive and Core Leadership teams, serves as the city liaison to regional and state entities, and helps to guide the present and future trajectory of the organization.

The Transportation Implementation Division designs and delivers the City’s capital transportation program that is established through Mayoral goals, DOTI’s strategic plan (Denver Moves Everyone), public input, and funded through the city’s annual capital budget, state and federal grants, and voter-initiated bond programs. Core functions of this Division include design and construction project management, program management, subject matter expertise, contract oversight, and coordination with internal and external infrastructure partners (FHWA, CDOT, RTD, Xcel Energy, Denver Water, etc.), and more.

This Division manages over 100 active projects that value approximately $450 million. The types of projects managed range greatly in size and complexity and are delivered through a wide variety of procurement strategies and delivery mechanisms. To support this portfolio of work, the team consists of supervisory and administrative roles, project managers, designers, construction managers and inspectors, and specialists in varying disciplines including program management, NEPA/environmental permitting, utility coordination, and council/community engagement.  The team also utilizes staff augmentation through consultant supplied services.  Examples of work delivered through this Division include and can be viewed here:

• Mobility programs: pedestrian and bikes facilities, transit infrastructure, ITS & signals, etc.
• Safety initiatives: Vision Zero, Safe and Slow Streets, Neighborhood Transportation Management Plans, Safe Routes to School, etc.
• Large, complex projects: Morrison Road, Washington Street, Jewell Ave Ped/Bike Bridge, etc.
• Ongoing citywide deferred maintenance
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) programs and regulatory projects
• And more

In this role you will have the ability to make a direct impact in bettering our city by implementing safe and equitable transportation mobility projects and programs that benefit all residents and the traveling public. You will successfully lead by bringing and implementing ideas that will increase collaboration, performance, innovation, and accountability to our team and to our partners as you work together to streamline project delivery.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Education Requirement: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Architecture.
• Experience Requirement: Five (5) years of experience at the type and level of functional or operational management, which must have included management of licensed engineer or architect supervisors.
• Education/Experience Equivalency: No substitution of experience for education is permitted. Additional appropriate education may be substituted for experience requirements.
• Licenses/Certifications:
  • Requires a valid Driver's License at the time of application.
  • Requires registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) by the Colorado State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers at the time of application. Or requires registration as an Architect by the Colorado State Board of Registration at the time of application.
    • Registration in another state will be accepted in lieu of this requirement, provided that the applicant has Colorado registration at completion of probation.
  • Licenses and certifications must be kept current as a condition of employment.