Salary: $4,766.25 - $5,004.75 Biweekly
Location : Juneau or Anchorage or Fairbanks, AK
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 55406
Department: Transportation and Public Facilities
Division: SRD-Support Services
Opening Date: 09/23/2026
Closing Date: 10/5/2026 5:00 PM Alaska
Division: Commissioners Office
Position Open To: All Applicants
Bargaining Unit: Partially Exempt
Range: 27

Job Description
ATTENTION ALL APPLICANTS!

Lead Design and Construction Delivery Where Standard Solutions Are Not Enough
Alaska is not a typical infrastructure environment, and this is not a typical project delivery role.

From highways built on permafrost and rural airports accessible only by air or barge to coastal marine facilities, major bridges, and growing urban corridors, Alaska presents some of the most complex transportation challenges in North America. The Design and Construction Division Director is the department's statewide engineering leader responsible for guiding the design, construction, and delivery of safe, resilient, and constructable transportation projects across this vast and diverse landscape.
If you are motivated by purpose, complexity, and lasting public impact, this is a rare opportunity to lead one of the nation's most distinctive transportation infrastructure programs. You will guide statewide project delivery, align regional teams and technical resources, strengthen accountability, and help modernize how DOT&PF plans, designs, procures, and constructs infrastructure for Alaska.
Depending on the selected applicant, this position may be located in Fairbanks, Anchorage, or Juneau. Salary will be determined based on the selected applicant's qualifications and experience and will be paid according to the applicable Range 27 salary schedule for the assigned duty station.

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What you will be doing:
As the Design and Construction Division Director, you will lead DOT&PF's statewide engineering, design, construction, and capital project delivery program. You will oversee projects from development and design through procurement, construction, operational integration, and final handoff.
You will lead a geographically dispersed organization responsible for delivering highways, bridges, airports, marine facilities, and other transportation improvements in some of the nation's most technically and logistically demanding conditions. Success will depend on building high-performing teams, establishing clear delivery expectations, aligning resources with priorities, managing risk, and strengthening accountability for schedule, budget, quality, and results.
The position directly supervises the regional Preconstruction and Construction Engineers and the Division Operations Manager responsible for budget, finance, fund management, administration, and safety. You will provide executive engineering leadership and work closely with planning, environmental, right-of-way, utilities, procurement, operations, and department leadership to ensure projects are technically sound, practical, constructable, financially responsible, and responsive to Alaska's transportation needs.

In this role, you will:

• Lead statewide engineering, design, construction, and project delivery functions across DOT&PF's capital program
• Establish consistent statewide engineering standards, technical decision-making practices, design quality expectations, constructability requirements, and performance measures
• Guide capital program execution, project readiness, resource alignment, risk management, and delivery accountability
• Strengthen coordination across planning, environmental, design, right-of-way, utilities, procurement, construction, and property management functions
• Support clear, constructable solicitations and improve procurement readiness, consultant utilization, and delivery reliability
• Oversee division operations, including budgeting, fund management, administration, safety coordination, reporting, and organizational performance
• Coordinate staffing, technical resources, consultant capacity, and delivery needs across regional teams
• Partner with Maintenance & Operations leadership to ensure infrastructure investments support long-term maintainability, resilience, and lifecycle performance
• Advance data-informed project delivery, performance metrics, forecasting, reporting, and modernization of project management systems
• Represent DOT&PF before the Legislature, local governments, Tribal organizations, industry partners, regulatory agencies, and community stakeholders
• Serve as a key member of the department's leadership team, advising on statewide engineering, design and construction strategy, technical and delivery risks, organizational coordination, and long-term transportation priorities

Minimum Qualifications

Positions in this job class are in the Partially Exempt Service under AS 39.25.120(c)(2).

Special Note:
Departments are authorized by Personnel Rule 2 AAC 07.015 to identify Division Directors by their specific division titles.
Who we are looking for:

We are seeking a strategic, collaborative, and results-oriented engineering executive with demonstrated success leading complex transportation design, engineering, construction, and capital project delivery programs in geographically dispersed and operationally demanding environments.
The ideal candidate will bring significant professional engineering and executive leadership experience involving transportation infrastructure, design, construction, capital program management, fiscal stewardship, organizational performance, and multidisciplinary coordination.
Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to:

• Lead large, geographically dispersed professional and technical organizations.
• Translate strategic priorities into clear expectations, accountable execution, and measurable results.
• Balance ambitious capital programs with available workforce, funding, consultant capacity, and realistic delivery schedules.
• Build alignment across planning, engineering, construction, procurement, finance, and operational functions.
• Strengthen organizational accountability while empowering regional leaders and technical professionals.
• Make sound, timely decisions involving complex technical, financial, regulatory, and public considerations.
• Lead organizational change while sustaining project delivery and workforce engagement.
• Communicate effectively in highly visible settings involving executive leadership, legislators, federal agencies, communities, and industry partners.
• Develop high-performing teams and support workforce development, succession planning, and professional growth.
• Promote safety, innovation, quality, integrity, and responsible stewardship of public resources.

Candidates may come from senior public- or private-sector engineering leadership roles, including transportation agencies, engineering consulting firms, design and construction organizations, major capital delivery programs, military infrastructure programs, utilities, or other large-scale infrastructure environments. Candidates should demonstrate substantial responsibility for engineering design and construction delivery.
Experience modernizing engineering and project delivery practices, improving organizational performance, and integrating design, construction, procurement, operations, and financial management is highly valued.
Additional Required Information
COVER LETTER:

Applicants are requested to submit a concise cover letter, not to exceed one page, addressing the following:

• Your leadership philosophy and approach to building accountability, collaboration, safety, and performance across a complex organization.
• An example of how you improved design and construction or capital project delivery across multiple teams, regions, or disciplines.
• Why Alaska's infrastructure challenges, transportation environment, and public service mission interest you.
• How your leadership experience and professional background prepare you to serve as DOT&PF's statewide Design and Construction Division Director.

Successful candidates will demonstrate practical leadership, sound judgment, infrastructure delivery experience, political and organizational awareness, and a commitment to building resilient infrastructure and high-performing teams.
EDUCATION
To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application. (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts). Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

WORK EXPERIENCE
If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer's name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time. Applications will b