Accountant
As an accountant, you will perform professional accounting work relating to the transactions of Government, quasi-governmental, or private organizations. You will work in areas such as design, development, installation, operation, or inspection of accounting systems.
Applicable Degree: Accounting, Business Administration
Includes 24 semester hours in accounting
Administrative/Program Assistant
You will provide or obtain a variety of administrative management services essential to the operation of the FHWA. You may be responsible for training, personnel, finance, procurement (supplies and equipment), travel, and transportation.
Attorney
You will prepare and/or present cases for trial; give legal advice and services concerning regulatory materials; prepare interpretive and administrative orders, rules, or regulations; draft, negotiate, or examine contracts or other legal documents; and draft, prepare formal comments, or make substantive recommendations with respect to proposed legislation.
Applicable Degree: Law
Budget Analyst
You will work with the Federal budget process. As an analyst, you will formulate, justify, present and enact, or execute budgets. You may be involved in analytical, technical and administrative areas in one or more phases of the budgetary process.
Applicable Degree: Any bachelor's degree
Community Planner
Highway development affects communities. As a community planner, you will identify community needs, resources, and problems. You will assist citizens in making decisions on goals, policies, priorities, plans, and programs. Your assistance is designed to lessen any adverse impact of highway development upon the community. Through community planning, you will help create (or maintain) the physical, economic, and social environment desired by the community members.
Applicable Degree: Urban Studies, Transportation Planning
Computer Specialist (Analyst or Programmer)
You will design, develop, and maintain automated information systems to solve problems or accomplish work.
Applicable Degree: Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Engineering, Information Science, Information Systems Management
Contract Specialist
You will procure supplies and contract for services, using formal advertising or negotiation procedures; evaluate contract price proposals; and administer (or terminate) and close out contracts.
Applicable Degree: Accounting, Business Administration, Law, Finance, Economics, Marketing
Economist
You will collect, interpret, and publish information associated with the highway system and its economic impacts. Your duties may include analyzing economic data and preparing interpretive reports; providing advice on economic matters to Government officials and private organizations or citizens; planning Government policy; and drafting proposed legislation.
Applicable Degree: Any bachelor's degree, Economics
Includes 21 hours in economics and 3 semester hours in
accounting, statistics or calculus.
Engineering Technician
Engineering technicians serve an important function in the FHWA by performing duties in almost every area relating to construction and design of highways and bridges. You will apply your practical knowledge of methods and techniques of engineering, construction, operations, structures, machinery, devices, and materials.
In the construction field, you may run materials tests, survey sites, and inspect highway or bridge projects throughout the different construction stages.
In the design area, you may prepare estimates and plans for highway construction, do calculations, and operate computer-aided design drafting equipment.
Environmental Specialist
You will work on highway development and improvement projects, considering the various environmental impacts that affect the quality of life. In protecting the environment, work is done in areas that include hazardous waste management, air quality, noise, protection of wetlands and water resources, and the efficient use of land.
Applicable Degree: Any bachelor's degree
Equal Opportunity Specialist
You will work with applicable civil rights and equal opportunity laws, regulations, and precedent decisions to eliminate illegal discrimination and to remove barriers to equal opportunity. You will solve civil rights problems through fact-finding, problem analysis, negotiation, and voluntary compliance programs.
Applicable Degree: Any bachelor's degree
Financial Specialist
You will develop financial controls; interpret and apply special laws, regulations, decisions, and rulings; examine financial transactions to determine legality; and administer programs and systems for issuance, collection, or control of funds.
Applicable Degree: Any bachelor's degree
Highway Engineer
You will be involved in planning, designing, and building highway systems. You will be able to apply your knowledge and gain experience in all phases of highway engineering including economics, route location, design, mass traffic behavior and vehicle characteristics, and highway geometrics. You may work in one of the following areas depending on your aptitudes and interests: hydraulics, geotechnical engineering, bridge design materials, research, or some other specialized area related to highway engineering.
Applicable Degree: Civil Engineering
Management Analyst
You will analyze, evaluate, and provide advice to improve the effectiveness of work methods and procedures, organizations, staff use, distribution or work assignments, delegations of authority, management controls, information and documentation systems, and similar functions of management
Applicable Degree: Any bachelor's degree
Motor Carrier Safety Specialist
You will promote or enforce compliance with Federal laws, standards, and regulations that relate to the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles on the public highways.
Applicable Degree: Any bachelor's degree
Personnel Specialist
As a personnel specialists, you will be involved with the recruitment, pay, administration, motivation, development, and the use of human resources.
Applicable Degree: Business Administration, Political Science, Psychology, Labor Relations, Public Administration
Realty Specialist
You will plan, direct, or provide advice on the acquisition of real estate interests; dispose of real estate at a fair value for the greatest benefit to the Government and the public; and plan and manage real estate to attain its best use from a realty standpoint.
Applicable Degree: Business Administration, Law, Finance, Real Estate
Secretary/Clerk-Typist
You will play an important role in keeping the FHWA operating on a daily basis. Duties vary depending on the office. Your tasks may include the following: receiving visitors and telephone calls; receiving and reviewing all incoming mail; reviewing outgoing correspondence for grammar, format, attachments, continuity of text; scheduling and reminding staff of appointments and meetings; making travel arrangements; and typing a variety of materials and documents.
Transportation Specialist
You will be involved in various activities relating to promoting, monitoring, and administering highway and motor carrier safety programs. These programs vary in nature from the construction of highway, bridges, and tunnels ... to the use of highways by commercial trucking and busing companies for the transportation of freight, people, and hazardous materials. In this position you may develop Federal regulations, economic impact analyses, fuel tax usage analyses, and enforcement/compliance reviews.
Applicable Degree: Accounting, Business Administration, Statistics, Engineering, Finance, Economics, Business and Commercial Law, Commerce, Industrial Management, Traffic Management, Transportation, Motor Mechanics
Writer-Editor
You will write or edit a variety of materials. The FHWA employs writers-editors in areas such as public affairs, administrative support, and highway research. The duties of a writer-editor can range from preparing technical materials to promotional literature. You may write or edit manuals, newsletters, reports, brochures, flyers, audiovisual scripts, news stories, or speeches.
