This position is located at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) in McLean, Virginia. The ideal candidate for this position has broad pavement expertise, understands highway agency needs and has experience planning, overseeing and promoting research and development activities associated with pavement surface characteristics, pavement safety and infrastructure resilience. He/she also has good project management skills, as well as excellent written and oral communication skills.

The announcement is open until 4/10/2020.

Here is the link to the vacancy announcement on the USAJOBS site: Open to both U.S. Citizens and Federal Employees: FHWA.HRT-2020-0005: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/564209600   

If you have strong experience and interests in working with internal and external stakeholders that can make a difference, and have a desire to improve pavement safety and infrastructure resilience, then FHWA’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center is where you want to be! 

If you have strong experience and interests in working with internal and external stakeholders that can make a difference, and have a desire to improve pavement safety and infrastructure resilience, then FHWA’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center is where you want to be! The Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center is a federally owned and operated national research facility located on a scenic, wooded campus in McLean, Virginia.  Our center houses nearly 20 laboratories, and support facilities, and conducts applied and exploratory advanced research on innovative technologies for the design, construction, inspection, operation, management, and preservation of the highway infrastructure, in vehicle-highway interaction, safety, operations, nanotechnology, and a host of other types of transportation research.  It also has free parking!

The Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center is a federally owned and operated national research facility located on a scenic, wooded campus in McLean, Virginia.  Our center houses nearly 20 laboratories, and support facilities, and conducts applied and exploratory advanced research on innovative technologies for the design, construction, inspection, operation, management, and preservation of the highway infrastructure, in vehicle-highway interaction, safety, operations, nanotechnology, and a host of other types of transportation research.  It also has free parking!

At Turner-Fairbank, you’ll be just minutes from picturesque Washington, DC and all that it has to offer: an extraordinarily rich history, world-class entertainment and arts, luxurious dining establishments, countless museums, and all the grandeur of the Nation’s capital.

As our TFHRC Highway Research Engineer, you will work with the Team Leader to:

• Coordinate and manage the FHWA’s pavement surface characteristics research program;
• Provides expert knowledge in pavement safety applications;
• Plan, initiate, evaluate, conduct, promote, coordinate, and monitor internal and external research activities in the areas of infrastructure resiliency.
  

Come share your valuable expertise and ideas with Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, and play an integral part in improving the safety and resilience of highways and byways of our nation and the world!