Transportation Systems Analyst Senior - Kanawha County

Nature of Work

The Transportation Systems Analyst Senior will report to the Highway Data Services Unit in the Information Technology Division. This position performs advanced level work researching, analyzing, and planning the impact of, or bidding highway construction and maintenance projects. Incumbent should be detail-oriented professional with a strong background in digital data management, public information services, and the administrative oversight of official records. Should be highly skilled at managing complex, multi-step workflows—including historical research, document preparation, and public outreach—to ensure organizational databases remain accurate and legally compliant. An ideal candidate should have a proven ability to translate technical or historical data into accessible digital formats while maintaining strict adherence to established policies and professional standards. GIS experience is beneficial. Should be a proactive communicator adept at facilitating virtual meetings and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to support state infrastructure updates. Position has latitude to independently choose procedures and guidelines to apply to the tasks. Complexity of duties are varied, may involve different and unrelated methods and processes. Distinguishing factor is advanced level and complexity of work, as well as serving as a lead worker over lower level analysts in this series. Travel may be required to collect data and conduct field studies. Performs related duties as required.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Edits, proofreads, and writes transportation reports.
• Collects and analyzes data and evaluates economic, environmental, and social impact of projects.
• Compiles technical and analytical findings into a required document such as assessments, categorical exclusions, impact statements, state management plans, project guides, state transportation improvement programs, or application packets.
• Designs and conducts field surveys, questionnaire surveys, and field reviews to collect data for transportation studies.
• Writes correspondence and reports to be sent to the Federal Highway Administration and/or the Federal Transit Administration regarding necessary amount of funds, scope of work, and revision of project plans and/or grant requirements.
• Collects and researches data such as air, soil and water quality from reports of federal or state agencies, permits, or through field reviews of proposed, existing, or abandoned sites.
• Develops charts, graphs, tables, maps, schedules, and other illustrations for use in transportation reports.
• Assigns, schedules, and directs work of other Transportation Systems Analysts.
• Applies for, reports, monitors, and closes out federal transit grant programs.
• Develops specifications for the procurement process regarding capital equipment and third-party contracts.
• Procures capital equipment and programs and/or materials under third party contracts.
• Oversees grant compliance by providing all grantees the requirements of federal regulations and monitoring their compliance.
• Oversees grant compliance in areas such as Disadvantaged Business Enterprises, Equal Employment Opportunities, the Americans With Disabilities Act and Civil Rights.
• Financial oversight over a complex transit grant program.
• Recommends corrective action if needed.
• Travel may be required; therefore, a valid driver’s license is required.

Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of methods and techniques used in the collection, evaluation, and organization of data.
• Knowledge of the objectives, methodologies, and principles of planning.
• Knowledge of principles and practices of environmental analysis.
• Knowledge of the effects of environmental projects on human and natural resources and ecological relationships.
• Knowledge of transportation grants and federal requirements.
• Ability to orally communicate the purpose of obtaining, imparting, or exchanging information.
• Ability to collect, evaluate, and organize data for use in transportation programs, to draw valid conclusions from data.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other Department of Transportation employees, grantees, and federal officials.
• Ability to assign, schedule, and direct work of other Transportation Systems Analysts.

Minimum Requirements

REQUIRED TRAINING/EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
• Substitution: Full-time or equivalent part-time paid experience in the research, analysis, planning, bidding, or administration of highway construction and maintenance projects or managing transit grant programs may be substituted for the required training/education through an established formula.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Four (4) years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid experience in the research, analysis, planning, bidding, or administration of highway construction and maintenance projects or managing transit grant programs.
• Substitution: Successful completion of graduate coursework from a regionally accredited college or university in transportation, urban or regional planning, engineering, economics, statistics, mathematics, geography, business administration, public administration, environmental studies, history, archeology, in the physical or natural sciences, or related field may be substitute for two (2) years of the required experience through an established formula.