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Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
Human Resources
P.O. Box 112500 (mailing)
3132 Channel Drive
Juneau, Alaska 99811-2500
(907) 465-3911 Voice
(907) 465-3412 TTY
Workplace Alaska Jobs Hot Line
(800) 587-0430 (in-state callers)
(907) 465-4095 (out-of-state or Juneau callers).
Alaska DOT&PF’s History
The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is headquartered in the capital city of Juneau. The mission of Alaska DOT&PF is to "Keep Alaska Moving through service and infrastructure."
The Alaska Road Commission, was created in 1905 as a board of the U.S. War Department. It was responsible for the construction and improvement of many important Alaska highways, such as the Richardson, Alaska, Steese, Elliot and Edgerton Highways, among others.
The commission was transferred to the Department of the Interior in 1932, and was absorbed by the Bureau of Public Roads, a division of the Commerce Department in 1956. DOT&PF was established on July 1, 1977, merging the former departments of Highways and Public Works. Today, responsibility for road development and maintenance in Alaska lies with our department.
DOT&PF designs, constructs, operates and maintains the state’s transportation infrastructure systems, buildings, and other facilities used by Alaskans and visitors. These include more than 5,600 miles of paved and gravel highways; 237 airports; 839 bridges; over 800 public facilities; 16 harbors; and a ferry system covering 3,500 nautical miles serving 33 coastal communities.
The department is administratively divided into three regions:
- The Northern Region, headquartered in Fairbanks, is the largest, most geographically diverse, and maintains more centerline miles of highway, including all of the Alaska, Richardson, Taylor, Denali, and Dalton Highways and portions of the Parks and Glenn Highways.
- The Central Region, headquartered in Anchorage, includes the state’s most urban areas, as well as some of the most remote villages on the Kuskokwim delta, the Alaska Peninsula, and the Aleutian Chain. Central Region maintains the Seward and Sterling Highways, as well as parts of the Parks and Glenn Highways.
- The Southcoast Region, headquartered in Juneau, serves the coastal communities of Alaska encompassing a population of 98,000. Currently, only four Southcoast communities are connected to the continental highway system – Skagway, Haines, Hyder, and Valdez.
The Alaska Marine Highway System is headquartered in Ketchikan. From there, AMHS management directs the operation and maintenance of our fleet of nine vessels, ranging in size from the 181 ft. M/V Lituya to the 418 ft. M/V Columbia.
Alaska DOT&PF’s Purpose
Keep Alaska Moving through service and infrastructure.
Impact
- DOT&PF serves every Alaskan, every day
- DOT&PF provides a safe and efficient transportation system for Alaska to thrive
- DOT&PF provides Alaskans with access to goods, services, economic opportunities, each other and the world
Core Values
- Integrity: Doing the right thing even when no one is watching. Doing what you say you are going to do
- Excellence: Commitment to continually improve
- Respect: Positive regard for customers, stakeholders, investors and colleagues
- Safety: Commitment to safeguarding transportation systems and users while promoting a safety culture in the workplace
DOT&PF Vision
Moving beyond Alaska’s challenges while meeting Alaskans’ distinct transportation needs through trust, teamwork, and results
Weekly Featured Position
Traffic & Safety Engineer
Open until April 3, 2023 5:00 PM Alaska
Salary: $3,812 bi-weekly (R24)
Location: Anchorage, AK
Central Design and Engineering Services
Job Type: Full-time
Position Open To: Alaska Residents Only
Bargaining Unit: Supervisory
This position serves as the Central Region Traffic & Safety Engineer based in Anchorage, Alaska. The Traffic & Safety Engineer manages, plans, evaluates, and guides all traffic safety-related systems and performance within Central Region. The position manages the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) for Central Region. The HSIP specifically targets reducing fatalities and severe injury crashes on Alaska's roadways. The Traffic & Safety Engineer also serves as a technical expert on issues such as traffic studies and crash analyses, guardrails, speed studies, intersection traffic control, signing, striping and highway illumination.
Your office will be located at 4111 Aviation Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska. This work location allows you many options to live and play near a wide range of fantastic outdoor areas and urban community activities. The office building is generally comprised of cubicles and office space and organized by departmental sections and teams, including the Traffic, Safety & Utilities Section, Traffic Safety group in which this position resides. This position requires occasional travel, primarily day-trips but sometimes overnight trips, within southcentral Alaska (normally 2-3 trips per summer month). Occasional attendance at evening meetings may also be required.
Minimum Qualifications: Registration as a professional engineer (PE) or professional architect, and two years of professional engineering or architectural experience as an Engineer 1, Architectural Assistant 3 or higher with the State of Alaska, or the equivalent elsewhere.
Questions? Contact Cynthia Ferguson, P.E. via email
Note: Requires moderate physical labor which includes lifting and carrying weights up to 50 pounds.