Career Paths
Engineering

The Ministry of Transportation's engineers meet new technical challenges every day – from planning multi-year projects to rehabilitation and maintenance to traffic planning to seismic retrofitting -- in a constant drive for quality, efficiency, and customer service.

As a professional engineer with the Ministry you can expect to be involved in setting policies, guidelines and standards that directly affect the highway infrastructure in British Columbia. You will lend your technical expertise and experience to projects, ensuring the end product meets or exceeds the ministry's standards and expectations.

The Ministry of Transportation offers a wide variety of opportunities to bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D.-level engineers in the following fields:

• Civil Engineering (Transportation Planning, Traffic, Geometric Design)
• Electrical Engineering
• Structural Engineering (Hydraulic, Bridge)
• Geotechnical / Geosciences Engineering

Our Engineer-in-Training Program provides an early-career opportunity to experience the diversity of the Ministry of Transportation through a series of rotational developmental assignments working under the mentorship of Professional Engineers and designed to give you the experience you need to attain your Professional Engineering designation.

For more information on Professional Engineering designations in British Columbia see: http://www.apeg.bc.ca/

For more information on the Professional Employees Association please see: http://www.pea.org/