Architecture and Engineering Services

Concept of Work
This Career Group provides career tracks for architects and engineers that apply architectural or engineering principles and practices to specialized architecture/engineering or management disciplines. Employees perform responsibilities ranging from entry-level engineers to executive level managers. Licensure may be required as specified in accordance with the Code of Virginia, Title 54.1.
Roles Comprising This Group
These roles describe the collective characteristics of the work performed by employees in the Architecture and Engineering Services Career Group. The roles define the typical career paths for architects or engineers who pursue careers in specialty areas, such as Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Rehabilitation, Structural, Transportation, Traffic, Materials, Environmental and Safety, and others. See list of various specialty areas listed in the Architectural/Engineering Descriptors.
Although all of these occupations are related, each warrants a separate career track. Each of these career paths requires different knowledge, skills, and abilities and may not naturally lead to the other for career progression. However, a role for each of these occupations represents different levels of work, or career progression. Career paths may exist within a single role, extend to other roles in this Career Group, or to roles in other occupationally related Career Groups.
The Architect/Engineer I role provides career tracks for architects or engineers whose expertise levels range from trainee to advanced level. Responsibilities include applying architecture/engineering principles and practices to projects of varying complexity in specialty areas. Specialty areas include those requiring knowledge of civil, environmental, structural, mechanical, electrical, transportation, traffic, safety, materials, or rehabilitation engineering and architecture.