Patrick Tienter, Eit Email & Phone Number

- Coordinate with PennDOT district design staff, bridge inspection staff, county maintenance, and district maintenance to plan, schedule, and facilitate maintenance to state owned bridges. Planning can be short term for urgent repairs and long term for planned annual maintenance. - Planning includes determining the proper repair, assessing the priority of the repair relative to other needed maintenance, determining if county maintenance has the capacity to perform the repair or if it is to be contracted out, estimation of quantity of material needed for repair, determining what equipment will be needed for repair, estimation of timeframe for repair, and any further coordination needed such as traffic control, traffic detours, environmental permitting, environmental restrictions, and financial restraints. - Maintenance includes but is not limited to: scour control, repairs to concrete, steel, stone masonry, and/or timber, sediment and/or debris removal, repair or replacement of bridge safety features and replacement of bridge components. - Acquire environmental permits required for bridge maintenance including Chapter 105 General Permits and EXX-9999 Permits.- Provide field guidance to PennDOT county maintenance crews performing maintenance on bridges in the form of answering questions and using engineering judgement to make field decisions. - Assure bridge maintenance was completed correctly and document its completion. Completion of maintenance is to be documented by PennDOT Bridge Maintenance System, SAP, and Keystone Environmental ePermitting System if any permits were acquired.

Dunmore, Pa

This position is in the environmental unit for District 4. This position with the department involves analysis of the environmental impacts of existing and future projects in District 4. This involves environmental scoping, wetland delineation, stream use and designation, and historic property identification.

Dunmore, Pennsylvania, United States

As a trainee with PennDOT I am currently rotating throughout PennDOT District 4 (Northeast PA area) to learn about the various roles and responsibilities throughout the district. These rotations encompass the areas of design, maintenance, and construction. This has exposed me to a great deal of what the field of transportation engineering has to offer, such as: roadway design, bridge design, maintenance and protection of traffic, traffic planning, construction inspection, environmental planning, maintenance permits, and much more.

- Worked with traffic camera data to make sure videos were properly spliced, traffic counts were correct and uploaded to Excel, and helping with installation/removal of cameras.- Used relevant literature such as traffic studies, executive summaries of the studies, and PennDOT publications to gather information for projects.- Analyzed traffic construction plans to estimate costs for pavement removal, sign replacement, painting lines, etc.- Used traffic data to create documents summarizing patterns of interest including those relevant to traffic accidents, traffic counts, and road signage- Created lane diagrams using Microsoft Visio- Assisted with CAD designs for traffic

Bachelor'S Degree, Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: Institute of Transportation Engineers, Multicultural Engineering Program, Fresh Start Day of Service

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Varsity Football, Varsity Track and Field, Shakespeare Festival, Quiz Bowl