Civil Service Commission votes to delete four engineering job classifications

The Civil Service Commission voted July 15 to delete four legacy engineering job classifications, saying the roles have been absorbed into an updated professional engineering progression.

The commission approved Resolution 2025-07 to remove SPN 208 (Traffic Engineering Assistant), SPN 237 (Bridge Engineer), SPN 252 (Associate Traffic Engineer) and SPN 255 (Senior Traffic Engineer). "Management and the M and P Association concur on these deletions," the chief examiner told commissioners during the presentation.

The move follows a comprehensive classification study of engineering functions that placed the duties previously associated with those SPNs into the broader professional engineering progression. Commissioners asked whether the classifications could be reinstated in future administrations; the chief examiner said such classifications could be brought back through the same civil service process if a future administration deemed it necessary.

The chief examiner also confirmed that employees who had held those classifications were moved into the updated engineering classifications and that the listed classifications are no longer in active use. The commission called the question and, with all present commissioners voting in favor, the motion passed.

The deletion affects the official classification list used for certification and hiring but does not itself change labor agreements; the chief examiner noted that management and bargaining units were consulted and concurred. The commission did not identify any immediate changes to current employees' pay or assignments at the meeting.

Documents discussed at the meeting list the four SPNs and state that the deletions are intended to reflect the updated classification structure adopted after the study.