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Elkhart County approves highway engineering reclassification, adds CDL drivers; approves one non‑CDL position
Summary
The county approved a reclassification in the Highway Department to create an engineering service manager and approved two new multipurpose CDL driver positions; commissioners later approved one of two requested non‑CDL positions after additional votes.
The Elkhart County Board of Commissioners voted to reclassify an existing project engineer position into an engineering service manager and approved two new multipurpose commercial driver’s license (CDL) positions for the Highway Department.
Kyle Wagner of the Highway Department described the reclassification as part of a career development structure for engineering staff and said it would create an engineering service manager who would supervise five positions and report to the county engineer. “Currently, the county engineer, the whole engineering department manages over 40 capital projects, totaling in the amount of a $150,000,000 in project values,” Wagner said, adding that the county engineer currently has 14 direct reports and is “pretty stretched thin.”
Wagner told commissioners the change would not remove project‑engineer duties but would add formal supervisory responsibility and simplify the executive pay…
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