Brandon Jones

Brandon joined Carolina TEA in January 2025 as a partner and to focus on North Carolina growth. Brandon has over 30 years experience in the transportation industry and retired from NCDOT at the end of 2024 as the Division Engineer for Division 5. He started his career with NCDOT as an engineering associate and served as an assistant district engineer in Division 4, assistant resident engineer in Division 5 and assistant district engineer in the Division 5 Wake County office before moving to the private sector. Brandon worked as a project manager for two different Raleigh area grading contractors before coming back to NCDOT as the District Engineer in Wake County. Brandon lead the implementation of many process improvements involving access permits, encroachment agreements and maintenance contracts prior to furthering his career in Division 5 as the Division operations and then maintenance engineer where he oversaw the planning, budgeting, contracting and implementation of roadway and bridge maintenance activities for the seven counties in Division 5. Brandon was promoted to deputy Division Engineer before being appointed as the Division Engineer for Division 8 and finally completing his NCDOT career as the Division Engineer in Division 5.