Senior Engineer

Arcadis; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to join our Mobility Advisory group in Vancouver, Canada. This role focuses on municipal roadway design and offers the chance to lead impactful projects that enhance community safety and sustainability.

The candidate will engage with a multidisciplinary team, applying deep municipal design expertise to deliver technically sound solutions. Responsibilities include preparing technical design documents, coordinating with various specialties, and ensuring compliance with municipal standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Must be a P.Eng in Alberta or BC.

Responsibilities

• Provide transportation engineering design and technical expertise.
• Prepare conceptual, preliminary, and detailed cost estimates.
• Coordinate delivery of technical designs to meet project objectives.

Skills

Transportation engineering design

Municipal roadway expertise

Stormwater analysis and design

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's University Degree in Civil or Transportation Engineering

P.Eng in Alberta or BC

Job description

Role Description

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Design Engineer, Transportation, to join our Mobility Advisory group in western Canada. We are looking for an experienced Transportation Design Engineer to help shape the future of municipal roadway, active transportation, linear infrastructure, and transit projects across Western Canada.

This role offers the opportunity to lead meaningful, visible projects that improve communities and move people more safely and sustainably.

Working with a collaborative, multidisciplinary team, this role will apply deep municipal roadway design expertise to deliver technically robust, constructible solutions. Responsibilities include detailed calculations and model creation through drawing production, plans, section details, specifications, and engineering reports.

Role Accountabilities

In this role you will provide transportation engineering design and technical expertise with a clear focus on municipal roadway projects, taking responsibility for detailed calculations, model creation, and drawing production while developing plans, cross-sections, pavement and curb details, associated engineering reports, and contract specifications for a wide variety of infrastructure works.

You will prepare conceptual, preliminary, and detailed cost estimates and rigorously review project documents prior to issue to verify scope, presentation, and technical accuracy—ensuring compliance with municipal standards, constructability, and procurement readiness.

The role involves coordinating the delivery of technical designs to meet cost, schedule, and quality objectives by producing full design packages and working closely with other engineering disciplines and technical specialists to integrate roadway design with utilities, drainage, traffic control, and environmental requirements while meeting stakeholder and municipal criteria.

This position requires applying a working knowledge of stormwater analysis and design together with strong interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills; you will be task‑oriented, committed to high-quality work and attention to detail, and able to work independently and effectively within diverse project teams to deliver reliable, constructible municipal roadway solutions.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's University Degree in Civil or Transportation Engineering
• P.Eng in Alberta or BC