Intermediate Transportation Designer

Golder Associates Ltd.; Colombia; Presencial; COP 164.718.000 - 223.545.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

WSP Canada in Dartmouth (Nova Scotia) seeks an experienced Intermediate Transportation Designer to plan and design roadway, intersection, roundabout, and active transportation projects for municipal, provincial, and private clients.

You will prepare drawings, design briefs, and cost estimates, applying standards and sound engineering judgement to create practical, constructible solutions. Collaboration with stakeholders and mentoring junior staff are key aspects.

Formación

• Degree in Civil Engineering with focus on transportation engineering or municipal infrastructure.
• Licensed as a Professional Engineer or eligible for P.Eng designation.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in transportation engineering and design.
• Strong knowledge of roadway, intersection, roundabout, and active transportation design.

Responsabilidades

• Support and lead components of transportation design assignments including roadways, intersections, roundabouts, and active transportation.
• Prepare and review design drawings, briefs, memos, quantities, and estimates.
• Apply design standards and sound engineering judgment to deliver practical solutions.
• Coordinate with clients, authorities, and internal teams to support project delivery.
• Provide technical direction to junior staff and designers.

Conocimientos

Transportation design

Multimodal design

Team collaboration

Communication

Educación

Civil Engineering degree

P.Eng eligible

Herramientas

AutoCAD

Civil 3D

AutoTURN

Descripción del empleo

Job Description - Intermediate Transportation Designer (26001416)

Intermediate Transportation Designer - ( 26001416 )

Design What Comes Next - Intermediate Transportation Designer

Join our Transportation & Infrastructure team in Dartmouth and help deliver transportation solutions that improve mobility, safety, and connectivity for communities across Nova Scotia. As a Transportation Design Engineer, you will play a key role in the planning and design of roadway, intersection, roundabout, active transportation, transit, and access infrastructure projects for municipal, provincial, and private sector clients while contributing to technically sound, practical, and constructible outcomes.

Your Impact

Support and lead components of transportation design assignments, including roadway corridors, signalized intersections, roundabouts, active transportation facilities, transit priority elements, site access, parking, loading, and circulation improvements.

Prepare and review functional, preliminary, and detailed design drawings, design briefs, technical memoranda, quantities, cost estimates, and supporting documentation.

Apply transportation design standards, guidelines, and sound engineering judgement to develop practical, safe, and constructible design solutions.

Complete and coordinate roadway design elements including alignments, grading, intersection layouts, roundabout geometry, pavement markings, signage, traffic control devices, and active transportation facilities.

Develop and review signalized intersection and roundabout design elements, including multimodal accommodations, geometric layouts, design vehicle checks, pavement markings, and signage.

Undertake site plan and access reviews, including loading, parking, circulation, sightline, and AutoTURN assessments, and provide technical recommendations.

Coordinate with internal disciplines, clients, municipalities, road authorities, and project managers to support effective project delivery and provide technical direction to junior staff and designers.

Support project management, proposal development, client communication, field reviews, and construction-phase activities as required.

The Skills That Set You Apart

Degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline with a focus on transportation engineering, roadway design, or municipal infrastructure.

Licensed as a Professional Engineer, or eligible for P.Eng. designation with Engineers Nova Scotia.

5+ years of progressive experience in transportation engineering, including experience supporting or leading transportation design assignments.

Strong working knowledge of roadway design, signalized intersection design, roundabout design, active transportation, transit, site access, parking, loading, and circulation design principles.

Demonstrated experience developing or reviewing transportation design elements including geometric layouts, multimodal accommodation, pavement markings, signage, and design vehicle considerations.

Experience using AutoCAD, Civil 3D, AutoTURN, and related design tools to prepare, review, and coordinate transportation design deliverables.

Working knowledge of TAC guidance, municipal standards, provincial requirements, accessibility considerations, and complete streets principles.

Strong communication, project coordination, technical review, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to support multidisciplinary project delivery.

Why Choose WSP?

Why Choose WSP? We exist to shape communities to advance humanity. The brightest engineers, advisors and scientists from across the globe call WSP home. Proudly Canadian – we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026.