Design Manager - Highways

Jacobs Engineering India Private Limited; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs Engineering India Private Limited is seeking a Design Manager - Highways to lead highway design efforts, guide multi-disciplinary teams, and ensure delivery of complex road projects with quality and on-time performance.

The role requires 15+ years of highway design experience, BE Civil, Chartered status, and proficiency in Civil3D/OpenRoads Designer, AutoCAD or MicroStation, and collaboration across offices.

Qualifications

• BE Degree in Civil Engineering /Post-Graduation in Transportation/Highway Engineering.
• Chartered Civil Engineer or equivalent, or currently pursuing professional qualification from a recognized academic institution.
• 15+ years' experience in Highway engineering design.

Responsibilities

• Technical competence in detailed highways geometry design using Civil 3D/Open Road Designer and able to independently deliver work and integrate with larger project team.
• Responsible to lead the multi-disciplinary project delivery and able to perform as design manager.
• Clear knowledge of work procedures, and ability to brief project team on them and responsible for completion of projects to time and cost.
• Assists in the leadership of functional teams or projects.
• Communicating with counterpart in lead office/Client and Coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams on project delivery.
• Able to realistically estimate pricing associated with projects within their area of expertise.

Skills

Highway design

Civil 3D

OpenRoads Designer

AutoCAD

MicroStation

Project leadership

MS Excel

Education

BE Civil Engineering

Chartered Civil Engineer

Tools

OpenRoads Designer

Civil 3D

AutoCAD

MicroStation

PDS Signs

PDS Lines

ProjectWise

BIM360

Job description

JOB TITLE: Design Manager - Highways

ROLE:

Motivated and experienced Road Design Engineer who can utilize his or her strong technical and project management skills to deliver highways-related infrastructure projects. As a Senior member of the high performing team, you will be given the opportunity to lead Functional teams or projects and serve as a best practice/quality resource. You will guide others in resolving complex issues in specialized area based on existing solutions and procedures.

By motivating, inspiring, and holding your team to account, you will ensure solution to complex problems and bring in innovative solutions. This role will see you working with multi-discipline engineers and designers in a fast-paced environment whilst supporting a strong pipeline of existing projects, ranging in size and scope, as well as working on several major pursuits to continue the projected growth of our business.

KEY COMPETENCY Technical Skills

• Understanding of engineering standards (DMRB/AASHTO/Australian/Middle East), codes of practice, local authorities' guidelines and offer new ideas to improve solutions and processes.
• Lead Functional teams or Projects.
• Able to author competent technical reports of acceptable technical and presentational quality.
• Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices.
• Develop broad technical competence and able to check work of all those in the project team.

KEY COMPETENCY Soft Skills

• Minimum 10 years of proven highway design experience with software proficiency in Open Roads Designer or Civil3D.
• Proficient in AutoCAD or MicroStation, PDS Signs, PDS Lines, Auto Track, MS Word, and MS Excel.
• Working knowledge of CDE platform (Common Data Environment) i.e., ProjectWise, ACC or BIM360.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical competence in detailed highways geometry design using Civil 3D/Open Road Designer and able to independently deliver work and integrate with larger project team.
• Responsible to lead the multi-disciplinary project delivery and able to perform as design manager.
• Clear knowledge of work procedures, and ability to brief project team on them and responsible for completion of projects to time and cost.
• Assists in the leadership of functional teams or projects.
• Communicating with counterpart in lead office/Client and Coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams on project delivery.
• Able to realistically estimate pricing associated with projects within their area of expertise.

REPORTING:

Technical Director/Team Manager

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Here's what you'll need

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BE Degree in Civil Engineering /Post-Graduation in Transportation/Highway Engineering.
• Chartered Civil Engineer or equivalent, or currently pursuing professional qualification from a recognized academic institution.

EXPERIENCE:

• 15+ years' experience in Highway engineering design.