Civil Engineering Manager I (ATLDOT)

City of Atlanta; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Atlanta seeks a senior civil engineer to manage professional/technical transportation projects, oversee design, review standards, survey work, and inspections. This role leads major capital improvement design efforts to keep Atlanta's infrastructure functional for citizens and businesses.

You will supervise staff and design consultants, provide technical input, ensure compliance with federal/state/local standards (NACTO, ADA/PROWAG), and mentor junior engineers while advancing projects

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience in surveying, engineering design, inspection and drafting, including management experience.
• Preferred: master’s degree and 5 years of experience in surveying, engineering design, inspection and drafting including management experience.

Responsibilities

• Plans and designs solutions to transportation challenges and problems in the roadway system.
• Reviews roadway construction plans, approves, and makes recommendations.
• Manages staff and design consultants and directs their daily activity.
• Prepares exhibits and cost estimates for construction design projects and informs staff and applicants.
• Responds to RFIs from citizens, council members, city employees, etc.
• Ensures plans adhere to federal, state, and local roadway design standards (NACTO, ADA/PROWAG).

Skills

Public speaking

Leadership

Project management

CAD

GIS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering

Master’s degree in civil engineering (preferred)

Tools

CAD software

GIS equipment

Job description

Job Description Posting Expires:10/13/2026

Salary

$103,204.93 General Description and Classification Standards: Manages professional/technical engineering projects including engineering design and review, standards, survey work, inspections, and other engineering project components. Oversees major capital improvement project design, designs linear infrastructure of various lengths, prepares construction plans for contractors to follow, provides solutions for infrastructure projects to keep the City of Atlanta's infrastructure functional for its current and future corporate and private citizens. Supports a full range of Planning & Development operations by delivering this data in formats and in applications that supports critical planning, engineering, and decision support activities across the enterprise. This is a highly experienced professional who routinely exercises project leadership over complex projects, trains other professionals, or serves as a specialized subject matter expert in one or more specific areas. This is NOT a routine promotional level and the specific justification for classification at this level must be documented. Supervision Received:

• Works under very general supervision. Depending on organization structure, may work independently with responsibility for an assigned function or program.
• Selects from multiple procedures and methods to accomplish tasks. May make purchasing or resource allocations consistent with organizational policies and guidelines.
• Utilizes managerial authority over a group of professional employees and/or a group of professional, technical, or administrative employees with multiple intermediate supervisors and/or team leaders.
• Makes sound judgements to make recommendations. Essential Duties and

Responsibilities

These are typical responsibilities for this position and should not be construed as exclusive or all inclusive. Researches and prepares guidelines for alternative material and construction installation methods for use in the road projects.

• Plans and designs solutions to individual challenges and problems in the transportation system.
• Reviews various roadway construction plans, approves, and make recommendations.
• Receives, documents, processes, and performs engineering analysis on roadway design projects.
• Prepares exhibits and cost estimates for potential construction design projects informs city staff and applicants.
• Responds to Request for Information (RFI's) from citizens, council members, city employees, etc.
• Manages staff and design consultants and directs their daily activity as required.
• Provides technical input, documents research, manages design budget, process invoices, and attends project meetings as part of providing professional insight and support.
• Ensures that plans adhere to federal, state, and local roadway design standards, policies, guides, and including National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) guidelines.
• Conducts research to ensure that best practices including safe, and cost-effective methods are used designing and reviewing transportation infrastructures. Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local roadway design standards, policies, guides, and research. Experience with AASHTO, GDOT, and City of Atlanta guidance and ADA/PROWAG design requirements.
• Have experience with AASHTO, GDOT, and City of Atlanta guides and ADA/PROWAG design requirements.
• Extensive knowledge of civil engineering and roadway engineering design, transportation construction, computer aided design (CAD) systems, and traffic engineering.
• Working knowledge of drafting, working knowledge of public works construction.
• Skills in public speaking and interpersonal relations with data between platforms with no loss of spatial accuracy or feature attribution.
• Skill in providing excellent leadership to lower-level engineers and project staff.
• Ability to operate personal computer, digitizer, plotters, and related GIS equipment.
• Ability to design and develop relational databases.
• Ability to instruct others in the operation and use of engineering software.
• Ability to direct the work of others.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, other divisions and the public.
• Ability to follow written and oral instructions.
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
• Ability to read, interpret and produce maps, surveys, engineering drawings and graphics from engineering software.

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience in surveying, engineering design, inspection and drafting, including management experience. Preferred Requirements – The ideal candidate has a master’s degree in civil engineering and 5 years' of experience in surveying, engineering design, inspection and drafting including management experience. Licenses – Valid Driver’s License

Work Environment

Required physical and sensory capabilities to perform the job successfully. Typical environmental conditions associated with office work and in-person reporting at least 4-5 days per week. May require occasional field/site visits. Lifting

Requirements

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.