Civil Engineering Manager I (ATLDOT)

City of Atlanta, GA; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 93,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Atlanta is seeking a seasoned civil engineer to lead transportation design and major capital projects. You will direct design reviews, manage staff and consultants, and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local standards including NACTO guidelines.

The ideal candidate has a BS in civil engineering with 5+ years of experience; a master’s degree is preferred. Strong leadership, budgeting, and communication skills are essential. Office and occasional field work are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering and 5+ years in surveying, engineering design, inspection and drafting.
• Experience managing projects and teams.
• Preferred master's degree with 5+ years in relevant work.

Responsibilities

• Plan and design transportation system solutions.
• Review roadway construction plans and provide recommendations.
• Manage staff and design consultants daily.
• Ensure plans adhere to design standards and guidelines.
• Respond to RFIs from citizens and officials.

Skills

Civil engineering

Project leadership

Public speaking

Staff management

Budget management

CAD

GIS software

Education

Bachelor's in civil engineering

Master's in civil engineering

Tools

CAD software

GIS software

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.

Decision Making:

• 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.

• 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

• 1. Bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
• 2. 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.