Senior Alternative Delivery Design Engineer

Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction is seeking a Senior Alternative Delivery Design Engineer to provide engineering design services for design-build highway projects in collaboration with Pursuit and Estimating Teams.

You will lead roadway design for major transportation projects, develop alternative concepts, and ensure designs meet RFP requirements while coordinating with project managers and consultants to quantify scope and costs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Civil Engineering required.
• 3–5 years of progressive roadway design experience.
• Experience with Microstation and InRoads; BIM modeling preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead roadway design for major transportation projects and review roadway models.
• Coordinate with design, pursuit, and estimating teams to develop compliant designs.
• Develop alternative concepts and ATCs; compare against baselines; ensure proposals and designs meet RFP requirements.
• Assist in coordinating design deliverables with consultants and quantifying scope for project components.

Skills

Communication

Time management

Team player

Self-motivation

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

Microstation

InRoads

BIM Modeling

Job description

Position Description

Provide engineering design services for design-build highway projects. You will collaborate with our Design-Build Pursuit and Estimating Teams to develop new ideas, MOT strategies and alternatives on highway projects. You will collaborate with other members of our Team to conceptualize the initial design approach for interchanges, highways, roadways, bridges and walls for large transportation related projects.

In addition to Design, work within Task Force Meetings to optimize current Designs and provide efficiencies in design and construction.

• The position of Senior Alternative Delivery Design Engineer requires that the candidate be detail-oriented in order to ensure all aspects of our Designs, Proposals and/or estimates are compliant, correct, and complete. This position also requires the candidate to multi-task numerous competing deadlines; therefore, candidate should be proactive and be able to work independently. Finally, the successful candidate will have excellent communication skills in order to keep the Pursuit team up-to-date and informed at every phase of Proposal and Design development.

Position Requirements

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS, DUTIES AND JOB FUNCTIONS

• Roadway Design Lead for major transportation projecting including the design and review of roadway models.


• Reviews and interprets RFP requirements to develop comprehensive, compliant roadway designs.


• Collaborates with project managers and estimating teams to brainstorm strategy and approach and ensure decisions are compliant with the RFP.


• Minimum of 3-5 years of progressive roadway design experience is required in including performing design of various aspects of transportation infrastructure such as highways, arterial streets, interchanges, MOT, and wall profiles.


• Develop alternative concepts, ATC’s and compare them against baseline concepts from a quantity, cost and performance perspective.


• Develop new alternatives, alignments, profiles, interchange types and compare them against baseline design concepts.


• Experience with Microstation / InRoads


• Experience with Intelligent Design/ 3D or BIM Modeling is preferred.


• You will coordinate design deliverables from our design consultants and assist our Estimating Teams in quantifying scope for various parts of the project.


• Utilizing Microstation and InRoads develop quantities for cost estimates


• Assist the Estimating group in estimating of key aspects of highway projects


• Track RFP and addendum releases, and incorporate these requirements into our designs.


• Assist the pursuit team with exhibits pulled from our Designs for the use in Proposals.


• Performs related work as assigned.


• Work within stringent time frames to meet proposal deadlines


• A Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Civil Engineering is required


• Familiarity with the construction industry


• Be self-motivated and able to work with limited supervision and as a team player

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in the English language


• Highly organized, detailed oriented, and display strong time-management skills.


• Proficiency in Microstation and InRoads


• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point.


• Ability to work well under pressure, meeting tight, multiple, and sometimes conflicting deadlines.


• Ability to set priorities and multi-task.


• Ability to think strategically, apply sound judgment, is resourceful, troubleshoot, and take initiative.

All candidates must pass background prescreen and pre-employment drug test.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer: We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, genetic information, marital status, military status, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.