Senior Highway Engineer

HNTB; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

HNTB seeks a Senior Project Engineer to join our highway design team in Florida, delivering major conventional and alternative delivery projects. The role includes advanced engineering, coordination with planning, environmental, and traffic teams, and ensuring high-quality execution of technical and contractual requirements.

You'll mentor staff, manage scope and budgets, and contribute to marketing efforts like proposals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with 8+ years of relevant experience, or
• Master’s degree in Engineering with 7+ years of relevant experience, or
• PhD in Engineering with 6+ years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Use senior technical expertise to evaluate a broad range of engineering solutions.
• Lead planning, work distribution, and adherence to schedule and budget on complex projects.
• Assist in marketing responsibilities, including proposal generation.
• Develop scope of work and manage level of effort to meet scope and budget.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to team members.
• Coordinate with client and partners on technical aspects of the project.
• Lead discipline delivery on large multi-disciplinary projects.

Skills

Technical expertise

Project leadership

Budget management

Mentoring

Client coordination

Scheduling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Master’s degree in Engineering

PhD in Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project controls

Job description

What We're Looking For

The Senior Project Engineer serves as an experienced and highly collaborative member of the highway design team, supporting the delivery of major conventional as well as alternative delivery projects. This role provides advanced engineering, coordination, , preconstruction, and program-level technical activities. This position works closely with planning, engineering, environmental, project controls and traffic teams to advance complex infrastructure projects, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and high-quality execution of technical, environmental, and contractual requirements.

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

What You'll Do

• Uses senior-level technical expertise to consider broad range of engineering solutions.
• Responsible for the discipline-specific planning, work distribution, and leadership and adherence to the schedule, and budget on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Assists in marketing responsibilities, including proposal generation.
• Develops scope of work and level of effort and manages adherence to scope and budget on complex or unusual engineering projects within discipline.
• Oversees completeness and accuracy of project team’s work within the technical discipline.
• Provides technical guidance and mentoring to team members to achieve overall project objectives on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Coordinates technical aspects of the project with client counterpart and teaming partners at staff level for work within the discipline on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Leads discipline delivery on larger, multi-disciplinary projects. Works closely with other disciplines on multi-discipline projects.
• Assists with coordination and planning of schedules, hours, and distribution of work for other disciplines on multi-discipline projects on complex or unusual engineering projects
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 8 years of relevant experience, or
• Master’s degree in Engineering and 7 years of relevant experience, or
• PhD in Engineering and 6 years of relevant experience

What You'll Bring

• Shows excellent technical knowledge and quality work in multiple discipline projects.
• Prioritizes tasks and displays accountability to the project team to deliver projects that are of high quality, on-time, and within budget and scope.
• Demonstrates vision beyond the task at hand and anticipates risks and effects of their actions.
• Understands and supports the objectives that are responsible for successful project delivery, recognizing how multiple disciplines influence project development
• Applies an accrued knowledge base to innovate project efficiencies.
• Uses refined technical skills to identify problems, develop appropriate solutions, and make good decisions, knowing what tools to use for effective solutions and optimal outcomes on projects.
• Applies experience to engage with diverse public clients.

What We Prefer

• 10 years of relevant experience.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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Locations

• Bartow, FL
• Tampa, FL

Job Type: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full time

Job Category: Engineering Group

ReqID: R-32252