Senior Transportation Engineer

Stanley Consultants, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Transportation Engineer to lead exciting projects in Austin, Texas. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your extensive experience to manage and design complex transportation projects, ensuring quality and compliance while mentoring junior staff. This innovative firm values work-life balance, offering a hybrid work schedule that includes flexible work options. Join a team that is committed to making a difference in the community and advancing your professional growth through comprehensive benefits and opportunities for development. If you're passionate about transportation engineering and ready to take on new challenges, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Paid Time Off

Health Services

Tuition Assistance

401K Match

Flexible Work Schedule

Professional Development Leave

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in transportation engineering required.
• Texas PE license is mandatory for this role.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor design staff on various transportation projects.
• Manage projects with clients like Texas DOT and local organizations.
• Prepare and modify reports, specifications, and designs for projects.

Skills

Project Management

Transportation Engineering

Client Liaison Skills

Leadership

Negotiation Skills

Education

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

Tools

Microstation

OpenRoads Designer

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Job Title - Senior Transportation Engineer
Location - Austin, Texas
Job Type - Hybrid, Onsite

ABOUT STANLEY CONSULTANTS

Improving Lives Since 1913. Stanley Consultants has been helping clients solve essential and complex energy and infrastructure challenges for over 110 years, successfully completing more than 50,000 engagements in 120 countries and all 50 states and U.S. territories. Values-based and purpose-driven, Stanley is an employee-owned company of engineers, scientists, technologists, innovators and client-service experts who are recognized for their commitment and passion to make a difference. The company garnered a recent Top Workplaces USA Today ranking and followed it with recognitions for outstanding compensation and benefits and work-life flexibility. For more information on Stanley Consultants, please visit stanleyconsultants.com.

Are you motivated, energetic and connected with clients, contractors and subconsultants in the A/E/C industry? Is your passion for leading transportation projects contagious? Do you enjoy executing winning strategies for pursuits? Is work/life balance important to you? If this describes you, we are looking for a talented and ambitious Senior Transportation Engineer in our Austin, Texas office. You will provide engineering expertise on highway projects including roadway studies and design, drainage and utility systems, preliminary and final design, preparation of construction documents, cost estimates, project scheduling, and large, complex highway corridors.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Lead, direct, and mentor design staff on transportation projects, including plan development for a comprehensive range of transportation design projects ranging from roundabouts to interchanges and interstate widenings. Associated tasks with these projects will include horizontal and vertical geometry, cross sections, earthwork modeling, 3D roadway modeling, quantities calculations, construction specifications, and utility coordination.
• Manage and design projects with clients such as Texas DOT and other municipal organizations.
• Assist in staffing requirements and make recommendations for hiring staff.
• Assist in the development of marketing strategies for transportation project opportunities.
• Adhere to company standards for quality assurance and quality control as defined in the quality manual.
• Participate in project scoping, fee estimating and proposal preparation, interviews, and negotiations.
• Review department project(s) after award to collaborate on work procedures/sequences and developing schedules, budgets, staffing, sub consultant involvement, and progress billings.
• Attend on-site and off-site client meetings.
• Evaluate client needs and identify requirements.
• Meet with client management as necessary during the term of a project to resolve issues and to obtain approvals at the project’s completion.
• Prepare and modify reports, specifications, plans, construction schedules, cost estimates, environmental studies, and designs for projects.
• Evaluate need for design changes and make appropriate recommendations.
• Submit documents to federal, state, and local agencies for code compliance review and obtain permits when required.

This position offers exciting challenges and opportunities to develop the growing Louisiana program while managing all activities related to project scope, schedule, cost, quality, communications, and resources; mentoring young staff engineers, assisting in transportation market business development, and participating in professional organizations and technical committees.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
• Texas Professional Engineer (PE) license required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with the Texas Department of Transportation or similar State DOT and/or local government agencies developing, delivering, and managing highway design projects.
• Experience with Texas DOT design methods, plan preparation, standards and specifications or similar State DOT experience.
• Demonstrated capabilities and success in managing the design of medium to large multi-disciplined transportation projects, multi-office projects, and/or multiple projects.
• Working knowledge of roadway design software used to prepare engineering and design documents including Microstation and OpenRoads Designer.
• Experienced in and fully capable of using the Microsoft software suite including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experienced in preparing technical approaches and work plans (write ups) to support RFQs and technical proposals.
• Proven leadership, communication, mentoring and client liaison skills.
• Business acumen including negotiation skills.
• Established relationships with key clients.

Stanley’s Approach to Flexibility

While some members choose to work out of their local office on a full-time basis, we offer a hybrid schedule for eligible positions consisting of two days a week in the office, two days a week remotely, and Friday being a flexible day that can be worked either in the office or at home. Eligible roles can also offer a compressed workweek schedule. Members who participate will be assigned a 9/80 work schedule, meaning every other Friday off!

What we offer:

• Member-Owned. Member-ownership is at the heart of our culture, aligning client satisfaction, company performance, and personal reward.
• Work-Life Balance. We realize there’s more to life than just work.
• Paid Time Away. Stanley Consultants offers numerous paid holidays, generous paid time off (PTO), parental leave, and professional development leave.
• Health Portfolio. We provide a comprehensive portfolio of health services including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, Doctor On Demand, wellness reimbursement, and mental health resources.
• Financial Health. We offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, identity theft protection, and many other benefits.
• Professional Growth. When your skills grow, so do we, which is why we offer tuition assistance, professional society membership, and more.
• Financial Rewards. We share our prosperity with members through company stock ownership, a generous 401K match, incentive compensation, and profit-sharing contributions to retirement 401K plans.

Stanley Consultants does not welcome unsolicited resumes from staffing and recruiting agencies. Any unsolicited resumes submitted to Stanley Consultants, including but not limited to resumes submitted directly to Stanley Consultants members, or any of our representatives, will be deemed the property of Stanley Consultants.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities