Senior Transportation Engineer – Bay Area, Project Leader

Fehr & Peers; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fehr & Peers in the Bay Area seeks a Transportation or Civil Engineer with 7-12 years of experience to lead and manage transportation projects from concept through final design, including PS&E. You will apply your technical foundation, coordinate scope, schedule, and budget, and mentor junior staff while engaging with clients.

This role offers growth into project management and leadership across offices, with focus on traffic engineering, complete streets, and multimodal planning, and requires

Qualifications

• 7-12 years of relevant experience in transportation planning or engineering.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in transportation or civil engineering.
• Experience applying transportation analysis techniques with increasing independence.
• Experience in transportation planning, traffic engineering, transportation design (conceptual through PS&E), complete streets, traffic operations analysis, or travel demand modeling.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Excel, CAD (AutoCAD, MicroStation); experience with HCS, Synchro/SimTraffic, Vistro, VISSIM, Sidra is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage projects, including coordinating scope, schedule, and budget.
• Apply standard and intermediate analytical techniques independently, with guidance.
• Contribute to, and as appropriate, lead project approaches, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• Prepare clear, well-organized technical reports, memos, and presentations.
• Participate in and lead client meetings and support relationship development.
• Mentor entry-level staff and interns, including delegating, reviewing work and providing guidance.
• Lead, in collaboration with others, proposal efforts and business development initiatives.
• Balance multiple assignments while managing your own workload effectively.
• Conduct site visits and field data collection as needed.
• Embrace opportunities to learn and adopt new tools, technologies, and ways of working while maintaining professional judgment.

Skills

Communication skills

Proactive mindset

Mentoring

Initiative

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in transportation or civil engineering

Tools

Excel

AutoCAD

MicroStation

HCS

Synchro/SimTraffic

Vistro

VISSIM

Sidra

Job description

Fehr & Peers in the Bay Area seeks a Transportation or Civil Engineer with 7-12 years of experience to lead and manage transportation projects from concept through final design, including PS&E. You will apply your technical foundation, coordinate scope, schedule, and budget, and mentor junior staff while engaging with clients.

This role offers growth into project management and leadership across offices, with focus on traffic engineering, complete streets, and multimodal planning, and requires