Senior Transportation Engineer — Multimodal Project Lead

CDM Smith; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 100,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a senior transportation engineer to lead technical planning, design, and delivery of major transportation projects including highways, bridges, and multimodal corridors. The role acts as a Project Technical Leader, aligning scope, schedule, budget, staffing, and client expectations while signing and sealing designs as required.

You will mentor staff, drive quality control, and coordinate across disciplines to ensure integrated, accurate project deliverables and responsive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Transportation, or Structural Engineering or related discipline.
• Professional engineering (PE) license.
• 10 years of related experience.
• Domestic and/or international travel may be required.
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Responsibilities

• Establish and communicate the technical vision, design basis, delivery strategy, and expected technical outcomes for assigned projects.
• Translate scope and client requirements into technical work plans, discipline assignments, design criteria, and deliverables.
• Drive the cascading flow of technical information and decisions required to execute project scope across teams with diverse technical skills.
• Define technical roles, responsibilities, decision authorities, review points, and discipline interfaces.
• Lead multidisciplinary technical coordination among roadway, bridge, traffic, transit, drainage, environmental, geotechnical, utility, right‑of‑way, construction, and other applicable disciplines.
• Verify that assumptions, criteria, calculations, and deliverables are integrated and technically consistent.
• Facilitate timely technical decisions, document significant decisions and their bases, and communicate decisions to affected disciplines.
• Serve as the primary technical counterpart to the Project Manager and senior technical contact for clients, partner firms, subconsultants, and agencies when assigned.

Skills

Task management

Multidisciplinary coordination

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Mentoring

Education

Bachelors in Civil/Transportation/Structural Eng

PE license

Tools

CADD

Autodesk

Bentley

GIS

3D modeling software

Job description

CDM Smith is seeking a senior transportation engineer to lead technical planning, design, and delivery of major transportation projects including highways, bridges, and multimodal corridors. The role acts as a Project Technical Leader, aligning scope, schedule, budget, staffing, and client expectations while signing and sealing designs as required.

You will mentor staff, drive quality control, and coordinate across disciplines to ensure integrated, accurate project deliverables and responsive