Senior Transportation Engineer (Roadway)

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Transportation Engineer, where your expertise in roadway design will help shape the future of transportation. In this dynamic role, you'll be part of a dedicated team working on diverse projects, from urban freeways to pedestrian lanes. With over a decade of experience, you will lead design efforts, ensuring safety and sustainability in every project. This position offers the chance to make a significant impact while collaborating with talented professionals in a supportive environment. If you're passionate about improving infrastructure and enhancing community mobility, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in roadway engineering design required.
• Proven ability to lead teams and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and oversee roadway design work using local or AASHTO standards.
• Work on medium to large highway/roadway design projects.

Skills

Roadway Engineering Design

Leadership Skills

Communication Skills

Urban and Rural Highway Interchanges

Traffic Management

Education

Professional Engineer (PE) License

Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

CAD Software

Job description

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we work to weave diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and foster a sense of belonging throughout the company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?

About our Transportation Team:

HDR's Oregon Transportation team is in search of a Senior Transportation Engineer to join our growing practice and world-class engineering roadway design expertise. Our transportation projects include highways, local roadways, large urban freeways, ADA ramp improvement programs, bike/pedestrian lanes, transit, and BRT corridors projects.

For more than 100 years, HDR has delivered award-winning integrated transportation planning and design solutions to our trusted clients. Ranking as the #5 Design firm in ENR's top 500 list, our clients know we understand their mission and business. Using a tailored approach to constantly changing demands on infrastructure, and custom design methodologies, we believe that a well-planned, designed, constructed, and managed roadway will improve safety, mobility, reliability, and most importantly, sustainability for years to come.

Our global transportation practice provides our clients and communities with creative design solutions that improve the travel, safety, and human condition of those they serve. Join HDR and help make great things possible.

In the role of Senior Transportation Engineer (Roadway), we'll count on you to:

• Work as a key member of a highway/roadway design team with medium to large projects.
• Prepare and oversee the following roadway/highway design work using local or AASHTO standards: horizontal and vertical alignment, roadway sections, intersection layout and sight distance determination, interchange layout, roadway drainage, and ADA ramp design.
• Prepare the following elements of various sizes of contract plans, site preparation plans, roadway profiles, drainage plans and profiles, utility plans, paving, pavement marking plans, signing plans, traffic control plans.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of 10 years experience in all aspects of roadway engineering design.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, communication skills and ability to work with various teams.
• Experience should include urban and rural highway interchanges, intersection design, traffic management, transportation planning, site planning, preparation of concept alignments, geometrical layout and CAD base alignment plans.
• Must have coordinated survey, grading, drainage and utilities and layout of various site items is a plus.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.

What We Believe:

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment:

As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.

Primary Location

Other Locations

Industry

: Highway + Road

Schedule

: Full-time

Employee Status

: Regular

Business Class: Highways

Job Posting

: Feb 7, 2025

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity.

We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.

Ready to learn more? Let's work together to make great things possible.

We design solutions to the world's greatest challenges. We're always looking for great talent to join our global teams.