Senior Transportation Engineer - Roadways

Stantec; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Stantec in Austin, Texas is seeking a Senior Transportation Engineer to lead the design and delivery of urban and rural roadway projects, including a signature 9.8-mile urban transit initiative. The position focuses on planning, design, construction, and completion with collaboration across teams and clients to ensure reliable, cost-effective solutions.

The role emphasizes independent work on smaller projects and leadership of junior staff, with supervision of budgets and schedules and potential

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of project plans and drawings for various projects including urban and rural roadways, highways
• Prepare complex engineering designs and plans for urban and rural roadways and highways
• Develop budgets and monitor work of assigned team to ensure budgets and schedules are met
• Coordinate with Project Managers, project team and clients
• Responsible for design, review and sealing of assigned projects
• Supervise the work of engineers and CAD assigned
• Lead and develop junior staff

Job description

A career in transportation is more than bridges, roads, and rail.As we plan, design, and manage projects that movepeopleand goodsfrom Point A to Point B, wecreateconnections that transform our communities. Every airport, road, bridge, port, or transit project is an opportunity to make communities safer, cleaner, and more resilient. Together,we’re making an impact around the world.

Do you see your career as a highway to a brighter future? Join our roadways team to drive forth our economies, our societies, and your career.

Your Opportunity

Be part of Austin’s signature transportation project, a 9.8-mile urban transit system featuring 15 stations. Help shape the future of mobility in Central Texas while working alongside a talented team delivering this transformative project.

As a Senior Transportation Engineer, you will leverage your experience with Texas highway and roadway projects to assist in our growing Texas practice and manage the design and delivery of various projects from conceptual planning, through design, construction, and completion. You will perform a variety of tasks with potentially complex features that will require the application of mature knowledge, sound principles and best practices. The role of a Senior Transportation Engineer is to work independently on smaller projects, and as a team member of a larger project. You will lead the design of assigned projects to ensure reliability, resource efficiency and cost-effectiveness. You may provide supervision and guidance to a group of employees, assigning tasks, checking work at frequent intervals for accuracy and completeness; and maintaining budgets and schedules. You may support proposal efforts to expand our project base in the Texas market.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of project plans and drawings for various projects including urban and rural roadways, highways, rail, transit, trails, and intersections
• Prepare complex engineering designs and plans for urban and rural roadways and highways
• Develop budgets and monitor work of assigned team to ensure budgets and schedules are met
• Coordinate with Project Managers, project team and clients
• Responsible for design, review and sealing of assigned projects
• Supervise the work of engineers and CAD assigned
• Lead and develop junior staff