Technical Advisor - Roadway

HNTB Corporation; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a seasoned engineer to provide guidance on complex infrastructure projects in Salt Lake City, UT. The role demands extensive experience, with at least a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and 10 years in the field. Responsibilities include advising on technical designs, managing project delivery, and ensuring adherence to industry standards. The ideal candidate will demonstrate leadership, mentoring abilities, and a commitment to fostering technical knowledge across the organization. This full-time position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to significant projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 9 years relevant experience with a Master's degree.
• Minimum 8 years relevant experience with a PhD.

Responsibilities

• Perform independent technical reviews and provide guidance.
• Resolve technical issues as requested.
• Assist in marketing responsibilities, including proposal generation.
• Coordinate technical aspects with clients and partners.
• Develop consistency in technical standards across projects.

Skills

Technical guidance and direction

Advanced engineering methods

Ability to mentor and support staff

Persuasion and communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Master’s degree in Engineering

PhD in Engineering

Job description

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee‑owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for providing guidance and direction in your area of expertise and functional discipline. The position supports the technical aspects of project development and delivery, including proposal development, scope implementation and change management. You will apply advanced engineering methods, techniques, and analyses to provide solutions, make recommendations, and resolve issues. You will ensure industry and HNTB standards of design are applied consistently and effectively across projects of varying discipline, size, and complexity. You will independently apply knowledge and experience in partnership with internal project team members and external client counterparts, serving as an advisor on complex projects to provide technical designs, plans and specifications.

What You’ll Do:

• Performs independent technical reviews, makes recommendations, and provides technical guidance as requested on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Provides direction to resolve technical issues as requested.
• Provides technical expertise and advice to project leadership, and mentoring/support to production staff.
• Assists in marketing responsibilities, including proposal generation on complex or unusual engineering projects within the discipline.
• Coordinates technical aspects with client counterpart and teaming partners at local leadership level for work within the discipline on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Develops and advises on technical consistency within the discipline across processes and projects, ensuring the same standards and practices are applied.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 10 years of relevant experience.
• Master’s degree in Engineering and 9 years of relevant experience.
• PhD in Engineering and 8 years of relevant experience.

What You’ll Bring:

• Uses persuasion to communicate solutions while understanding the project goals and interests of stakeholders.
• Demonstrates a vision for complex and unique challenges.
• Understands engineering principles behind the design code requirements.
• Promotes knowledge within the industry through authoring technical papers, technical presentations, and serving on technical committees.
• Understands, supports, and influences multiple concurrent projects.
• Discovers opportunities for technical improvements across the firm and collaborates with peers to share ideas.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in their field.

What We Prefer:

• Master’s degree in Engineering.
• 15 years relevant experience.
• Professional Engineer (PE) certification.
• Proven ability to develop, calibrate, and validate models that meet agency standards and withstand technical review.
• Experience integrating modeling with safety analysis, signal timing, transit operations, and freeway management strategies.
• Ability to interpret model outputs and translate them into clear, actionable recommendations for design teams and clients.
• Ability to integrate modeling with visualization tools, dashboards, or scenario comparison frameworks to support decision‑making.

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Job Details

Job Type: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full time

Job Category: Engineering Group

ReqID: R-29379