Transportation Project Engineer - Hybrid Part-Time

GHD; Santa Rosa (CA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 145,000; Part time

Job summary

GHD is seeking a Project Manager / Project Engineer - Transportation to support municipal infrastructure and capital improvement projects in Santa Rosa, California. The role is part-time, as-needed, and involves coordinating design reviews, project controls, and public agency coordination across planning, design, procurement, and construction phases.

The hybrid work model requires in-office collaboration three days a week, with responsibilities spanning transportation, utilities, and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering municipal transportation, public works, capital improvement, or related infrastructure projects.
• Experience overseeing designs, coordinating consultants, and working across multidisciplinary teams.
• Working knowledge of public agency project delivery, consultant contracts, grant-funded projects, procurement, bidding, and construction processes.
• Ability to review technical deliverables for completeness, coordination, constructability, quality, and consistency with project requirements.
• Strong organization, independent judgment, and follow-through, with the ability to manage multiple priorities with limited supervision.
• Clear, practical communication and the ability to work effectively with clients, agencies, project teams, consultants, contractors, and community stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support project managers with the technical and day-to-day delivery of transportation, utility, and municipal capital improvement projects.
• Oversee design development and review plans, specifications, estimates, reports, and other technical deliverables prepared by internal teams and consultants.
• Coordinate roadway, drainage, traffic, utilities, survey, environmental, permitting, right-of-way, and other disciplines to support complete, coordinated, and constructible designs.
• Facilitate design reviews, document decisions, track comments and action items, and help resolve technical, permitting, constructability, and delivery issues.
• Support consultant procurement and contract administration, including scopes of work, requests for proposals, proposal evaluations, budgets, schedules, invoices, and deliverables.
• Assist with project planning, cost estimates, grant applications, funding documentation, and reimbursement requirements for state and federally funded projects.
• Coordinate with clients, public agencies, funding partners, utility owners, subconsultants, contractors, and community stakeholders.
• Provide technical coordination and project support during planning, design, bidding, construction, and closeout.

Skills

Project management

Public agency coordination

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project collaboration tools

AutoCAD (not required)

Job description

GHD is seeking a Project Manager / Project Engineer - Transportation to support municipal infrastructure and capital improvement projects in Santa Rosa, California. The role is part-time, as-needed, and involves coordinating design reviews, project controls, and public agency coordination across planning, design, procurement, and construction phases.

The hybrid work model requires in-office collaboration three days a week, with responsibilities spanning transportation, utilities, and