Roadway Design Engineer

Bring your curiosity and determination to make a positive impact on the future of transport, and we’ll help you go all the way.

Join GHD’s growing Transportation team as a Transportation Roadway Engineer and help deliver impactful roadway infrastructure projects across the Central Region.

In this role, you’ll develop roadway design plans, contract documents, cost estimates, and technical analyses while contributing to traffic, signal, lighting, and ITS projects. You’ll play an important role in ensuring designs meet applicable standards and are delivered with quality, accuracy, and efficiency.

We’re looking for a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) with at least five years of transportation engineering experience and a strong background in roadway design. The ideal candidate will bring experience with AutoCAD Civil 3D and/or MicroStation, strong communication and time-management skills, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. Experience with drainage, grading, and traffic engineering tools is a plus.

• Design transportation solutions: Develop roadway engineering designs and support validation to ensure solutions meet project, client, regulatory, performance, and cost requirements.
• Support project delivery: Contribute to the successful delivery of small- to medium-scale transportation projects, including plans, specifications, estimates, schedules, and technical documentation.
• Perform engineering inspections: Evaluate the quality of engineering work and existing infrastructure and help identify necessary improvements or remedial work.
• Apply engineering standards: Interpret and apply applicable engineering standards, specifications, regulations, and industry best practices.
• Build client relationships: Develop relationships with clients and support senior team members in managing key client partnerships.
• Support proposals and pursuits: Assist with proposals, bids, and tender responses by gathering technical information and developing high-quality submission materials.
• Collaborate across disciplines: Work with technical specialists and project teams across roadway, traffic, signal, lighting, ITS, drainage, and related transportation disciplines.
• Drive continuous improvement: Identify opportunities to improve processes, systems, project delivery, and technical solutions.
• Promote health and safety: Follow GHD’s health, safety, and environmental requirements and proactively contribute to a safe working environment.
• Continue building your expertise: Participate in professional development, technical communities, training, industry events, and activities that strengthen your transportation engineering expertise.

• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline
• Minimum of 5 years of transportation engineering experience
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required
• Strong roadway design experience
• Experience with AutoCAD Civil 3D and/or MicroStation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Effective organization and time-management skills
• Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities in a collaborative project environment
• Experience with drainage, grading, traffic engineering, signals, lighting, and/or ITS is a plus

GHD offers benefits designed to support your health, well-being, and future, including:

• 401(k): Eligible employees may participate beginning the first day of the month following three months of service.
• Paid Time Off: PTO begins at 16 days per year and increases with years of service, providing time for vacation, illness, and personal needs.
• Holiday Pay: Eligible employees receive holiday pay for GHD’s nine observed holidays each year, based on their regular work schedule.
• Wellness Benefit: Eligible regular full-time employees can receive reimbursement of 50% of qualifying wellness expenses, up to $250 annually. Eligible expenses may include gym memberships, home exercise equipment, bicycles, race entry fees, smoking cessation programs, weight-management programs, and fitness-tracking devices.

As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, national origin, sex (including same sex), sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, disability or handicap, citizenship status, service member status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

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