Roadway Project Engineer​/Task Manager

At Jacobs, we challenge today to reinvent tomorrow by delivering transportation solutions that improve safety, enhance mobility, and connect communities. As a Roadway Project Engineer / Task Manager, you'll join a collaborative team delivering impactful roadway and highway projects for WisDOT and local agencies throughout Wisconsin.

In this role, you'll lead the planning, design, and delivery of transportation infrastructure projects from concept through final design. You'll apply your roadway design expertise while taking on project leadership responsibilities, managing project tasks, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, mentoring developing engineers, and helping clients achieve successful project outcomes.

What you'll do

-    Support the design and delivery of roadway and highway improvement projects for WisDOT, including urban and rural corridors, freeway and interchange improvements, reconstruction projects, intersection improvements, and multimodal transportation facilities

-    Prepare and oversee the development of plans, specifications, and estimates (PS&E), design calculations, technical reports, quantities, and cost estimates

-    Utilize Bentley Open Roads Designer (ORD), Micro Station, and/or AutoCAD Civil 3D to develop roadway geometry, corridor models, alignments, profiles, and construction plans

-    Serve as a task manager for transportation design projects, supporting scope, schedule, budget, deliverables, and client coordination

-    Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams including traffic, drainage, structures, environmental, utilities, and construction professionals

-    Collaborate with WisDOT staff, municipalities, and other project stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle

-    Perform and oversee quality reviews to ensure compliance with WisDOT standards, the Facilities Development Manual (FDM), and applicable federal guidelines

-    Provide technical guidance and mentorship to early-career engineers and designers

-    Support project planning, proposal development, and client relationship activities

-    Provide engineering support during construction, including design clarifications, field reviews, and resolution of project challenges

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-    Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

-    Professional Engineer (PE) license in Wisconsin, or ability to obtain through reciprocity

-    Minimum of 5 years of experience in roadway design, highway design, transportation engineering, or civil transportation projects

-    Experience delivering WisDOT transportation projects and working with Wisconsin design standards and specifications

-    Proficiency with AutoCAD Civil 3D, experience with Micro Station platforms is a plus

-    Strong understanding of roadway geometrics, corridor modeling, intersection design, plan production, quantities, and PS&E development

-    Experience coordinating multidisciplinary project teams and managing project tasks and deliverables

-    Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills

Ideally, you'll also have

-    Experience serving as a task manager or taking a lead role on design projects

-    Knowledge of WisDOT project development processes, permitting requirements, and construction administration support

-    Experience mentoring engineers or designers and coordinating with clients and project stakeholders

Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law.

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