Entry Level Highway Designer

About the Position

VHB’s Watertown, MA office is looking for an Entry Level Highway Designer to join our team. Our team uses its skills and experience to improve our community’s highway and roadway infrastructure with an integrated, context-driven, and innovative project delivery mindset. Our clients include MassDOT Highway Division, local Cities and Towns, MBTA, Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR), other state public agencies, Colleges and Universities, and private developers.

• Work within a team of design, engineering, and construction professionals in developing transportation design solutions for a multitude of projects
• Roadway design
• Drainage design
• Utility design
• Traffic control development
• Preliminary and final design plans
• Contract documents, including specifications
• Engineer’s construction cost estimates and schedules
• Construction phase services
• Field inspection
• Traditional and alternative design development and project delivery including design-build
• Work on interdisciplinary design teams and collaborate and coordinate with engineers and contractors with specialties in bridge, traffic, environmental, utilities, and stormwater

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Comfortable working independently as well as on a team
• Detail oriented, self‑motivated, and committed
• Strong computer skills
• Critical thinking and problem solving

• Bachelor’s of Science in Civil Engineering
• 0–1 years of professional transportation engineering experience
• EIT, or EIT in process, is a plus
• Roadway design experience is a plus
• AutoCAD Civil 3D experience is a strong plus

Our best estimate of the salary range for this position is $80,000–83,000. The final compensation will be based on a variety of factors including internal comparators, skills, education, training, credentials, experience, scope and complexity of role responsibilities and geographic location.

Our people make the difference. We foster a technology‑empowered, people‑driven, future‑ready culture where agility, innovation, and collaboration shape how we work every day.

• Meaningful work on complex projects with real community impact
• A collaborative, inclusive culture that values curiosity and shared success
• Support to grow your skills and lead through change
• Learning and development supported by evolving tools and technologies, including AI
• Best‑in‑class benefits and a flexible, hybrid work environment

We’re growing across the East Coast and are consistently recognized as a great place to work. Ready to shape what’s next? Learn more about what sets our employee experience apart and connect with us.

VHB is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. Since our founding, we have intentionally fostered a culture of inclusion and belonging, supported by deep‑rooted core values, one of which is diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.