National BRT & Multimodal Design Lead. Fort Smith Move Collective

Job Title

National BRT & Multimodal Design Lead

TSO

Professional Engineer

Regular

• Lead Complex, High-Visibility Corridor Designs
  • Direct the technical delivery of full-corridor Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and multimodal design projects.
  • Lead the design of both center-running and curbside BRT stations, ensuring seamless integration with civil, traffic, ITS, and urban design disciplines.
  • Oversee coordination for transit signal priority and collaborate closely with ITS and signal engineering teams.
  • Deliver corridor designs through final design (PS&E), ensuring high-quality plans, specifications, estimates, and defensible design decisions.
• Set National Standards & Drive Technical Excellence
  • Create and maintain standardized design approaches for BRT and Complete Streets programs, including typical sections, standard details, corridor templates, and technical playbooks.
  • Develop and lead QA/QC review processes, applying enterprise-level design review across multiple programs.
  • Produce and defend design exceptions and design deviations for constrained urban corridors, ensuring decisions are well-documented and technically justified.
  • Integrate Complete Streets principles—including bike facilities, pedestrian safety, ADA considerations, and multimodal safety enhancements—into all corridor designs.
• Apply Advanced Tools & Digital Delivery
  • Use Civil 3D corridor modeling to create accurate, optimized, and visually compelling design models.
  • Leverage 3D visualization, traffic simulation tools, and data-driven decision support systems to evaluate transit priority scenarios and communicate design impacts.
  • Support and advance digital delivery workflows, helping transition teams toward model-based design methodologies.
• Shape Strategy & Strengthen Market Position
  • Serve as the technical lead during proposal interviews, representing the vision and strategy for corridor design excellence.
  • Contribute to Go/No-Go decisions, capture strategies, and proposal technical narratives for major transit and multimodal pursuits.
  • Support scope development and proposal writing for new opportunities in transit and mobility.
  • Build and maintain strong working relationships within the transit and multimodal design community, including public agencies and corridor program partners.
• Mentor, Support, and Elevate Future Leaders
  • Mentor emerging Project Technical Leaders and corridor task leads across multiple regions.
  • Strengthen multidisciplinary collaboration and help build national capacity in BRT and multimodal corridor design.
  • Provide guidance on design decisions, modeling techniques, technical writing, documentation, and defensible design justification.

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Transportation, or Structural Engineering or related discipline.
• Professional engineering (PE) license.
• 10 years of related experience (Domestic and/or international travel may be required; frequency contingent on duties).
• Equivalent additional directly related experience considered in lieu of a degree.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in BRT, Complete Corridors, and multimodal corridor design.
• Experience delivering at least one corridor project through final design (PS&E).
• Experience leading multi-discipline design teams.
• Experience developing project design criteria, plans, specifications, and cost estimates.
• Experience managing design justification documentation and design exceptions.
• Proficiency in Civil 3D corridor modeling workflows.
• Strong communication and technical writing skills.
• Experience supporting proposal development and scope creation.
• Ability to mentor junior staff and oversee QA/QC reviews.

$105,227 - $184,142

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