Roadway Project Engineer

Overview

GAI Consultants, Inc is seeking an experienced Roadway Project Engineer to work within our Indiana Transportation Team. The successful candidate will be a hard-working individual who enjoys a challenging, fast-paced, and team-oriented environment. The candidate will use their related experience to jump right into a variety of new projects for INDOT and Local Municipalities that are in the early phases of design.

Our Midwest Roadway Team is looking for a candidate who is willing to share their expertise through teaching others, but also eager to learn new skills and grow professionally in today s global environment. This position is eligible for GAI’s flexible hybrid work schedules.

• Roadway design for INDOT and Local Public Agency (LPA) clients.
• Creates and reviews project design calculations, quantities takeoffs, specifications, plans and contract documents.
• Coordinate with the Transportation Team to assign responsibilities and manage project tasks.
• Plan, schedule, conduct or coordinate detailed phases of engineering work.
• Attend project meetings and present specific aspects of engineering assignments.
• Conduct analyses and select appropriate engineering applications.
• Ensure alignment with project schedules and budgets.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to junior engineers in the development of plans, reports, and specifications.
• Complete training on assigned tasks as required.
• Apply INDOT design manual and AAHTO principles to highway design.
• Utilize roadway design CADD software and knowledge of road design software such as Open Roads.
• Participate in occasional site visits at construction sites and in remote outdoor work environments.
• Occasional travel to client meetings and site visits.

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
• Professional Engineer’s license in Indiana or ability to obtain through reciprocity within 6 months.
• Strong team collaboration, oral and written communication, design expertise, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with INDOT standards, specifications, and deliverables for Federally Funded Projects.
• Proficiency in CADD.

• Applies thorough knowledge of current principles and practices of engineering related to a variety of aspects affecting the organization.
• Progressively acquires expertise to resolve crucial issues and/or unique conditions.
• Keeps informed of new methods and developments affecting the organization and recommends new practices or changes in programs.
• Leads programs of moderate complexity and scope or leads a major project.
• Analyzes complex problems across specialty areas appropriate to the practice of engineering.
• Analyzes ethical dilemmas to determine appropriate courses of action.

• 14+ years of experience.

• B.S. Engineering.

• Professional Engineer (P.E.) License, reciprocity in multiple states.

• Serves as the technical advisor for the organization in the application of advanced concepts and methods in an assigned area.
• Keeps informed of new developments and requirements affecting the organization for the purpose of recommending changes in programs or applications.
• Develops new techniques and/or improved processes, materials, or products.
• Values and analyzes sustainable performance of complex engineering projects from a systems perspective.

• Oversees a project team of engineers and technicians.
• Plans, schedules, and coordinates the preparation of documents or activities for multiple major projects or is responsible for an entire program of an organization.
• Analyses project management plans for complex engineering projects.
• Understands project delivery uncertainties and uses risk management principles to address them.
• Reviews operational procedures to ensure compliance with applicable policies and performance measures.

• Management, Supervision and Guidance
• Receives administrative supervision with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
• Provides continued mentored experience to senior staff.
• Integrates professional attitudes relevant to the practice of engineering and…