Senior Transportation Engineer

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** Job Description*
* Leads technical planning, design, and delivery of major transportation projects-highways, bridges, transit facilities, and multimodal corridors.

Serves as a senior transportation engineer and, when assigned, as Project Technical Leader. Establishes and drives the project's technical vision; coordinates the flow of technical information, decisions, and interfaces across disciplines; confirms that appropriate technical resources are engaged at the correct stages; and is accountable for the technical accuracy and integrated quality of project deliverables.

Works in partnership with the Project Manager to align technical scope, schedule, budget, staffing, risk, quality, and client expectations. Develops corrective technical action plans when delivery challenges arise. Signs and seals engineering designs as required and contributes to the firm's technical knowledge, staff development, client service, and business-development activities.

** Duties and Responsibilities*
* ** Project Technical Leadership and Integrated Delivery, 25%*
* + Establish and communicate the technical vision, design basis, delivery strategy, and expected technical outcomes for assigned projects.

+ Translate scope and client requirements into technical work plans, discipline assignments, design criteria, and deliverables.

+ Drive the cascading flow of technical information and decisions required to execute project scope across teams with diverse technical skills.

+ Define technical roles, responsibilities, decision authorities, review points, and discipline interfaces consistent with the project's responsibility-assignment structure.

+ Lead multidisciplinary technical coordination among roadway, bridge, traffic, transit, drainage, environmental, geotechnical, utility, right-of-way, construction, and other applicable disciplines.

+ Verify that assumptions, criteria, calculations, and deliverables are integrated and technically consistent.

+ Facilitate timely technical decisions, document significant decisions and their bases, and communicate decisions to affected disciplines.

+ Serve as the primary technical counterpart to the Project Manager and as a senior technical contact for clients, partner firms, subconsultants, and agencies when assigned.

+ Maintain focus on the quality and suitability of the complete end product, rather than only an individual discipline deliverable.

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** Engineering Design and Development, 25%*
* + Lead or perform transportation planning and engineering design of basic to high complexity for roadway, highway, interchange, bridge, transit, multimodal, pedestrian, and bicycle projects.

+ Develop and evaluate design concepts using client requirements, engineering principles, and constructability considerations.

+ Direct preparation of design calculations, reports, plans, specifications, quantities, estimates, technical memoranda, and supporting documentation.

+ Review designs for compliance with federal, state, and local requirements, client criteria, and engineering standards.

+ Integrate roadway geometry, maintenance of traffic, drainage, accessibility, traffic control, utilities, structures, right-of-way, environmental commitments, and other project elements as applicable.

+ Use or oversee the use of appropriate design, analysis, CADD, Autodesk, Bentley, GIS, and 3D or intelligent-modeling applications.

+ Sign and seal engineering designs when required and when consistent with professional licensure and responsible-charge obligations.

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** Quality Management and Technical Accuracy, 15%*
* + Drive the technical accuracy, completeness, consistency, and constructability of assigned work products.

+ Develop or support implementation of the project quality plan, including review levels, reviewer qualifications, checking procedures, interdisciplinary reviews, and documentation requirements.

+ Confirm quality-control reviews occur at key milestones and comments are resolved before delivery.

+ Review key technical assumptions,…