What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Transportation Engineer position at VHB?
Overview
ABOUT THE POSITION
Elevate your career as a Senior Transportation Highway Engineer with VHB’s I64 Team!
You’ll lead highway and drainage design, traffic control planning, cost estimating, and project management, while playing a crucial role in business development and client relationship building. Join our multi-disciplinary team in delivering sustainable, context-driven projects for clients like VDOT, NPS, local municipalities, and private partners. If you’re ready to make a lasting impact on the communities we live, work, and play in, we want you on our team!
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead engineering design and analysis on complex transportation projects, including grading, stormwater management, and erosion control.
- Produce design deliverables such as plans, construction documents, specifications, estimates, reports, and technical memorandums.
- Conduct client presentations to address project goals and solutions.
- Coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams and subconsultants.
- Perform fieldwork for design and construction projects as needed.
- Implement QC/QA best practices in compliance with VHB and client standards.
- Provide services related to the construction bidding process and active construction management.
- Participate in business development activities including proposal development, scope of work, and fee estimation.
Skills/Abilities:
- Proficiency in AutoCAD with Civil 3D Corridor and/or MicroStation with Geopak or Open Roads.
- Strong leadership and project management skills with the ability to oversee multiple projects.
- Excellent communication skills for both project and business development.
- Ability to mentor junior staff and manage technical tasks effectively.
- Strong presentation and public speaking skills.
Qualifications:
- BS in Civil Engineering required; MS preferred.
- Minimum 8 years of professional transportation engineering experience; 11 years preferred.
- PE license in VA strongly preferred or able to obtain within a year.
- Virginia Advanced Work Zone TCDS and experience with VDOT funded project programs a plus.
- Valid driver's license required due to travel to client meetings and project sites.
We are VHB! We’re an inspired and innovative team of engineers, scientists, planners, and designers who partner with clients in the transportation, real estate, institutional, and energy industries, as well as federal, state, and local governments. Our work helps improve mobility, enhance communities, and contribute to economic vitality. We do this while balancing development and infrastructure needs with stewardship of our environment.
Our people make us great! VHB provides a differentiating employee experience, which includes:
- Diverse and inclusive culture of collaboration and innovation
- Opportunity to work on complex, transformational projects
- Community and social responsibility as sustainable stewards
- Focus on learning, development, and career growth
- Best-in-class benefits, including flexible, hybrid workplace
We are consistently rated one of the top AEC firms to work for across our 30 offices on the East Coast. We’re growing, and we hope you’ll join us!
VHB is a proud Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. Since our founding, we have intentionally fostered a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion—supported by deep-rooted core values, one of which is diversity. All individuals receive consideration for employment based on their qualifications without discrimination for race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, pregnancy, marital status, or any other basis protected by law.
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