As a highway design engineer, you’ll support transportation improvement projects with the design and detailing of local, county, and state roadway and highway projects. You’ll assist with geometric analyses and calculations using established design criteria and standard software. The highway design engineer reports to the project manager.
Responsibilities
Assist with developing typical sections, alignments, profiles, layouts, and cross-sections.
Support design team in development of design documentation, plans, and reports for specific tasks and quantity calculations.
Monitor compliance with applicable codes and engineering practices.
Perform engineering calculations and estimates.
Collect and process data for topographic surveys and right-of-way engineering for use in design analysis.
Qualifications
Bachelor of science degree in civil engineering.
Minimum one year of transportation design experience.
Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certificate.
Familiarity with AutoCAD, MicroStation, Civil 3D and Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Word and Excel.
This hybrid job operates between an office environment and a field environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones and copy machines. May occasionally be exposed to work environments that include exposure to inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements. While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee include frequent sitting, moving, standing, talking, hearing, and occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling. This job may occasionally require operating a company vehicle, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.