Senior Engineer

Location

Portland, ME | United States

Job description

Toole Design Group is looking to hire an experienced and talented full-time Senior Engineer in the Portland, ME area. Do you have a strong background in transportation engineering and project development? Are you passionate about sustainability and the opportunity to work on challenging multimodal projects and construction documents that make communities more livable and equitable? Would you like to work for a firm that is committed to the well-being of its employees? If so, please consider joining our team in Portland.

This senior engineering position with a focus on multimodal transportation engineering, earns a competitive salary and great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, a health savings account (HSA), and a flexible spending account (FSA). We practice what we preach and provide our employees with financial incentives to walk, bike, or use transit.

About Toole Design

Toole Design is the leading planning, engineering, and landscape architecture firm specializing in multimodal transportation. Since our start in 2003 as a single office in Maryland, we have expanded throughout the United States and Canada. Our talented team of planners, landscape architects, and engineers is committed to delivering quality work that meets the needs of all people, regardless of age, ability, race, or gender. We have been named a "best firm to work for" and have one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry.

Every project our employees deliver improves our communities. We are industry-leading experts, and we work hard to encourage a collaborative and team-oriented environment.

A Day in the Life of a Senior Engineer

You are managing a variety of people centered transportation engineering projects, brainstorming creative, contextually sensitive solutions. You lead and mentor an interdisciplinary team to deliver sustainable, place making, multimodal transportation infrastructure projects in a wide range of contexts. You are at the table with clients and colleagues from a variety of disciplines, delivering project ideas from concept to construction. You share your knowledge at stakeholder and public engagement events, developing feasibility studies and concept plans and preparing construction documents for innovative projects throughout the country. You guide your colleagues to ensure that our projects are consistently of the highest quality. You participate in business development pursuits in your home region as well as across New England, weighing in on pursuit decisions. You work with a close-knit team that is passionate about the work and the communities that you serve.

Qualifications of a Senior Engineer:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in civil engineering

• Professional engineering license
• 10+ years of experience in transportation/civil engineering
• Experience managing intersection and corridor wide improvement projects, including, but not limited to, meeting minimum ADA and drainage requirements
• A broad knowledge base in aspects of street design and understanding of civil engineering drawings
• Experience in multimodal and active transportation design: bicycle, pedestrian, Safe Routes to School (SRTS), Complete Streets, Vision Zero, and/or transit integration
• Experience or interest in supervising junior staff members
• Experience working on engineering projects for MaineDOT or municipalities in Maine a plus
• Experience with construction management is a plus
• Experience with trail design and/or on-street bikeway and pedestrian design a plus

You'll be great here if:

• You are passionate about transforming transportation networks and creating healthy and resilient environments for communities in Maine and throughout New England

• You enjoy collaborating across disciplines and offices to deliver great work for clients and communities
• You deliver high-quality work on time and on budget
• You have strong communication skills, whether written, verbal, or graphically
• You are motivated to tackle new challenges and develop creative solutions
• You thrive on engaging communities in the public engagement process
• You can build relationships, bring enthusiasm to exciting projects, and are detail oriented with strong problem-solving skills
• You are motivated to build a portfolio of potential clients

Work Schedule for a Senior Engineer

This full-time position typically works a flexible schedule of 40 hours a week. We also provide employees with the flexibility and necessary equipment to work from home. While this position is based in Portland, ME, there will be occasions when being physically present in our Northeast office in Boston will be expected as mutually agreed upon during the job application/interview/offer process.

Ready to Join our Northeast Team? We understand your time is valuable, so we have a quick and easy application process. If you feel that you would be right for this Senior Engineer position, please fill out our application by clicking on the link on this page.

At Toole Design, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We have a collaborative culture where people of all backgrounds come together to share ideas and build better, more inclusive communities. We encourage those from underrepresented communities - women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between - to apply. Even if you don't think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

We're proud that about half of our managers are women and are committed to achieving racial diversity in our leadership as well. Toole Design is a woman-owned business and an equal opportunity employer (EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer).

For more information about Toole Design, visit our website and follow us on LinkedIn , Instagram , or Facebook .

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