Roadway Engineer

Location

Herndon, VA | United States

Job description

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Take your career to the next level with Jacobs, with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. 

The Jacobs Virginia Transportation team is searching for a motivated Roadway Engineer who can utilize their excellent technical and design management skills to deliver highways-related infrastructure projects. This opportunity is your chance to work on multi-disciplined transportation projects that focus on highway, roadway, and interchange projects. You will serve as a mid-level Roadway Design engineer on large transportation projects throughout the Virginia geography to perform preliminary and final design engineering and prepare documentation to satisfy the requirements for local and State roadway projects for our Virginia transportation top clients such as the Virginia DOT and local county and city governments.

We’d look to you to provide technical expertise on all aspects of highway design projects including design-build transportation project. You’d perform work with the preparation of roadway design using local (State, County or City) or AASHTO standards at both conceptual, preliminary and final design levels. Also, you’d develop specifications, cost estimates, and prepare final bid packages.

You’d grow professionally with the opportunity to coordinate with all complimentary disciplines (roadway, drainage, structural, traffic, public involvement and environmental), technical preparation and supervision of roadway and planning design tasks, perform plan quality reviews, participate in value engineering studies.

You’ll be coordinating activities of design engineers and technicians to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget. Participate in project decisions regarding technical approaches, cost and scheduling performance as well as maintain a close relationship with management and track upcoming project opportunities and collaborate on project pursuits.

At Jacobs, we’re partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. By joining Jacobs, you’ll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering
• Licensed as a Professional Engineer or able to obtain soon.
• Minimum of 5 years’ professional project experience associated with the highway market sector and with large transportation infrastructure projects and programs.
• Proficiency and prior experience of using MicroStation, OpenRoads, InRoads
• Demonstrated track record of roadway design experience with VDOT. Knowledge of VDOT design standards and design criteria is required.
• Experience in transportation design work with an emphasis on roadway/highway and geometrics final design and/or Maintenance of Traffic and Traffic Control final design.
• Strong technical design background in traffic engineering, highway design, and highway drainage, as well as expertise with AASHTO, FHWA and MUTCD standards.

Ideally, you’ll also have: 
• 3D modeling experience using OpenRoads and/or InRoads. Strong MicroStation and OpenRoads/InRoads background.
• Working knowledge of ProjectWise.
• Previous Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) experience and understanding of VDOT policies and procedures.
• Previous experience working on alternative delivery (Design-Build and PPP) major transportation projects 
• Actively engaged in professional organizations.

At Jacobs, we’re challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With $15 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 60,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.

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