Transportation Design Job Description
Transportation design
provides engineering design and oversight in the successful delivery of transportation projects throughout Texas, leading and mentoring project teams in all aspects of design and plan preparation for roadway, highway, and freeway projects for TXDOT, Municipal, County, Toll, and Transit agencies.
Transportation Design Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Assist with a variety of roadway and highway design projects involving concept through final construction stage including roadway design, drainage design, staging and erosion control
1-2 years experience in civil engineering, highway engineering preferred
Oversee and coordinate work involving the preparation of roadway and highway design using local (State, County or City) or AASHTO standards at both conceptual and final design levels
Participates on interdisciplinary teams with technical responsibilities in the areas of traffic operations analysis and simulation
Lead, manage, and perform assignments from concept through preliminary and final design
Reports to Senior Engineer or Project Manager in the Roadway Group
Markets our transportation business line
Leads marketing strategy for the Boise office Transportation group
Oversees and directly participates in the preparation of marketing materials, including proposals, scopes of work, and cost strategies
Coordinates and participates in cross-sales activities with other business lines, in particular the Survey and Land Development groups in Boise
Transportation Design Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Transportation Design
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: EIT, PMP, WSDOT, PM, PE, ASQ
Education for Transportation Design
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the transportation design job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Civil Engineering, Engineering, Design, Technical, Business, Construction, Management, Science, Civil Engineering Technology, Education
Skills for Transportation Design
Desired skills for transportation design include:
Develop and manage metrics against the design budget for early detection of budget overruns
Project Control processes and procedures
Subcontract management and administration
Understand quantity tracking
Excel
Highway
Local transportation agencies in Northern Virginia
Municipal and roadway engineering and design
AutoCAD Civil 3D would be helpful but is
CAD
Desired experience for transportation design includes:
Traffic engineering design principles
Thorough knowledge of CDM Regulations
Able to conduct peer reviews where necessary
Adaptable and flexible to cope with the variety of responsibilities involved
Knowledge of Open Roads, In Roads, Geopack, MicroStation are essential and also, Auto CADD, Navis works, clash analysis
Any International design exp-like Australia, Middle East, European exp
Transportation Design Examples
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Transportation Design Job Description
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Our company is looking for a transportation design. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for transportation design
- Partake/lead project delivery for transit infrastructure planning
- Lead and collaborate in the writing of proposals
- Lead the development of accurate scopes of work, cost estimates, project plans, schedules and deliverables for high quality project execution
- Provide guidance and mentor to other team members
- Liaise with all discipline team members, sub consultants, clients and agencies
- Build and maintaining relationships with existing and potential clients
- Creating long and mid-term transportation network topologies
- Working closely with your team members (Operations Research Scientists and Transportation Network Planners) to drive analysis, business cases and alignment with business stake-holders
- Managing team members along with business and program growth
- Supporting the creation of long and mid-term transportation network topologies
Qualifications for transportation design
- Experienced user of MS Office, MS Project, AutoCAD (including add-ons such as KeySigns etc)
- Engineering design for highways schemes
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering along with 10 years’ experience in the design and/or management of transportation projects design management experience on at least two major Design Build projects with construction values over $100 million and a PE License
- Experience with MicroStation, InRoads, AutoCAD and storm drain system analysis required
- MicroStation & InRoads experience preferred
- Experience in AutoCAD, MicroStation and InRoads preferred
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of transportation design. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for transportation design
- Inform the decision process to pursue design-build/alternative delivery projects and select the team and sub consultants
- Identify potential clients and projects, develop and implement pursuit strategies, develop and manage client relations, and monitor client satisfaction
- On selected projects, the position could serve as the design-build design manager, project manager, technical task leader, or reviewer/advisor
- Oversee the development of design and planning project schedules and budgets
- Review Cost Estimates / Opinions of Probably Construction Cost
- Assists management team in identifying staffing needs based on future workload and manpower projections for project staffing
- Reviews and makes decision on recommendations for salary offers for new hire candidates, salary and position adjustment actions for project staff, subject to senior management review and approval
- Conducts semi-annual performance reviews and annual career planning sessions with project staff within assigned projects
- Helps staff identify and pursue technical and professional development activities consistent with their career development goals and project objectives/needs
- Advises project staff concerning company policies and procedures
Qualifications for transportation design
- Master’s degree in Civil Engineering can substitute for up to two years of work experience
- Professional Engineer (PE) registration in Colorado or ability to obtain within six months of starting employment
- Must possess a valid driver's license as some overnight travel may be required
- Highly IT competent
- Proficiency with AutoCad and/or MicroStation V8 is preferred
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering
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Our company is hiring for a transportation design. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for transportation design
- Participates in cross-functional groups to create the expected customer outcomes
- Interacts with internal and external customers on an as needed basis
- Supports the preparation of results into proposal documents or other engineering reports and presentations for customers and management
- Helps ensure a solution will meet financial goals and provide cost savings
- Meets customer deadlines by providing required designs and analysis
- Develops an understanding of the customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met
- Understands what the customer does, what their business model is and what their expectations are
- Prepares project plans and specifications related to ITS elements such as fiber optic cable systems, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras and Dynamic Message Signs (DMS)
- Designs communications systems between field devices and central operations centers
- Designs signing, pavement markings and traffic signal installations
Qualifications for transportation design
- Minimum of 15 years related experience in transportation engineering industry with hands on experience in urban municipal roadway and transit transportation
- Must be registered or be eligible for registration with APEGA
- Familiarity with the difference between urban and rural transportation philosophy is a must
- Proven experience with Municipal transportation projects is a must
- Previous Transit and LRT planning experience is a must
- Proven capabilities in writing proposals, reports and other technical documents
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Our growing company is hiring for a transportation design. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for transportation design
- Pinpoint and market new clients
- Is recognized and valued by the business group as being an expert modeler/designer
- Takes responsibility for their portion of the discipline’s scope, schedule and budget and delegates accordingly to junior staff
- Expert in advancing workflows, systems and tools within their own discipline
- Strong organization, business development and communication skills
- Be responsible for the description and implementation of stakeholder requirements (e.g., at the level of global/region, business unit or complex production) in the process design, per the corresponding E2E process strategy
- Ensure the efficient and effective operation of the given processes through analysis of KPIs/PPIs, identifying improvement areas, and performing corresponding improvement initiatives (Global)
- Serve as the gatekeeper to sign-off future process designs in a complex environment
- Maintain E2E-process documentation within applications and guidelines provided by business process management
- Support the exchange/promotion of best practice solutions and process improvements, and ensuring sustainable maintenance of process knowledge/process integrity
Qualifications for transportation design
- Previous experience being formally accountable for business development growth and targets
- Experience with the design of alternate delivery projects (P3 / DB) is an asset
- Four-year degree in Architecture, Engineering or related technical/business field
- Minimum of 15 years of related work experience in transportation design is required
- Architectural or structural experience in Rail / Transit project delivery is strongly preferred
- Going into the fall 2017 semester, it's required of candidates to be enrolled in at least their junior year within a Civil Engineering curriculum at an ABET university
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of transportation design. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for transportation design
- Data collection and field work
- Managing public processes, and
- Project implementation oversight
- Reviews layout quality in the field and provide supervision to interns or technicians
- Contribute to the strategy, prioritize technical and operational initiatives, evaluate and set stakeholders expectations
- Work closely with commercial, operational and technical stakeholders to drive the implementation of initiatives
- Drive cross functional teams to deliver programs
- Work in a team environment with other project engineers on the detailed drainage design of urban and rural transportation projects
- Conducts storm drainage analysis and design per the requirements of the project and various transportation public agencies such as TxDOT
- Provide support in the preparation of contract drainage drawings, specifications, and estimates
Qualifications for transportation design
- Certification as a registered professional engineer, Massachusetts P.E
- TxDOT certification(s) preferred
- 10+ years of civil transporation engineering design project management experience preferred
- Registered Professional Engineer in Utah or the ability to obtain with 3 months
- 13+ years of transportation experience, 10 of which involve design build/alternative delivery projects, state and local facilities including highways/roadways, transit, structures, drainage facilities, and related infrastructure improvements
- Experience working with counties, municipalities, department of transportation, and contractors in Utah