Senior Transportation Engineer

Job Description

Description

KLJ Engineering is looking for a dynamic Senior Transportation Engineer to join our team and lead transformative projects that enhance connectivity, sustainability, and efficiency in our communities. As a senior member of our engineering team, you will spearhead the design, implementation, and management of transportation infrastructure, leveraging your expertise to address complex challenges and drive impactful, forward-thinking solutions. Join us in shaping the future of transportation and making a lasting impact on the way people move and interact within our cities.Your Growth OpportunityThe Senior Engineer is responsible for providing overall leadership and guidance on large and complex engineering projects. The position will be responsible for serving as engineer of record. The position ensures the technical portion of projects is executed in line with KLJ’s quality expectations and standards that ultimately deliver on our strategy of providing an exceptional client experience. 

• Apply civil engineering principles and standards to perform and direct engineering tasks as the Engineer of Record
• Ensure proper Engineering practices and techniques are used by the design team or project team by providing direction, review, and support.
• Serve as a technical resource/lead on projects or tasks for large-scale projects.
• Demonstrates competency in multiple project phases (planning, design, construction, etc.)
• Leads design tasks and construction administration/observation activities as a Professional Engineer
• Lead Quality Assurance and Quality Control reviews on large-scale multi-discipline projects to ensure compliance with KLJ quality standards.
• Instruct, train, and mentor group members.
• Participate in and facilitate meetings.
• Utilize effective written and oral communication.

What you're responsible for

• Manage multiple project teams ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget.
• Responsible for providing technical expertise on a wide array of discipline-specific projects/project elements including design, specifications, plans, maps, and project execution within the approved schedule and budget.
• Responsible for the coordination, review, and completion of design calculations, plans, specifications, cost estimates, construction documents, and reports as the Engineer of record
• Responsible for coordination and communication with engineers, architects, contractors
• Serve as project or task manager for large-scale projects with minimal support as the Engineer of Record
• Serve as Engineer of Record (EOR), discipline lead, project manager, or client manager and provide overall project oversight.
• Provide direction, review, and support to the group by leading projects, and assuring proper practices and techniques.
• Provide input on business development efforts and lead project meetings development with direction from Market teams.
• Assist with client relations throughout project phases.
• Confer with project team members and clients to lead, prepare, and participate in project proposals and interviews.
• May serve as technical lead on projects or tasks for large-scale projects.

What you'll need

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from an ABET-accredited post-secondary institution.
• PE is required.
• Demonstrate competency with markets, clients, and projects of specific service offerings.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and be able to operate motorized vehicles.

Preferences:

• Postgraduate degree in a specialized field
• Certifications in identified specialization.
• Project Management experience
• Prior Engineering Consultant Experience 

Physical RequirementsThe physical demands described represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.The employee is regularly required to:

• Sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, twist, crouch, and crawl.
• Use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.
• Talk or hear and communicate clearly.

The employee must:

• Frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Who we are:Here at KLJ, we are Safe, Inclusive, Learners, Performers, and Owners. We care that you get home safely. Every person, every idea, and every voice matters. We encourage personal and professional growth. We celebrate performance. As a 100% employee-owned firm, your decisions and efforts will help shape OUR great company.Why work at KLJ KLJ Engineering might be just the company you have been looking for. We are that perfect size – not so big that you become a number, not so small that our resources are limited. Here, you can be you, in all your engineering, surveying, planning, and scientific glory just as you are. We embrace how much you love engineering because we love it too. We love it when a road curves just right, when we see a familiar water tower on our drive home, or when we consider the fiber in the ground connects us to our friends and family. If you want to join a great firm, with amazing technical talent, we know just the place, here at KLJ. What else do you need to know:At KLJ, we have a vested interest in our employees' personal, financial, and professional goals. The anticipated wage for this position will be between $99-$121K.We offer a competitive full-suite benefit package including health, dental, vision, and life insurance, performance bonus, 401k, employee stock ownership program, and a flexible work environment that gives you options to excel both professionally and personally.All applicants must be authorized to work in the US, without employer sponsorship. KLJ does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas and does not participate in any OPT training program.KLJ will not be partnering with third-party recruiters on this position.  Please review our third-party recruiting policy at www.kljeng.com.The position will be posted until filled. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with DisabilitiesThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)