Associate Designer, Highway

GFT • Wilmington, NC

1d • $60,900 - $75,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

GFT is seeking an Associate Designer to join our Transportation team in Wilmington NC. This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring regular attendance at our Wilmington NC office. Working on the transportation team at GFT offers the opportunity to engage in transformative projects that enhance transportation infrastructure and improve community connectivity. Whether working on highways and bridges or traffic engineering, our team excels in resilient, sustainable design and construction, delivering innovative solutions that address the complexities of modern, multimodal roadway systems and ensure safe, efficient, and reliable travel for all. The role involves working with a highly functioning, entrepreneurial, autonomous team and being responsible for providing design & multidisciplinary coordination for a variety of projects and clients, including the North Carolina DOT and various municipalities in the region. In this role, you will have the opportunity to grow/enhance your transportation engineering design skills and take on significant responsibility for delivering exciting work. Working closely with peers and supervisors, you will have the opportunity to work with clients and attend meetings, coordinate in a multi-disciplinary and collaborative team environment, contribute to planning, preliminary design and detail design for interesting infrastructure projects, prepare detailed engineering drawings (plans, profiles, sections, and miscellaneous details) with limited to high complexity in support of broader engineering activities, develop practical applications of engineering principles and ensure compliance with local, provincial, and federal regulations and standards, produce plans, 3D models and 2D drawings using AutoCAD and Civil 3D, or MicroStation & InRoads, gather and record information to be used for cost estimating, prepare specifications, conduct site inspections & investigations during design development process, and interface and manage civil engineering sub disciplines such as drainage, traffic, geotechnical, survey and others.

Requirements

• University Degree in Engineering.
• Experience/interest in road, transportation, or transit design.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Bentley MicroStation/InRoads/OpenRoads.
• Experience with AutoCAD & Civil 3D.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools.
• Knowledge of current trends and technologies in transportation engineering.
• Methodical approach to problem solving.
• Initiative to undertake tasks efficiently and independently.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients and attendance at meetings is required.
• Coordinate in a multi-disciplinary and collaborative team environment.
• Contribute to planning, preliminary design and detail design for interesting infrastructure projects.
• Prepare detailed engineering drawings (plans, profiles, sections, and miscellaneous details) with limited to high complexity in support of broader engineering activities.
• Develop practical applications of engineering principles and ensure compliance with local, provincial, and federal regulations and standards.
• Produce plans, 3D models and 2D drawings using AutoCAD and Civil 3D, or MicroStation & InRoads.
• Gather and record information to be used for cost estimating.
• Prepare specifications.
• Conduct site inspections & investigations during design development process.
• Provide technical writing input to proposals, feasibility studies, design criteria and other reports.
• Interfacate and manage civil engineering sub disciplines such as drainage, traffic, geotechnical, survey and others.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including wellness programs, parental leave, and pet insurance, in addition to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Competitive paid-time-off (PTO) accrual.
• Tuition reimbursement for continued education.
• Commitment to professional development, access to internal and external training programs, and support of active participation in professional organizations.
• Incentive compensation for eligible positions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level