Principal Designer - Roads & Highways

Parsons Corporation•Oakville, ON

About The Position

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Principal Designer - Roads & Highways to join our team! In this role you will get to lead the design and production of both our municipal roadways and highway projects of our GTR Critical Infrastructure group. For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next! This job posting is for a current addition or replacement opportunity within Parsons. Founded in 1944, Parsons Corporation, a digitally enabled solutions provider, is focused on creating the future of the defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets. From Earth to outer space, we deliver tomorrow’s solutions today. Equipped with the capabilities required to take on any defense, intelligence, or critical infrastructure challenge, our agile, innovative, and disruptive approach enables us to deliver solutions at the speed of relevance. Our people are our greatest asset. We strive to be an employer of choice that engages employees in the community and creates rewarding career paths to cultivate a resilient workforce that is ready for the future.

Requirements

Bachelor/Associate’s degree or equivalent technical certificate from an accredited designer/drafter program.
10+ years of relevant experience in roads and highways design and drafting.
Proficiency with Bentley tools, including MicroStation, ProjectWise, and OpenRoads Designer.
Ability to interpret and ensure conformance to applicable standards such as TAC, MTO/GTR Municipal CAD standards, and company policies and procedures, including the ability to set up workspace environments.
Strong focus on accuracy, quality, and adherence to established drafting conventions.

Nice To Haves

Proficiency with AutoCAD Civil3D is an asset.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and production of municipal roadways and highway projects.
Use Bentley OpenRoads and/or Civil 3D CAD software to prepare detailed engineering design and drawings, including 3D roadway corridor modelling, based on preliminary sketches or general engineering information, following established standards and procedures.
Collaborate closely across other relevant disciplines and with other Designer/Drafters and Engineers to ensure coordinated and accurate designs.
Apply standard drafting and design principles to complete assignments efficiently and effectively.
Compile data and perform dimensional and routine calculations required for the preparation of drawings.
Make necessary changes, additions, and revisions to drawings, following a structured quality control process that includes checking, backchecking, correcting, and verifying.
Manage the assembly and delivery of completed drawing sets within the roads and highways discipline.