Sr. Project Engineer / Technical Director - Highways and Roads
About The Position
Join a dynamic team of transportation professionals dedicated to delivering innovative, sustainable, and community-focused infrastructure solutions. As a Senior Project Engineer / Technical Director – Transportation (Highways and Roads), you will drive the success of complex highway, roadway, and active transportation projects, while providing technical leadership, mentoring staff, supporting client relationships, and helping grow GHD's transportation practice in Northern California and the US West. GHD's US West Region seeks an accomplished Senior Project Engineer / Technical Director to support and grow our transportation practice from our Eureka, California office. We are seeking a senior transportation professional with a strong background in roadway design, PS&E development, project delivery, and technical leadership for projects serving Caltrans, counties, cities, and other public agencies throughout Northern California. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership on a wide variety of transportation projects including highways, local roadways, complete streets, intersections, interchanges, active transportation facilities, roadway rehabilitation, corridor improvements, and federally funded transportation programs. This individual will serve as a technical resource, mentor staff, lead project delivery, and act as Engineer of Record and Responsible Engineer on complex transportation projects. This position will be located in our Eureka, CA office. Certain projects may require significant time working from client offices, project offices, or field locations as part of integrated project teams supporting the delivery of complex transportation infrastructure projects. Relocation assistance may be considered for qualified candidates. Our Hybrid Work Model: Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.
Requirements
- Current California Professional Civil Engineer (PE) license required.
- 12-20+ years of transportation engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead, project engineer, design manager, engineer of record, or responsible engineer on transportation infrastructure projects.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams through planning, environmental clearance, design, PS&E development, and construction support phases.
- Extensive experience delivering transportation projects for Caltrans and/or local agencies utilizing state and federal funding.
- Strong working knowledge of: Caltrans Highway Design Manual, Project Development Procedures Manual (PDPM), Standard Plans and Standard Specifications, CA MUTCD, ADA accessibility requirements, Federal-aid transportation project delivery requirements.
- Experience developing PS&E packages and supporting projects through construction.
Nice To Haves
- Experience serving as Engineer of Record or Responsible Engineer on transportation projects.
- Experience serving as Engineer in Responsible Charge for Caltrans and/or federally funded local agency transportation projects.
- Experience serving as Project Engineer, Design Manager, or Technical Lead on complex transportation infrastructure projects.
- Experience delivering federally funded local agency projects.
- Experience with major corridor improvements, complete streets, interchange, intersection, roadway rehabilitation projects, and non-motorized trails.
- Experience with alternative delivery methods including CMGC or Design-Build is desirable.
- Existing relationships with Northern California transportation agencies are highly desirable.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across multiple offices.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior technical lead, Engineer of Record, Responsible Engineer, or Engineer in Responsible Charge on transportation projects.
- Serve in responsible charge for the development and delivery of transportation infrastructure projects and provide technical oversight throughout planning, design, and construction.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams in the planning, design, and delivery of roadway, highway, intersection, interchange, complete streets, active transportation, roadway rehabilitation, corridor improvement, and multimodal transportation projects.
- Provide technical oversight and guidance for roadway geometrics, drainage coordination, traffic handling, complete streets design, ADA improvements, and PS&E development.
- Oversee preparation and review of plans, specifications, estimates, technical reports, and engineering studies.
- Ensure compliance with Caltrans, FHWA, AASHTO, MUTCD, and local agency requirements.
- Champion technical excellence, quality management, and risk-based decision-making throughout project delivery.
- Support successful delivery of projects for Caltrans, cities, counties, RTPAs/MPOs, tribal governments, and other transportation agency clients throughout Northern California and the US West.
- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to clients and stakeholders throughout project delivery.
- Support construction phase services including RFIs, submittal reviews, design support, and change order evaluations.
- Mentor engineers, designers, and project managers.
- Support technical development and succession planning within the transportation practice.
- Foster a culture of quality, collaboration, safety, and continuous improvement.
- Support pursuit strategy, proposal development, interviews, and client relationship management.
- Identify and pursue opportunities with Caltrans, local agencies, and transportation funding programs.
- Contribute to growth of the transportation practice throughout Northern California and the broader US West region.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be considered for qualified candidates.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
