Transit Civil Engineer
About The Position
Kimley-Horn's Seattle, Washington (WA) office is seeking a Civil Engineer with 7+ years of experience to join their Transit team. The selected candidate will contribute to the production and delivery of transit design projects with a particular focus on, but not limited to Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Light Rail Transit (LRT) projects. The qualified individual will assist in managing and lead a Transit team while building and managing relationships with key clients. This role requires an entrepreneurial spirit, creating a vision for growth in their personal practice while contributing to the growth of the transportation engineering practice in the local area and beyond. The role involves marketing and business development efforts with existing local municipal, state, and private clients, and delivering a wide variety of transit related projects with a growing team of transit professionals. Various tasks may include corridor concept development, assistance in public outreach, and transit evaluation. This role will require a high degree of multi-disciplinary coordination. Project Managers manage their projects profitably, transition work to qualified staff, grow and mentor staff, and act as a positive leader and mentor. The successful candidate will be given a great deal of autonomy to lead, direct, and grow their business. With success, this individual will enjoy the rewards of an impressive bonus program with the potential to advance to ownership. This is an in-person role.
Requirements
- Registered Professional Engineering (P.E.) license
- 7+ years of transit-focused engineering experience including:
- Transit corridor design experience, focused on (but not limited to) BRT and LRT modes
- Track/guideway design
- Roadway design
- Station design, including park-and-ride facilities
- Outgoing, self-motivated team player
- High level of proficiency in AutoCAD Civil 3D
- Experience communicating and working with clients
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills and detail-orientation
- Ability to balance priorities among multiple projects
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the production and delivery of transit design projects with a particular focus on, but not limited to Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Light Rail Transit (LRT) projects
- Assist in managing and lead a Transit team
- Build and manage relationships with key clients
- Create a vision for growth in their personal practice while contributing to the growth of our transportation engineering practice in the local area and beyond
- Assist in marketing and business development efforts with our existing local municipal, state, and private clients
- Deliver a wide variety of transit related projects with our growing team of transit professionals
- Operate with integrity and sound business principals
- Provide vision, business planning and strategy
- Establish goals
- Build and maintain positive client relationships
- Have open communication with your partners and team
- Grow and lead a transit practice
- Perform various tasks including corridor concept development, assistance in public outreach, and transit evaluation
- Manage projects profitably
- Transition work to qualified staff
- Grow and mentor staff
- Act as a positive leader and mentor
- Lead, direct, and grow their business
Benefits
- Robust benefits package
- Impressive bonus program
- Potential to advance to ownership
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
