Transportation Designer 1 (early career professional)
About The Position
Join our dynamic team of transportation planners and designers dedicated to creating innovative, practical solutions that improve safety, connectivity, and accessibility. Collaborating closely with our traffic engineers, you'll help develop and implement roadway improvements that solve immediate traffic challenges while supporting long-term community goals. If you're passionate about shaping smarter, safer transportation systems, we’d love you to be a part of our team! The Transportation Designer 1 is responsible for performing entry-level engineering calculations, design and drafting for a variety of transportation projects including sidewalks and bike paths, local roadways and intersections, highways and freeways, and other transportation facilities as assigned. Duties may include assisting with site visits, CAD drafting, geometric roadway layout and design, 3D modeling, writing project specifications and technical reports, calculating construction quantities, and estimating construction costs, and project correspondence. The person in this position is expected to exercise a strong work ethic, desire to learn new design concepts, and have good organizational and communication skills. A successful Transportation Designer 1 should demonstrate basic proficiency with basic drafting fundamentals in at least one software platform and be able to quickly learn and apply new 2D and 3D design concepts. This person is expected to work well with others, absorb and apply constructive criticism, and seek guidance from more experienced members of the team as necessary. This position will work under the guidance of a licensed professional engineer.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree required
- Basic understanding of technical fundamentals
- Motivated to learn new technical skills through self-study and mentoring
- Basic understanding of technical writing skills and clear internal communications (emails, meeting minutes, etc.)
- Team player who mostly functions in a supporting role in a project team setting.
- Collaborates, listens, takes direction well, and retains information provided.
- Is motivated to grow skills and help the team.
- Basic understanding of scopes, schedules, and budgets.
- Collaborates with supervisor and/or resource manager to plan work time on assignments.
- Infrequent direct client interaction.
- Operates with minimal autonomy – work is closely supervised by more senior staff.
- EIT/EI required (within 6 months of hire)
- Driving is an essential job function or a valid driver’s license is required to support legitimate business purposes
- Regularly required to sit.
- Required to talk and hear.
- Regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands.
- Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
Nice To Haves
- Basic proficiency with basic drafting fundamentals in at least one software platform
Responsibilities
- Performs basic technical tasks assigned by market sector with oversight from others
- Produces technical reports and memos
- Produces specifications
- Produces construction quantity calculations and cost estimates
- Produces design documents and construction plans
- Conducts basic monitoring of budget and schedule for simple project tasks assigned.
- Reads emails, occasionally attends client meetings, listens, and prepares meeting minutes.
- Performs basic levels of technical work on projects in support of more experienced staff within the market sector.
Benefits
- Great benefits
- Support your growth
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
