Transportation Designer 1 (early career professional)

DOWL • Fairbanks, AK

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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!

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required
• 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
• Basic understanding of technical fundamentals
• Performs basic technical tasks assigned by market sector with oversight from others
• 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.
• Demonstrates basic familiarity with AASHTO and FHWA design codes.
• Demonstrates basic familiarity with Local Client design codes.
• Infrequent direct client interaction.
• Performs basic levels of technical work on projects in support of more experienced staff within the market sector.
• Operates with minimal autonomy – work is closely supervised by senior staff.

Nice To Haves

• Microstation Connect and OpenRoads software experience (if applicable)

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrating 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.
• Working well with others, absorbing and applying constructive criticism, and seeking guidance from more experienced members of the team as necessary.
• Producing technical reports and memos, specifications, construction quantity calculations and cost estimates, design documents and construction plans, and exhibits under close direction/oversight from others.
• Collaborating with supervisor and/or resource manager to plan work time on assignments.
• Conducting basic monitoring of budget and schedule for simple project tasks assigned.
• Reading emails, occasionally attending client meetings, listening, and preparing meeting minutes.

Benefits

• Support your growth
• Offer great benefits
• Foster a culture of integrity, professionalism, and teamwork

What This Job Offers

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