Team Leader - Roadway Engineering

What You Will Do

GFT is seeking a Team Lead - Roadway Engineering to join our Transportation Team in Omaha, NE. This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring regular attendance at our Omaha, NE office. Working on the Transportation team at GFT offers the opportunity to engage in transformative projects that enhance transportation infrastructure and improve community connectivity. Whether working on highways and bridges or traffic engineering, our team excels in resilient, sustainable design and construction, delivering innovative solutions that address the complexities of modern, multimodal roadway systems and ensure safe, efficient, and reliable travel for all.

Explore some of our signature Transportation projects here.

• Project Management
  • Perform project management and engineering tasks related to the planning and design of transportation facilities such as freeways, arterials, intersections, railroad and drainage. Be part of a Design Team that produces plans, specifications, cost estimates and schedules for transportation construction projects. Duties include oversight and preparation of engineering reports, engineering calculations, and analysis and furnishing technical documentation for design projects. Work tasks generally pertain to planning and design functions for highways, arterials, traffic, drainage and site design.
    
    Attendance at meetings and interaction with clients should be expected. Effective written and oral communication skills are imperative.
  • Oversee project delivery by providing direction and oversight to project team members for the completion of technical efforts including roadway, traffic, drainage and site design projects and reports.
  • Answer any questions and review shop drawings during the construction phase of the project.
• Oversee Team Members
  • Support and develop team members
  • Schedule regular status meetings / in‑person meetings with team members
  • Develop/Manage labor projections for the team
  • Facilitate resourcing for the team
  • Review/oversee project budgets
  • QA/QC – Work with team members to ensure quality expectations are being met.
  • Develop contingency and team member transition plans, identify successors and provide mentorship.
  • Communicate timely and effectively with Division Leader, Area Business Manager and other leaders within the area.
• Employee Management
  • Ensure focus on creating a work environment that retains top talent, creates development opportunities for employees, communicates performance concerns, mentors, supports positive morale, and strategically acquires new talent.
• Financial Responsibilities
  • Lead the project management of projects both technically and financially to meet client expectations in completing quality projects on‑time and on budget.
  • Work with team members on project performance.
  • Work with Business Manager for PM meetings. Review at‑risk projects.
  • Manage / optimize utilization – review / discuss and resolve any utilization issues with team members.
• Business Development
  • Develop/maintain client relationships
  • Proposals / RFQs – Go/No Go.
  • Client Service Team Meetings – Provide input and support where needed.
• Coordination with others
  • Work with Division Leader to ensure optimal utilization/workload by sharing work as necessary across multiple teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering required.
• Minimum of 15 years’ professional roadway engineering experience.
• Experience leading a team.
• Registered as a licensed Professional Engineer (PE), preferably in Nebraska or Iowa.
• Professional experience in design and preparation of plan submittals related to highway and arterial roadway design, complex intersection design, local roadways, site design, bridge replacement/rehabilitation, traffic design, drainage design for NDOT, MoDOT, KDOT, Iowa DOT and other DOTs and municipal agencies.
• Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, and various engineering software systems depending on discipline:
  AutoCAD;
  Micro Station/Geo Pak;
  In Roads, Land Desktop, and Civil 3D.

• A minimum of 10 years design experience.
• Experience with NDOT and Iowa DOT design‑build.

The salary range for this role is $140,000 -…