Design Engineer

Come excel with us! A career-defining opportunity awaits an accomplished design professional with a passion for Transportation, people, and design. The Department of Transportation is looking for a dynamic individual who wants to join a high-performing team of professionals to better the quality of life for our community through engineering, designing, and building multimodal transportation facilities. The Design Branch delivers first-class transportation designs on time and within budget for projects ranging from simple sidewalks to major regional roadway facilities and multi-million-dollar interchanges.

If you are a motivated and hardworking individual, come work within the most successful road-building program in the Commonwealth. This is your opportunity to imprint your direct impact on the community, while utilizing your engineering, analytical, management, and communication skills in a diverse and exciting work environment. The successful candidate will apply these skills to support the successful delivery of critical transportation facilities in one of the most collaborative and progressive Departments of Transportation in the Commonwealth.

The Design Engineer will be responsible for coordinating all aspects of design and management of transportation projects, including right-of-way acquisition and utility relocations consistent with Federal, State, and local guidelines. This position will play a major role in successfully delivering the engineering design of various multimodal transportation projects. The position presents a unique opportunity to highlight the chosen candidate’s management skills through monitoring scope, budget, schedule, and documenting a living project record from inception to completion.

The Design Engineer will interact with elected officials, internal and external leaders, and the public through public information meetings and public hearings on assigned projects. The position interfaces cross-functionally between engineering design (survey, roadway, geotechnical drainage, environmental, structures), budgeting, construction, finance, procurement, and planning, and assists in preparing cost estimates, conceptual sketches, and plans to prepare project funding packages.

The successful candidate will manage multiple projects and priorities with competing deadlines and limited resources by exercising their leadership skills to manage a project design consultant team. The Design Engineer will lead multiple transportation capital projects from concept through project close-out, including consultant selection and contract negotiation, coordination and collaboration with stakeholders, maintaining schedule and budget requirements, and managing consultants in all phases of design and specification development.

Working independently as well as with other team members from the construction, right of way and finance groups is essential to the Design Engineer’s success with our department. Exceptional written and verbal communication and organization skills, ability to provide excellent customer service, and demonstrated technical and analytical engineering background are mandatory for this position.

In addition to meeting minimum qualifications, the professional best suited for this expert-level position will be naturally inclined to be a strong advocate for mobility and transportation. This individual must be able to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a higher level of attention to detail. A licensed Professional Engineer is preferred with 5-8 years of experience in multimodal transportation project design.

• Knowledge of and experience with local, state, and federal standards, guidelines, and policies, including VDOT design standards, manuals, and specifications.
• Prior experience developing and reviewing engineering, right-of-way/utility plans and final construction plans, preparing procurement documents (RFQ, RFP, Task Orders), and processing financial documents (invoices) for large-scale transportation construction projects.
• Practical familiarity with various project delivery and government procurement methods for capital improvement…