Senior Highway Project Engineer

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals, providing a full range of multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT is currently ranked #45 on Engineering News-Record’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

Position summary: Responsible for leading, overseeing, or performing engineering design using advanced knowledge of general engineering principles and practices to interpret, organize, execute, and coordinate assignments with limited supervision. Acts as a technical advisor and mentor to less experienced engineers. 

Compensation for this position is $130,000.00 - $170,000.00, commensurate with experience, education and certifications. The provided range is a good faith estimate based on the requirements described within the job description. We notice that we receive a wide variety of applicants and recognize that the person selected may be less experienced or more experienced. If so, the actual salary range may vary from the estimate provided.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Lead the design for multiple concurrent projects and tasks for your discipline.
• Assist Project Manager with consultative services to the client by understanding client requirements, recommendations, and solutions to enhance client experience.
• Attends client meetings or interviews in support of project manager.
• Plan, schedule, conduct or coordinate detailed phases of the engineering work in a part of a major project or in a total project of moderate scope.
• Design projects using advanced discipline knowledge, client specifications and guidelines using design software and drawing tools.
• Develop solutions to complex problems and share best practices/lessons learned on a wide scale (company, client, or industry)
• Defining parameters, reviewing, and presenting alternative studies based on experience and advanced engineering knowledge.
• Prepare or lead the preparation of engineering documents, technical reports, memos, etc.
• Evaluate and collaborate on discipline’s workflow and standard operating procedures to increase efficiency.
• Perform and check design computations.
• Quality review of project design in accordance with the Project Management Plan.
• Provide cross disciplinary and constructability reviews on complex projects.
• Providing input to project manager and section head with scope development, work hours for tasks, and project schedule creation for discipline. 
• Manage and lead work to meet provided project schedule and budget relevant to discipline.
• Coordinate and collaborate with team members and other disciplines to ensure project completion by the defined deadline and established quality.
• Delegate project work to design engineers, coordinate project requirements, and perform quality reviews.
• Mentor and coach on technical knowledge to advance their skill development and advise on project design.
• Actively participating and contributing (presenting, publishing papers, etc.)  in industry organizations, publications, and/or conversations.

Nonessential Functions and Responsibilities

• Perform other related duties as assigned