Our Puget Sound Region is hiring a Transportation Roadway Project Engineer to support our Roads and Highways group while working on transportation related projects. This position can be filled in our Bellevue, Tacoma, Seattle or Olympia offices and will support DEA's challenging transportation projects including Fish Passage and design-build.

A successful candidate will be a highly motivated self-starter assigned to work on multidiscipline projects using specialized technical skills, experience and engineering judgment to transform concept designs into construction drawings and technical specifications. The work may include street improvements, utility plans, freeway, highway and roadway design, construction documents and all necessary supporting documentation. Our ideal candidate would be proficient with horizontal and vertical alignment design, stormwater/sanitary sewer/waterline designs, utility relocations, coordination with structural engineers and other engineering disciplines, quantity take-offs, specifications, and engineer's estimates. Traffic engineering design, including traffic signal and illumination, experience is a plus. The candidate would also be eager to accept new challenges to diversify their skills by not only performing transportation engineering work, but also construction observation, general civil design, and traffic engineering. Finally, a successful candidate will have good interpersonal and communication skills that can thrive in a hybrid in-office/remote work setting.

Other duties include:

• Serve as task leader to coordinate projects with project managers and team members
• Provide sketches and/or detailed layout information to design staff for incorporation into the construction drawings
• Design, prepare and analyze preliminary and final plans in Autodesk Civil 3D and Microstation/InRoads software
• Prepare and design street/highway improvement plans
• Analyzes maps, reports, drawings, as-builts for design projects
• Develop reports, specifications and designs for projects
• Develop, track and modify project schedules.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering
• Professional Civil Engineering License
• 5+ years of civil engineering design related to roadway projects
• Microstation/Inroads project experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Technical writing skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional Civil Engineering License in State of Washington
• Project experience with Bentley OpenRoads
• Professional Engineering license in the State of Washington
• Project experience with WSDOT and local public agencies
• Experience developing project schedules in Primavera P6

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off (PTO)/Holiday Pay
• Health Savings and Lifestyle Spending Account with employer contributions
• 401k and Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP)
• Flexible 9/80 (every other Friday off) work schedule
• Holistic Wellbeing Program with a focus on physical, emotional, financial, career and community health
• Opportunity for growth with support and mentoring to help with professional goals
• Ability to work in a hybrid in-office/remote work setting
• Potential salary range is $90,000-$120,000 depending on location and experience
• Hybrid friendly work schedule

Transportation Jobs with DEA

The increasing complexities of modern transportation include growing demands, aging infrastructure, rising costs, funding challenges, and environmental concerns. Agencies and communities faced with improving their transportation systems must do more with less. From initial investigations through planning, concept development, final design, and construction, DEA responds with solutions that serve today's transportation needs while accommodating tomorrow's growth. Our Transportation Business Unit focuses on five markets including Roads and Highways, Bridges and Structures, Transit and Rail, Smart Mobility and Construction Engineering.

Potential office locations include: Bellevue, WA; Olympia, WA; Tacoma, WA; Seattle, WA.