Engineering Manager, Transportation Design

Seeking a new career challenge? Then Woolpert is seeking you! Woolpert is hiring an Engineering Manager, Transportation Design to join our dynamic Infrastructure team at our Ohio offices (Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland). This position reports to the Discipline Leader and is responsible for staff work assignments, career growth and day to day management of staff. Qualified candidates will have the ability to work across disciplines to ensure project staffing or project completion. Priority will be given to candidates who have prior people management experience.

As an Engineering Manager, Transportation Design at Woolpert, you will:

Be looked to for leading designs, breaking off work on projects, doing QAQC as well as helping with proposals for new work.
• Be in a dual role requiring a specific personality and the desire to help staff achieve goals.
• Work across several project managers to properly staff projects and maintain a healthy work environment.
• Be very collaborative, working between other transportation disciplines as well as across non-transportation disciplines.
• Be able to balance being a transportation engineer with being a people manager and look for both facets to grow and excel.
• Be responsible for staff growth, goal setting, reviews and day to day management.
• Hire new staff as needed to Team.
• Work with project managers to ensure projects are staffed correctly.
• Work with project managers on proposals, scopes and fees.
• Lead design of complex roadway and transportation projects that require creative solutions. Projects include roadway, bikeways, pedestrian facilities, roundabouts, trails, multi-modal transportation or transportation planning.
• Direct engineering design tasks such as highway and street design, roadway alignments, roundabout design, roadway grading and modeling, curb ramp design, signing and pavement plan, maintenance of traffic, storm drainage.
• Use local and federal roadway standards to prepare preliminary and final design documents, cost estimates, and bid documents.
• Perform detailed review of design plans and supporting documents.

Minimum Requirements

• BS in Civil Engineering or related technical design field.
• Must be a licensed PE
• Must work near an office that staff are in (Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland).
• Must be a leader and can lead a team consisting of a variety of experience levels and backgrounds.
• Ability to work across disciplines to ensure project staffing or project completion.
• If licensed in another state, the ability to obtain a license in Ohio.
• Ability to lead design as well as allocate work to others.
• Experience in Roadway, Highway, Trail, Bikeway/Pedestrian and/or Roadway Drainage design.
• Expertise in Civil 3D and/or MicroStation OpenRoads Designer (ORD).

Preferred Skills and Abilities

• A minimum of 10+ years of professional experience preferred.
• Prior people management experience is a plus.

Unique Benefits

Certified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial (AEG) companies in the world. With over 60 offices and countless projects around the globe, Woolpert makes a real difference at home and abroad. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:

• Diverse experiences: Work on meaningful projects that improve quality of life around the world.
• Freedom to work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
• Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
• Unlimited vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you.
• Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
• Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
• Paid sick time, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more: Choose the benefits that work best for you.

Level up your career with Woolpert. Apply today and join our team to help shape the future of tomorrow!

Why Woolpert?

Woolpert is looking for supportive, goal-oriented, and career-minded individuals who are, or are looking to become, industry leaders in their fields. We blend design excellence with innovative technology and geospatial applications to deliver exceptional value to our clients. When you join us, you'll join a team of experts who are passionate about their work and dedicated to building the next generation of industry leaders. Woolpert embraces progress and innovation, creating limitless opportunities for your career growth.