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Project Engineer - Civil
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Collins is seeking a highly motivated Civil Project Engineer for our Design Group to play a key role on our team in Norwood, MA, office. The ideal candidate will have experience in highway/transportation focus who can bring creative problem-solving skills balanced with the ability to develop a strong design background. This position will have the ability to work on contracts with MassDOT, MBTA, RIDOT, or NHDOT, liaise with clients and government agencies, and participate on design teams. This role offers a great opportunity for a highly motivated, driven professional who is looking for career growth with a company pushing forward in the industry. We offer plenty of opportunities for growth, working with professionals who have decades of experience developing industry-defining techniques. The Civil Project Engineer performs higher level assignments designed to develop professional work knowledge and abilities, requiring application of standard and moderate engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria.
Typical Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepares and designs plans for site grading, drainage, paving, utilities, and roadways for public and private sector clients. Contributes significantly to projects of all sizes.
- Prepares hydrology, earthwork, and roadway plans and profile evaluations.
- Assists in collecting due diligence information and preparing concept site engineering plans.
- Contributes significantly to the preparation of engineering reports, plans, and specifications.
- Prepares submittals to State, Municipal, and other agencies.
- Applies judgement on design decisions and selects from standard engineering techniques and alternatives.
- Makes independent decisions within a general framework and work within agreed upon timelines and budgets.
- Keeps Project Engineer and Project Manager informed of workload and any changes in project scope or additional services.
- Interacts with other departments and offices in order to coordinate work.
- Is active in technical societies.
- Responsible for small to moderately difficult projects from inception to completion.
- Has some communication with clients.
- Is available to attend meetings or events outside of normal working hours.
- Directs and supervises the work of entry-level engineers, technicians, drafters and administrative staff.
- Actively observes and acts in an appropriate manner related to safety.
- Relocation is available
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Education and/or Experience:
- Engineer-In-Training (E.I.T.) or Professional Engineer (P.E.)
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from an accredited four-year university, plus appropriate continuing education and a minimum of 2 years of relevant highway, interchange, and roadway design experience.
- Familiarity with MassDOT guidelines and standards is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with the procedures and methodologies published in the major national guidelines (e.g., AASHTO & MUTCD).
- Hands-on design experience including all of the following: corridor or intersection modeling, construction details, note generation, plans production, quantity take-offs, and cost estimation.
- Working knowledge of transportation engineering, roadway design, multimodal and Complete Streets design, intersection planning and design, pedestrian and bicycle safety, and a general understanding of the project delivery process.
- Experience with drainage design, intersection control evaluations (ICE), road safety audits (RSAs) and other studies, multimodal studies, and roundabout peer reviews.
- Preferred project experience includes roadway reconstruction, roundabouts and other intersection types, shared-use paths, separated bike lanes, signing and striping plans, signal design plans, and construction traffic control plans
- Proficiency with at least one roadway design software including Autodesk Civil 3D Bentley OpenRoads, InRoads, or GEOPAK, AutoTURN, and cost estimating programs. Civil 3D experience is preferred but not required.
Physical Demands:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
- The employee is occasionally required to walk, sit, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- The employee may be required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- While in the field, the employee may be required to walk in rugged conditions, work in adverse weather conditions, work at night, and stand up to eight hours or more at a time.
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