Senior Project Engineer, Roadway Drainage - Military Veterans
at Michael Baker International
TRANSPORTATION PRACTICE
Consistently ranked by Engineering News-Record as a Top 20 transportation firm, Michael Baker International offers clients an integrated team of professionals versed in all aspects of transportation planning, design, permitting, and construction management and inspection. In addition, Michael Baker International is a recognized leader in the practical aspects of operating and maintaining a safe and efficient transportation infrastructure.
DESCRIPTION
Michael Baker International is actively seeking a Senior Project Engineer with roadway drainage design, and roadway design experience to join our Transportation Team and Virginia Operations. The Senior Project Engineer will assist and lead roadway and drainage design from conceptualization through completion. This is an exciting career opportunity to be part of and contribute to a growing transportation design team with one of the preeminent national transportation engineering firms. This teams focus, and the successful candidates focus, will be representing Michael Baker as a premier engineering design team delivering innovative and sustainable transportation solutions to VDOT and local governments.
- Lead and coordinate the drainage design on highway, bridge, trail, or other transportation improvement projects.
- Participate as a member of a design team performing analysis, preparing designs, project plans, estimates, reports, specifications, etc. for state and local agency transportation improvement projects.
- Serve as a Task Lead, or Design Engineer on large-scale highway, bridge, and/or trail projects with multiple disciplines and sub-consultants
- Provide technical guidance and coordination of roadway drainage design related items
- Implement existing QA/QC procedures, participate in the further development and maintenance of the QA/QC program for transportation improvement projects
- Arrange, prepare, and conduct meetings both internally and externally
- Prepare scope, budget, and schedule for clients as well as internally
- Train and/or mentor junior staff
- Lead client engagement and marketing activities
- Other duties as assigned
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Civil Engineering from an ABET accredited university
- 15+ years' experience performing and managing roadway and drainage design
- Professional engineer (PE) registration in Virginia or ability to obtain within 6 months
- Experience managing and delivering, or serving as a task manager on VDOT and municipal projects
- Experience designing roadway drainage improvements, including WQ/WQ Facilities
- Demonstrated ability producing VDOT drainage plans, including providing plans, profiles, any needed details, calculations, estimates, etc.
- Experience designing roadway improvements, or working/coordinating with the roadway design team
- Demonstrated Ability using drainage software programs; CivilStorm, Culvert Master, Flowmaster, Geopak Drainage, HEC-Ras, Hy-8, Hydraulic Toolbox, PondPack, StormCADD
- Demonstrated Ability using MicroStation, OpenRoads, Geopak, and/or Corridor Modeling
- Experience mentoring engineering staff
- Experience on both conventional and design-build projects
- Experience preparing drainage calculations
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively on all levels, internal and external
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to conceptualize and think creatively
- Establish clear lines of communications within project team and with client for free flow of information
- Established relationships with regional clients and other subconsultants
- Demonstrated ability to properly address and manage change
- Demonstrated problem-solving, negotiations and decision-making skills
- Occasional to moderate travel may be required.
The salary range for this position is $94,000-$148,000. This will be dependent on the experience and expertise of the incoming candidate.
BENEFITS
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including:
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 401K Retirement Plan
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional and personal development
- Generous paid time off
- Commuter and wellness benefits
ABOUT US
Michael Baker International, a leading provider of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management, has been solving some of the world's most complex infrastructure challenges for more than 80 years with a legacy of expertise, experience, innovation and integrity.
Based in Pittsburgh and with nearly 100 offices nationwide, we partner with clients on everything from roads, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, and airports, to water treatment plants, arctic oil pipelines, environmental restoration and specialized overseas construction. We serve as a trusted adviser to the communities we serve, making them safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more prosperous.
We provide visionary leadership in facilitating transformational change for our clients. Our work delivers differentiating innovations and dedicated experts who challenge the status quo and share a world of diverse experience and an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit. We deliver quality of life.
We Make a Difference.
Michael Baker International is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Michael Baker International provides equal employment opportunity for all persons, in all facets of employment. Michael Baker International maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified and all will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected status.
EEO is the Law. Applicants to and employees of Michael Baker International are protected under Federal law from discrimination.
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MICHAEL BAKER INTERNATIONAL EEO STATEMENT
Michael Baker International is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Michael Baker International provides equal employment opportunity for all persons, in all facets of employment. Michael Baker International maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified and all will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected status.
EEO is the Law. Applicants to and employees of Michael Baker International are protected under Federal law from discrimination.
Virginia Beach, VA
Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting has been partnering with communities since 1940 to solve their most complex infrastructure challenges with a legacy of expertise, experience, innovation and integrity.
Supported by more than 6,000 employees in 90 offices worldwide, we provide a full continuum of life-cycle engineering consulting, specialized global construction, base operations, security management, systems integration and intelligence solutions. Our clients include federal, state, and municipal governments; foreign allied governments; and a wide range of private development and other commercial partners.
When Michael Baker Jr. first established his engineering firm in 1940, he envisioned a company that would serve as a property surveyor or designer of roads, bridges, buildings and sewage systems, and also as a trusted, long-term partner with local communities and distant nations. His employees strove to transform communities, companies, states and even nations, adopting dual roles as both caring neighbors and innovative nation builders. Baker instilled in his employees the drive to deliver improved quality of life and the desire to make a difference.
Baker built a lasting legacy that today forms the foundation on which we continue to serve and grow. Today, we continue to leverage our collective expertise and experience to make the communities we serve better. We strive to make them safer, more accessible, more environmentally sustainable and more livable. We facilitate their transformation supported by differentiating innovation, technologies and dedicated employees. We are change agents, leading our partners around the world into the future.
Our greatest differentiator, though, is our employees who demonstrate a world-class ability to solve complex problems. That’s why we engage our people, educate and train them, develop their careers, and invest in their futures. We give them opportunities around the world to exercise and expand their skills and expertise. We reward innovation and collaboration that lead to the best solutions for our clients. As a company, We Make a Difference.
To most effectively serve our clients, Michael Baker International is organized into three distinct business units: Engineering & Consulting; Sallyport Global Holdings; and SC3, which are described below.
ENGINEERING, PLANNING AND CONSULTING
The Engineering, Planning and Consulting business unit encompasses the complete life-cycle of planning, environmental assessment, engineering design, construction management, and facilities maintenance for projects in more than 38 countries on five continents. We provide a full continuum of solutions for a broad range of markets, including highways, bridges, airports, rail and mass transit systems, domestic and overseas government and commercial facilities, water and wastewater infrastructure, energy infrastructure and urban planning and development.
Professional Services – As part of Engineering, Planning and Consulting, this business unit provides high-value, differentiated engineering and professional services around the globe, including specialized construction services, cost management support and engineering support.