Roadway Designer
The Colorado Transportation team is a vibrant group, focused on delivering innovative solutions for today’s civic challenges throughout the US West. Building on each other’s talents, we collaborate across all disciplines to execute projects of all sizes and complexities – from traffic, structural, environmental, water, power, digital technologies, and more - to make our communities safer, more resilient, and exciting places to live and work.
We encourage our team to push the limits in an innovative and energetic environment, focusing on developing our team’s skillsets while advancing individual careers. We routinely engage with experts throughout North America, making the most of today’s technology and being the first to create new ones. With over 30,000 employees worldwide and more than 725 in Colorado, you will have access to global expertise while working alongside our close-knit regional team.
We’re driving the future of transportation infrastructure. This is a place to apply your passion and grow with endless opportunities to help advance communities, today and tomorrow.
Your Opportunity
Join a multi-discipline transportation team with a culture focused on supporting individuals while delivering innovative and impactful transportation designs to the communities we call home and the places we like to play.
In this role, you will help with the development of conceptual and final design of roadways/highways, trails, intersections/interchanges, and multimodal improvements throughout our region using 3D based model design founded on solid engineering fundamentals. The projects are diverse in nature providing opportunity to build a solid foundation and find your passion while developing the technical expertise to support a strong career. You will focus on Colorado Department of Transportation and Colorado local agency improvements while also working on projects from New Mexico-to-California-to-Washington, all ranging from gravel pathways and trails in national parks to urban corridors and major projects such as high speed rail in California or even alternative delivery projects.
Stantec is seeking a talented, team-focused, and highly motivated entry level engineer. This position is a launch pad for a long-term career in the engineering and design industry. You will serve as an integral part of our delivery team from project concept design through final plans, specifications, and estimate (PSE) package production. This position will focus on building a diverse foundation of both engineering fundamentals and software to engage in engineering design and deliver creative project solutions to today’s civic challenges.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Design of streets, roadways, highways, intersections, interchanges, and multimodal facilities to meet local, state and federal requirements.
- Create detailed civil drawings and layouts using computer-aided design software including AutoCAD/Civil3D and MicroStation/OpenRoads Designer
- Formulate detailed understanding of industry design standards
- Support transportation and multimodal planning and design
- Support traffic engineering including signal and intersection design, signal timing, and traffic impact studies
- Assist engineers to produce plan sets for clients while adhering to discipline-specific CAD standards
- Prepare construction drawings to include roadway, traffic, drainage, utilities, and final plans and specifications
- Work within the project team to investigate and develop solution-oriented designs and produce constructable plans, as requested
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Proficiency in MicroStation and/or AutoCAD
- Familiarity with and/or ability to learn Civil 3D or OpenRoads Designer preferred
- Ability to effectively communicate, both with internal and external partners
- Ability, or ability to learn, to develop a complete and coherent plan set for construction
- Experience preparing final design plans and specifications, preferred
- Excellent problem solving, technical writing skills, and good understanding of discipline basics
- High level of proficiency with Microsoft suite of Office 365 products
Education and Experience
- 0-3+ years of related work experience in roadway/highway design or equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
- Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (emphasis in Transportation preferred) from an accredited program.
- Passed Fundamentals of Engineering Exam, preferred
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.