DEA’s Puget Sound Region is hiring a Transportation Roadway Project Engineer / Task Leader to support our Roads and Highways group while working on transportation related projects. A successful candidate will be a highly motivated self-starter assigned to work on multi-discipline projects as a project engineer (or task leader) and perform engineering calculations and design 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 supporting documentation. This position can be located in Seattle, Bellevue, Olympia or Tacoma, WA. 

Other duties include:

• Coordinate projects with supervisor, project managers, and firm staff.
• Ensure excellence in project execution for on-time, on-budget deliverables of quality that meet or exceed the industry’s standard of care
• Participate in business development activities
• Provide sketches and/or detailed layout information to design staff for incorporation into the construction drawings.
• Designs, prepares, or oversees the preparation of preliminary and final plans in Autodesk Civil 3D, and Microstation/InRoads software.
• Prepares and/or directs the design of roadway, traffic, or stormwater plans
• Preparation and modification of reports, specifications and cost estimates for project.
• Develop, track and modify project schedules.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
• Professional Engineer License in the United States
• Microstation/InRoads and/or Civil 3D design experience
• Minimum 7 years of civil engineering design related to transportation projects
• Project experience with local agencies or state DOTs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional Engineer in the State of Washington
• Experience, training and/or interest in project management
• Local experience in the Puget Sound Region
• Storm water collection and water quality treatment design experience
• Traffic analysis and design experience

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off (PTO)/Holiday Pay
• Health Savings and Lifestyle Spending Account with employer contribution
• 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 $110,000-$150,000 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.