What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Transportation Engineer position at Freese and Nichols?
Freese and Nichols is seeking Senior Transportation Engineer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. As Senior Transportation Engineer, you will serve as a senior advisor for roadway and bridge projects while helping expand our transportation presence across Oklahoma and the Central Plains. As Senior Transportation Engineer, you will build client relationships, shape regional growth strategy and provide senior technical leadership on complex transportation work.
What You’ll Do
At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always). Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.
We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service. For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need: developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.
Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at Benefits That Work for You), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico and Banner Elk, North Carolina. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.
Join our team of 1,300 employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Learn more about working here at Working at Freese and Nichols.
Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
What You’ll Do
- Serve as a senior advisor for roadway and bridge projects across Oklahoma and the Central Plains
- Help lead and expand bridge services in Oklahoma
- Build and strengthen client relationships across Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas
- Shape transportation growth strategy, including plans to expand work in Kansas and Arkansas
- Support pursuits, project delivery and technical decision-making for roadway and bridge assignments
- Serve as engineer of record or senior technical reviewer, as needed
- Lead complex studies and investigations, define work for others and review technical recommendations and conclusions
- Guide project teams, coordinate multidisciplinary efforts and help keep work aligned with schedule, budget and client needs
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- Professional Engineer registration
- 8 years of engineering experience, including experience making independent decisions on engineering problems and methods
- Experience with advanced engineering techniques and the modification and extension of engineering theories, precepts and practices
- Experience leading complex studies, technical work and project teams while working with clients, staff and regulatory agencies
- Experience in transportation engineering with roadway and bridge projects
- Experience serving as a senior technical advisor and supporting high-impact project delivery
- Experience building client relationships and helping grow transportation work in Oklahoma and the Central Plains
- Experience serving as engineer of record, senior reviewer or technical lead on complex assignments
- Experience mentoring engineers and coordinating work across multiple offices or disciplines
At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always). Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.
We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service. For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need: developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.
Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at Benefits That Work for You), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico and Banner Elk, North Carolina. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.
Join our team of 1,300 employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Learn more about working here at Working at Freese and Nichols.
Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.