Mid-Level Transportation Engineer - AECOM

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AECOM’s Portland Transportation group is actively seeking a highly motivated experienced Civil Engineer with experience in railway, roadway, highway, and/or civil site design. This role will be part of an established engineering group and will work with a broad variety of transportation clients and projects throughout AECOM’s West Region. Projects may include:

• Roadway design.

• Freight and Transit track design.

• Transportation and multi-modal planning.

• Transit planning and design.

• Construction Management and Safety audits.

• In this role you will also work collaboratively with colleagues throughout AECOM’s West Region on rail/transit infrastructure projects for multiple state, local and federal government.

• Senior technical resource may serve as technical advisor for team

• Provides specialized technical input to studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise.

• Develops study and design procedures to facilitate high-quality cost-effective work by others.

• Participates in interdisciplinary review of project deliverables.

• Develops construction cost estimates and estimates of technical efforts for projects.

• Uses expertise in all steps of completing discipline component of PS&E package.

• Performs quality control review of design calculations or drawings.

• Prepares technical specification sections.

• Provides input to the development of engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements.

• Directly manage junior level staff.

Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS + 6 years of experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oregon Professional Engineers License or ability to obtain license within six months.

• Experience with designs and plans production for transportation/civil infrastructure projects including calculations.

• Prior experience designing railroads/roadways for transportation projects.

• Experience and ability to exercise initiative and independent judgment in the solution of work problems.

• Experience using InRoads and/or Civil 3D design software packages for the conceptual and detailed design of horizontal and vertical alignments, sections, and 3D modeling on rail and/or highway projects.

• Ability to communicate effectively; verbal and written.

• Design Build experience preferred.

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You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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