Project Engineer: Civil or Transportation - Toole Design

Toole Design Group in Minneapolis, MN is looking to hire an experienced and talented full-time Project Engineer with either a civil or transportation focus. Do you have a strong background in civil engineering with final, detailed roadway/corridor design and site development experience or do you desire to be a part of a collaborative preliminary design process for multimodal transportation projects, but believe an auto-centric approach is outdated? Are you passionate about creating quality construction documents, safety and sustainability? Are you looking for the opportunity to work on challenging multimodal projects that make communities more livable? Would you like to work for a firm that is committed to the well-being of its employees? If so, please consider joining our Minneapolis team.

This engineering position with a focus on either civil roadway and active transportation design or traffic engineering and preliminary design, earns a competitive salary and great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, retirement, a health savings account (HSA), and a flexible spending account (FSA). We practice what we preach and ensure that our employees also have access to transportation by providing them with financial incentives to bike, walk, or use transit for a better quality of life.

About Toole Design

Toole Design is the leading engineering, planning, and landscape architecture firm specializing in multimodal transportation. Since our start in 2003 as a single office in Maryland, we have expanded throughout the United States and Canada. Our talented team of planners, landscape architects and engineers are committed to delivering quality work that meets the needs of all people, regardless of age, ability, race or gender. We have been named a "best firm to work for" and have one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry.

Every project our employees deliver directly and positively affects our communities. We are industry-leading experts, and we work hard to encourage a collaborative and team-oriented environment.

A Day in the Life of a Project Engineer

You are at the forefront of brainstorming creative solutions for challenging projects. If you are on the civil design track, you'll support an interdisciplinary team to deliver multimodal transportation infrastructure in a wide range of contexts from roadway reconstructions and streetscapes in highly urban settings to signature trail projects in suburban and rural areas that highlight and enhance the natural environment. You use programs such as AutoCAD and/or MicroStation in order to fulfill production work on your projects. You will manage tasks and small projects through concept development, design review, bid package development, permitting, and construction management. You will help develop construction documents; and work with your team to ensure that our projects are consistently of the highest quality.

If you're on the transportation design track, you'll help create signing and pavement marking plans, maintenance of traffic, and traffic signal plans for roadway projects and streetscapes in urban settings. You will use programs such as Synchro, Highway Capacity Software, MicroStation, and AutoCAD to fulfill production work on your projects. You'll use state of the art tools and practices to help create sustainable multimodal transportation networks. You'll also have the opportunity to work on a wide spectrum of projects that inform your design work, including road diet analyses, multimodal traffic studies for new development, roundabout studies, trail/roadway intersection studies and designs, and parking studies and design guidance.

You will be at the table with clients and colleagues from a variety of disciplines, delivering project ideas from concept to construction. You take part in stakeholder and public outreach, developing feasibility studies and concept plans and prepare construction documents for innovative projects throughout the country. You participate in business development pursuits in your home region as well as across our Midwestern and North American offices. Your job can sometimes be challenging, but you get to work with a close-knit team that is passionate about the work and the communities that you serve!

Qualifications of a Project Engineer:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in civil engineering
• Professional Engineering license preferred
• 5+ years of experience
• A growing knowledge base in civil engineering (transportation focus)
• Gaining understanding of basic geometric design principles of roadways and industry roadway design standards
• Proficiency in one or more of the following: MicroStation (including OpenRoads), AutoCAD (including Civil 3D)
• Experience coordinating utility, right-of-way, street lighting, traffic signals, and landscape and hardscape layout
• Experience developing construction documents and cost estimates
• Interest in multimodal and active transportation design

It would be a plus if you had any of the following:

• Professional Engineering license(s) in other Midwestern states (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, and/or WI) or the ability to obtain Exposure to construction management
• Technical writing experience
• Experience analyzing and designing stormwater infrastructure
• Experience using stormwater design software such as HydroCAD or HydroFlow
• Traffic engineering and Signal design experience
• Specific knowledge of advanced multimodal roadway design and NACTO guidance
• Understanding of MUTCD standards at the state and federal level
• Experience working on transit projects
• Experience with bicycle, pedestrian, transit, and Safe Routes to School issues for all ages and abilities
• Experience in Complete Streets, bikeway, and crossing design
• Experience preparing transportation and local agency permit documents
• Experience developing conceptual designs for intersections and corridors
• Experience with operational analysis
• Experience working on preliminary and/or final design engineering projects for major existing and potential clients in our market area, such as MnDOT, Twin Cities area counties, Twin Cities metro area core and first ring suburban cities, Greater Minnesota regional center municipalities, and similar agencies in neighboring states

You'll be great here if:

• You enjoy participating in multi-disciplinary teams
• You are passionate about sustainability and the opportunity to work on challenging multimodal projects that make communities more livable
• You enjoy producing high-quality work products and seeing your projects get built
• You have strong communication skills, whether written, verbal, or graphical
• You can build relationships, bring enthusiasm to exciting projects, and are detail oriented with strong problem-solving skills

Work Schedule for a Project Engineer

This full-time position typically works a flexible schedule of 40 hours a week. We also provide employees with the flexibility and necessary equipment to work from home 2-3 days per week.

About our Minneapolis Office

Toole Design's Minneapolis office is conveniently located downtown at 212 3rd Avenue N, near to the Mississippi River and Cedar Lake bike trail systems and walking distance from Metro Blue, Green, Orange, and C line Stations. The office is easily accessed on foot, by bicycle, and via transit.

Located in the North Loop neighborhood in the historic Colonial Warehouse building, the office is inside the former headquarters of the city's streetcar company. Our windows overlook the Cedar Lake Trail which most of our staff use to bike to work each day, sometimes with a canine in tow (our building is dog-friendly). You will also find Minneapolis staff conducting "walking meetings" to the nearby Mississippi River, taking transit nearly anywhere in the region, or hopping on bike share to attend meetings. Our Minneapolis team is known for its collaborative engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers who are committed to a culture of innovation, excellence, and fun.

Ready to Join our Minneapolis Team? We understand your time is valuable, so we have a quick and easy application process. If you feel that you would be right for this engineering position, please fill out our application by clicking on the link on this page.

At Toole Design, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We have a collaborative culture where people of all backgrounds come together to share ideas and build better, more inclusive communities. We encourage those from underrepresented communities - women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between - to apply. Even if you don't think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

We're proud that about half of our managers are women and we are committed to achieving racial diversity in our leadership as well. Toole Design is a woman-owned business and an equal opportunity employer (EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer).

Individuals may request accommodations or assistance with the application process by contacting 301-927-1900 and asking for Human Resources or emailing HR@tooledesign.com.

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