Senior Roadway/Highway Design Engineer - AECOM

**Company Description** **Work with Us. Change the World.** At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us. **Job Description** AECOM is actively seeking a creative, highly talented, and motivated **Senior Roadway/Highway Design Engineer to** enhance the capabilities of the AECOM Chicago, IL office. Responsibilities will include the development of technical concepts and designs, and the preparation of documents, specifications, and estimates. Projects may include roadways/highways, bridges, utilities, and misc. facilities related to transportation or infrastructure projects for a range of prospective clients, including state, county, and local agencies as well as private entities. **Job Responsibilities:** + Serves as a fully capable professional in the field with minimal direction. + Applies advanced knowledge to develop design procedures software and tools to facilitate high quality cost-effective technical project activities. + Develops estimates of technical efforts for projects. + Manages communication and collaboration with full design team and client. + Conducts interdisciplinary review of project deliverables and develops estimates of technical efforts for projects. + Oversees the development and implementation of technical approach and the completion of complex work which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity. + Initiates and creates project designs and plans with responsibility for preparing presentation and design drawings. + Prepares designs, calculations, sketches, diagrams, schematic drawings and working drawings. + Exercises considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment. + May oversee the work of less experienced designers. + Meets with clients and oversees all aspects of the project to ensure client satisfaction in project deliveries. **Qualifications** **Minimum Requirements:** + Bachelor's degree plus 8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education. **Preferred Requirements:** + Minimum of 4 years of experience managing transportation tasks and/or projects + Professional Engineer license + Familiarity with IDOT, ISTHA, and local agency specifications, policies, and procedures. + Bachelor's degree in engineering or construction management. + Computer proficiency in MS Word and Excel, CAD and Design software packages. + Ability to proactively communicate. + Established relationships with local clients. + Alternative delivery experience. **Additional Information** Offered compensation will be based on location and individual qualifications. The expected range is $130,000.00 - $180,000.00. **About AECOM** AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan. AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM. **Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity** 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. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. **ReqID:** J10121566 **Business Line:** Transportation **Business Group:** DCS **Strategic Business Unit:** West **Career Area:** Engineering **Work Location Model:** Hybrid **Legal Entity:** AECOM Technical Services Inc