Parsons Corporation · 4 months ago
Senior Civil Engineer - Transportation Engineer
Parsons Corporation is one of the world’s largest transportation planning, engineering, and construction firms, seeking a highly experienced Senior Civil Engineer for their Irvine, California office. The role involves leading design tasks for transportation projects, mentoring junior staff, and collaborating with clients to finalize highway and road designs.
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Responsibilities
Must be able to utilize specifications to complete proposed designs, and able to collaborate with other engineers and clients to finalize and complete highway and road designs
Our Highway design engineer will design horizontal and vertical geometry for highway and road projects, and will analyze cross sections, calculate super-elevations, grading vertical alignments and horizontal impacts for roads and highways in California
Work as a subject matter expert in design and engineering of often complex road and highway interchanges, rampways, and loops
Lead and mentor junior engineers and less experienced staff on various transportation projects
Perform vertical clearance calculations, grading and permit/plan preparation, as well as use existing horizontal alignments to design new roadway alignments
Perform material quantity takeoffs, estimates and surveys
Reviews contractor supplied drawing submittals and assists in performing technical bid analyses
Prepares and issues specifications, data sheets, and other construction documents
Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 4-year Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering (or related field)
Candidates with 8 years or more of related road/highway design will be considered
Substantial Horizontal/vertical geometrics work experience
Must have high level of experience and competency with CAD, MicroStation, Open Roads or InRoads and other PC software packages typically associated with engineering
Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate both written and orally with other engineers and clients is required
Preferred
Master's degree is desirable
Experience designing highways, roads, intersections, calculating vertical clearances and drafting in CAD (either AutoCAD or MicroStation) is preferred
Experience with complex interchanges and rampway design
PE license in California or other states is highly preferred
Any experience with Caltrans projects is highly desirable
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Paid time off
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
401(k)
Life insurance
Flexible work schedules
Holidays
Company
Parsons Corporation
Parsons is an engineering, construction, technical and management services firm for national security and global infrastructure markets.
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Funding
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$700M2024-02-21Post Ipo Debt· $700M
2019-05-07IPO
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