Posted 1mo ago

Highways Senior Project Engineer

@ Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson
Herndon, Virginia, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Responsibilities:leading design, mentoring engineers, coordinating tasks
Requirements Summary:Senior project engineer with leadership in engineering design, mentoring engineers, and coordinating complex projects.
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Job Description

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals, providing a full range of multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT is currently ranked #50 on Engineering News-Record’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

Position summary: Responsible for leading, overseeing, or performing engineering design using advanced knowledge of general engineering principles and practices to interpret, organize, execute, and coordinate assignments with limited supervision. Acts as a technical advisor and mentor to less experienced engineers. 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

  • Lead the design for multiple concurrent projects and tasks for your discipline.
  • Assist Project Manager with consultative services to the client by understanding client requirements, recommendations, and solutions to enhance client experience.
  • Attends client meetings or interviews in support of project manager.
  • Plan, schedule, conduct or coordinate detailed phases of the engineering work in a part of a major project or in a total project of moderate scope.
  • Design projects using advanced discipline knowledge, client specifications and guidelines using design software and drawing tools.
  • Develop solutions to complex problems and share best practices/lessons learned on a wide scale (company, client, or industry)
  • Defining parameters, reviewing, and presenting alternative studies based on experience and advanced engineering knowledge.
  • Prepare or lead the preparation of engineering documents, technical reports, memos, etc.
  • Evaluate and collaborate on discipline’s workflow and standard operating procedures to increase efficiency.
  • Perform and check design computations.
  • Quality review of project design in accordance with the Project Management Plan.
  • Provide cross disciplinary and constructability reviews on complex projects.
  • Providing input to project manager and section head with scope development, work hours for tasks, and project schedule creation for discipline. 
  • Manage and lead work to meet provided project schedule and budget relevant to discipline.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with team members and other disciplines to ensure project completion by the defined deadline and established quality.
  • Delegate project work to design engineers, coordinate project requirements, and perform quality reviews.
  • Mentor and coach on technical knowledge to advance their skill development and advise on project design.
  • Actively participating and contributing (presenting, publishing papers, etc.)  in industry organizations, publications, and/or conversations.

Nonessential Functions and Responsibilities

  • Perform other related duties as assigned