Lead Engineer - Highways

JOB TITLE:  Lead Engineer

ROLE: 

Motivated and experienced Road Design Engineers who can utilise their strong technical and project management skills to deliver highways-related infrastructure projects. 

As a Senior member of the high performing team, you will be given the opportunity to lead project teams and contribute your expertise to world-class projects, developing technical designs and delivery models for various highway upgrades, rural roads and urban roads projects. 

This role will see you working with multi-disciplined engineers and designers in a fast-paced environment whilst supporting a strong pipeline of existing projects, ranging in size and scope, as well as working on several major pursuits in order to continue the projected growth of our business.

KEY COMPETENCY – Technical Skills

• Understanding of engineering standards (DMRB/AASHTO/Australian/Middle East), codes of practice, local authorities guidelines and offer new ideas to improve solutions and processes.
• Lead Functional teams or Projects.
• Able to author competent technical reports of acceptable technical and presentational quality.
• Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices.
• Develop broad technical competence and able to check work of all those in the project team.

KEY COMPETENCY – Soft Skills

• Minimum 10 years of proven highway design experience with software proficiency in Open Roads Designer or Civil3D.
• Proficient in AutoCAD or MicroStation, PDS Signs, PDS Lines, Auto Track, MS Word, and MS Excel.
• Working knowledge of CDE platform (Common Data Environment) i.e., ProjectWise, ACC or BIM360.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Technical competence in detailed highways geometry design using Civil 3D/Open Road Designer and able to independently deliver work and integrate with larger project team.
• Responsible to lead the multi-disciplinary project delivery and able to perform as design manager.
• Clear knowledge of work procedures, and ability to brief project team on them and responsible for completion of projects to time and cost.
• Assists in the leadership of functional teams or projects.
• Communicating with counterpart in lead office/Client and Coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams on project delivery.
• Able to realistically estimate pricing associated with projects within their area of expertise.
• Self-discipline and able to manage own daily work allocation as well as team members

REPORTING: Engineering Manager/Discipline Lead

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Here's what you'll need

QUALIFICATIONS:

BE Degree in Civil Engineering /Post-Graduation in Transportation/Highway Engineering

EXPERIENCE:

10+ years experience in highway engineering design