HYBRID Deputy Design-Build Engineering Manager

With over 75 years in business and over 1,200 employees nationwide, we are a multi-disciplined, engineering-focused company that is organized around the philosophy that great people thrive in an environment that enables freedom and independence while also providing the necessary amount of accountability and support. We are an award winning Engineering Firm with a stellar reputation and support a wide variety of high profile projects throughout the US. Our talented team drives innovation helping up to stay a leader in our industry.

We offer a work environment that fosters innovation and the exchange of ideas without the limitations of hierarchy. We also acknowledge the need for a balanced integration of work and life and offer a competitive, well-rounded benefits package that includes 401k matching, flex time and paid family leave.

Deputy Design-Build Engineering Manager (Special Projects)

We are currently looking for a Design-Build Engineering Manager for our Seattle or Tacoma office. We are seeking a highly motivated person with a passion for engineering excellence and experience delivering complex fish passage, roadway and transportation improvements on design-build projects. This position will provide the opportunity to work with a variety of clients and contractors delivering diverse public works infrastructure projects including fish passages and major transportation improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Design Manager to coordinate with all complimentary disciplines (roadway, drainage, structural, traffic, public involvement and environmental), technical preparation and supervision of roadway and transit design tasks including quality reviews.
• Supports the management of the project, scope, schedule, design, and quality.
• Builds and maintains relationships with local and national contractors.
• Builds and maintains relationships with local teaming partners.
• Builds and maintains relationships with owners, specifically WSDOT and Sound Transit relative to design-build pursuits and projects.
• Supports the design-build proposal process, including technical work group participation and management, technical proposal preparation, alternative technical concepts, cost proposal, schedule, and coordination of these elements with the contractor’s proposal.
• Reviews plans, prepares or reviews technical specifications, contract documents and estimates.
• Leads, develops and reviews post design construction related tasks including; NDCs, FDCs, RFIs, PCO’s and manage design risk through construction.
• Assures the project team complies with the contract agreement as well as exercises rigid cost control to implement the approved design within established budget restraints
• Supports hiring, development, and mentoring of design-build project staff.

Example of Projects:

• Design-Build Transportation Infrastructure
• Road and Highway Design
• Fish Passage/Culvert Replacement Projects

Education/Requirements:

• B.S. Degree in Civil Engineering.
• Minimum of 8 years of Civil Design and Management experience with a PE in the State of Washington or ability to get reciprocity.
• 5+ Years of experience on large Department of Transportation (DOT) projects.
• 3+ Years working on Transportation Design-Build Projects.
• Proficient in MS Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.

**Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of construction means, methods and techniques
• Familiarity with WSDOT Standard Plans and Standard Specifications and Design Manual
• Experiencing delivering alternative project delivery procurements for WSDOT, Sound Transit or other similar agencies.
• Experience working with contractors who are active in the Puget Sound Region.
• DBIA Professional