Engineering Manager, Transportation Design

Company: Woolpert, Inc.
Location: Cleveland
Posted on: April 2, 2025

Job Description:

OverviewThe Engineering Manager is the people manager for technical staff with a specialty in roadway and transportation design. They are responsible for staff work assignments, career growth, and day-to-day management of staff. In addition, they are still looked to for leading designs, breaking off work on projects, doing QAQC, as well as helping with proposals for new work. This position is a dual role requiring a specific personality and the desire to help staff achieve goals. The Team Lead will work across several project managers to properly staff projects and maintain a healthy work environment. The role is very collaborative, working between other transportation disciplines as well as across non-transportation disciplines. A successful Team Lead is able to balance being a transportation engineer with being a people manager and looks for both facets to grow and excel.Responsibilities

• Responsible for staff growth, goal setting, reviews, and day-to-day management.
• Hire new staff as needed for the team.
• Work with project managers to ensure projects are staffed correctly.
• Collaborate with project managers on proposals, scopes, and fees.
• Lead design of complex roadway and transportation projects that require creative solutions. Projects include roadway, bikeways, pedestrian facilities, roundabouts, trails, multi-modal transportation, or transportation planning.
• Direct engineering design tasks such as highway and street design, roadway alignments, roundabout design, roadway grading and modeling, curb ramp design, signing and pavement plans, maintenance of traffic, and storm drainage.
• Use local and federal roadway standards to prepare preliminary and final design documents, cost estimates, and bid documents.
• Perform detailed review of design plans and supporting documents.Qualifications
  • BS in Civil Engineering or related technical design field.
  • A minimum of 10+ years of professional experience preferred.
  • Must be a licensed PE.
  • Must work near an office where staff are located (Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland).
  • Prior people management experience is a plus.
  • Must be a leader and have the ability to lead a team consisting of a variety of experience levels and backgrounds.
  • Ability to work across disciplines to ensure project staffing or project completion.
  • If licensed in another state, the ability to obtain a license in Ohio.
  • Ability to lead design as well as allocate work to others.
  • Experience in Roadway, Highway, Trail, Bikeway/Pedestrian, and/or Roadway Drainage design.
  • Expertise in Civil 3D and/or MicroStation OpenRoads Designer (ORD).Woolpert, Inc. is a cutting-edge national architecture, engineering, and geospatial (AEG) firm delivering value to clients by blending engineering excellence with innovative technology and geospatial applications. Woolpert was recently certified as an Employer of Choice by Great Place to Work. We believe great companies are built from exceptional people and amazing clients.EOE#LI-KA1
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