Practice Area: Transportation C&S Companies is seeking a Highway Designer to join our Orlando transportation team. This role supports the planning and design of roadway, intersection, and multimodal transportation improvements for public and private clients. The successful candidate will contribute to practical, responsive solutions that advance mobility, safety, constructability, and long-term community needs.
Responsibilities
- Prepare roadway design documents for transportation projects, including horizontal and vertical alignments, typical sections, roadway geometry, grading, drainage coordination, signing and pavement markings, and intersection improvements.
- Develop design plans, calculations, quantities, cost estimates, technical specifications, and supporting documentation under the direction of project engineers and project managers.
- Use three-dimensional modeling and design tools to support roadway design, coordination, visualization, and construction document production.
- Assist with the development of roadway rehabilitation, widening, reconstruction, complete streets, access management, and safety improvement projects.
- Coordinate design activities with in-house and external disciplines, including traffic engineering, drainage, utilities, environmental, survey, right-of-way, landscape architecture, and construction services.
- Participate in field reviews, data collection, design meetings, stakeholder coordination, and quality-control reviews.
- Apply applicable client, local, state, and federal design criteria and standards to project deliverables.
- Support the identification and resolution of design issues related to utilities, environmental conditions, constructability, project phasing, mobility, safety, budgets, and schedules.
- Contribute to clear, accurate, and complete construction documents that support successful bidding and construction.
- Maintain organized project files and communicate progress, needs, and technical issues to the project team.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, civil engineering technology, or a related field.
- Experience supporting roadway, highway, intersection, site-civil, or transportation design projects.
- Proficiency with FDOT ORD and AutoCAD software. Experience with roadway modeling tools is preferred.
- Familiarity with plan production, quantity development, engineering calculations, and construction document coordination.
- Working knowledge of roadway design fundamentals, including alignment, grading, drainage coordination, traffic control elements, signing, pavement markings, and pedestrian accommodations.
- Ability to interpret and apply agency design criteria, specifications, and standards.
- Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple assignments.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative approach to project delivery.
- Engineer Intern certification or progress toward professional engineering licensure is preferred.
What You Will Work On C&S transportation teams support projects ranging from small intersection improvements to major highway reconstruction. Our highway design services address project goals, community input, property and environmental impacts, utility coordination, mobility and safety improvements, budgets, and schedules. Transportation professionals work across disciplines to support highway and bridge design, traffic engineering, transportation planning, and multimodal improvements.
Learn about our comprehensive Benefits *Actual compensation may vary based on related work experience, geographical location and market conditions, education/training, certifications, and other credentials, as well as applicable knowledge and skills. WHO WE ARE: C&S Companies is a national planning, design, and construction firm with more than 600 employees and growing. For more than 50 years we have been delivering critical infrastructure design, planning and construction services in aviation, civil/site infrastructure, construction and program management, construction/design-build, energy, environmental, facilities, architecture, planning, sustainability, and transportation. We have offices throughout New York State, California, Florida, Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Washington, and Kentucky.
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