Arcadis is seeking a Senior Design Engineer, Transportation, to join our Mobility Advisory group in western Canada. We are looking for an experienced Transportation Design Engineer to help shape the ...
Arcadis is seeking a Senior Design Engineer, Transportation, to join our Mobility Advisory group in western Canada. We are looking for an experienced Transportation Design Engineer to help shape the ...
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What is a senior engineer?
Senior engineers develop and design software programs and applications, but are designated senior because they have more extensive knowledge and years of experience than other engineers on their team. As a senior engineer, you work closely with company managers to ensure the software is created to the required specifications and must troubleshoot issues with applications when they arise. Most senior engineers have mastered a specific set of programming languages, databases, and operating systems.
What is the difference between Senior Engineer vs Mechanical Engineer?
| Aspect | Senior Engineer | Mechanical Engineer |
|---|---|---|
| Required Credentials | Bachelor's degree in engineering; often a master's; professional engineering license (PE) preferred | Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering; PE license optional but advantageous |
| Work Environment | Design, development, project management; leadership roles | Design, analysis, testing, manufacturing |
| Industry Usage | Used across engineering sectors for experienced professionals | Entry to mid-level engineering roles in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace |
Senior Engineers typically have more experience, leadership responsibilities, and advanced credentials compared to Mechanical Engineers. While Mechanical Engineers focus on design and analysis, Senior Engineers often oversee projects and mentor teams, making them suitable for higher-level roles within engineering teams.
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8.5
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Job description
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Arcadis is seeking a Senior Design Engineer, Transportation, to join our Mobility Advisory group in western Canada. We are looking for an experienced Transportation Design Engineer to help shape the future of municipal roadway, active transportation, linear infrastructure, and transit projects across the Western Canada.
This role will offer the opportunity to lead meaningful, visible projects that improve communities and move people more safely and sustainably.
Working with a collaborative, multidisciplinary team, this role will apply deep municipal roadway design expertise to deliver technically robust, constructible solutions. Responsibilities span detailed calculations and model creation through drawing production, plans, section details, specifications, and engineering reports.
This team is a part of our Mobility Global Business Area. We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today's mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world's growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.
Role accountabilities:
In this role you will provide transportation engineering design and technical expertise with a clear focus on municipal roadway projects, taking responsibility for detailed calculations, model creation, and drawing production while developing plans, cross-sections, pavement and curb details, associated engineering reports, and contract specifications for a wide variety of infrastructure works.
You will prepare conceptual, preliminary, and detailed cost estimates and rigorously review project documents prior to issue to verify scope, presentation, and technical accuracy-ensuring compliance with municipal standards, constructability, and procurement readiness.
The role involves coordinating the delivery of technical designs to meet cost, schedule, and quality objectives by producing full design packages and working closely with other engineering disciplines and technical specialists to integrate roadway design with utilities, drainage, traffic control, and environmental requirements while meeting stakeholder and municipal criteria.
This position requires applying a working knowledge of stormwater analysis and design together with strong interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills; you will be task-oriented, committed to high-quality work and attention to detail, and able to work independently and effectively within diverse project teams to deliver reliable, constructible municipal roadway solutions.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's University Degree in Civil or Transportation Engineering
- P.Eng in Alberta or BC
- 8-15 years of municipal infrastructure and roadway design experience at increasing levels of responsibility
- Experience with integrating new civil infrastructure with existing infrastructure will be an asset
- Proficiency with AutoCAD and Civil 3D for design purposes is required
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
About Arcadis
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Our work with clients has a direct impact on people's lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet. We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients' most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.
Industry
Engineering professional services
Company size
10,000+ Employees
Headquarters location
Highlands Ranch, CO, US