Senior Transportation Engineer Jobs in Reston, VA

Who You Are:

Precision Systems, Inc. is seeking a senior Highway/Roadway Design Engineer to join PSI full-time and lead roadway design and PS&E delivery for transportation infrastructure projects. This position will serve as a senior technical lead for highway, roadway, multimodal, corridor reconstruction, and task-order design assignments, with responsibility for advancing projects from planning and concept development through final PS&E and construction support.

The successful candidate will strengthen PSI's in-house roadway design capacity and support federal, state, and local transportation clients, including DDOT, VDOT, MDOT SHA, FHWA, and other public agencies. This role requires a hands-on design leader who can manage roadway geometry, civil/site design, multimodal facilities, drainage coordination, utility coordination, traffic and safety interfaces, ADA compliance, MOT considerations, quality control, and interdisciplinary PS&E integration.

Responsibilities:

• Lead roadway/highway design for corridor reconstruction, safety, multimodal, bridge-adjacent, trail, streetscape, and transportation infrastructure projects
• Prepare and oversee PS&E packages, including plans, specifications, estimates, quantities, design reports, and supporting technical documentation
• Develop roadway geometry, horizontal and vertical alignments, typical sections, cross sections, grading, curb ramp layouts, ADA improvements, multimodal facilities, maintenance of traffic concepts, and constructible design details
• Coordinate roadway design with drainage, stormwater management, traffic signals, lighting, signing and pavement marking, utilities, survey/SUE, geotechnical, structural, environmental, and landscape architecture disciplines
• Lead concept-to-final design progression, including 30%, 60%, 90%, and final PS&E submissions
• Support task order kickoff, scope confirmation, field reviews, design criteria development, schedule planning, and technical approach development
• Identify design risks early, including utility conflicts, field constraints, drainage impacts, ROW/access limitations, constructability issues, ADA compliance concerns, and stakeholder-driven design changes
• Provide technical direction to roadway engineers, designers, and CADD staff
• Perform senior technical review and QA/QC of roadway plans, calculations, details, quantities, and design documentation
• Support client coordination, agency reviews, comment resolution, and interdisciplinary design meetings
• Develop constructible, standards-compliant roadway solutions in constrained urban, parkway, Federal Lands, and environmentally sensitive settings
• Support proposal development, project interviews, staff resumes, project descriptions, and technical approach narratives for roadway/highway opportunities

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or related field
• Licensed Professional Engineer
• 8+ years of progressive roadway/highway design experience
• Demonstrated experience leading roadway or highway PS&E packages from concept through final design
• Strong knowledge of AASHTO, FHWA, MUTCD, ADA/PROWAG, and state/local transportation design standards
• Experience delivering roadway design for public-sector transportation clients such as FHWA, DDOT, VDOT, MDOT SHA, NPS, or comparable agencies
• Experience coordinating roadway design with drainage, SWM, traffic, utilities, geotechnical, structural, environmental, and survey disciplines
• Experience managing multiple concurrent assignments, task orders, or on-call/IDIQ projects
• Strong understanding of constructability, design staging, MOT considerations, and interdisciplinary plan integration
• Ability to lead technical staff, communicate with clients, resolve comments, and maintain schedule and quality across active assignments

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with bridge-adjacent roadway design, parkways, trails, access roads, or constrained settings
• Experience producing PS&E packages compliant with FHWA, AASHTO, DDOT, VDOT, MDOT SHA, or NPS requirements
• Experience with OpenRoads Designer, MicroStation, AutoCAD Civil 3D, ArcGIS, AutoTURN, Synchro, or related transportation design and analysis tools
• Experience serving as Highway Design Lead, Roadway Design Lead, Civil Lead, Engineer of Record, or task-order manager on multidisciplinary transportation projects
• Experience mentoring junior roadway engineers and designers
• Experience supporting small-business prime contracts, IDIQs, MATOCs, or on-call transportation programs

Ideal candidate profile

The ideal candidate is a senior roadway design professional who can operate as both a technical lead and a delivery partner. This person should be comfortable leading design production, managing interdisciplinary interfaces, reviewing PS&E packages, resolving agency comments, and helping PSI maintain strong in-house roadway delivery capability. The candidate should bring the technical credibility to lead complex highway/roadway assignments and the practical judgment to develop designs that are buildable, review-ready, and responsive to client priorities.