Job Details

Transportation Engineering Director

US-HI-Honolulu

Job ID: 2025-5872

Type: Regular Full-Time

# of Openings: 1

Category: Transportation Planning & Design

Honolulu

Overview

As a civil engineering transportation director, you'll be overseeing the planning, design, and maintenance of a public or private organization's transportation infrastructure programs, such as roads, bridges, and transit systems. You'll manage staff and budgets, develop capital improvement plans, ensure projects meet standards, collaborate with stakeholders, and handle business development and client relations.

Responsibilities

• Direct a team of engineers and technical staff, conducting performance evaluations, and managing budgets and departmental operations.
• Develop and implement long-term plans for transportation systems, including capital improvement plans.
• Oversee the design and delivery of complex transportation projects to ensure they are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Provide technical guidance and act as the expert on transportation engineering principles, traffic control, and public roadway regulations.
• Collaborate with external partners such as government agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, and community groups.
• Lead efforts to secure new projects, develop proposals, and negotiate contracts, especially in the private sector.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Civil or Structural Engineering.
• Minimum fifteen years of transportation engineering experience.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and Civil3D software.
• This hybrid job operates between an office environment and a field environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones and copy machines. May require occasional exposure to work environments that may include inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.
• While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee include frequent sitting, moving, standing, talking, hearing, and occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling. This job may occasionally require operating a company vehicle, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.