Principal Engineer - Civil/Roadway

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When it comes to what you want in your career, if you can imagine it, you can do it at Parsons. Imagine a career working with exceptional people sharing a common quest. Imagine a workplace where you can be yourself. Where you can thrive. Where you can find your next, right now. We’ve got what you’re looking for.

Job Description:

You’re a natural-born leader with an entrepreneurial spirit: adaptable, flexible, and enthusiastic

Your energy motivates your team to kick into action to get the most profitable result. We regard your flexible thinking – your ability to adjust and adapt to achieve a result – as the essence of creativity. You’re driven, focused, and a motivating force. You’re an experienced, creative, and compassionate leader.
 

Join a team of explorers seeking innovation

We always ask, “How can we improve this?” and we’re looking for like-minded managers. This is one business that’s not chained to the status quo. We stay ahead by keeping on top of trends, recognizing market gaps, and looking to fill those gaps in ways that give us an advantage. As a manager, your sense of exploration will guide your team to discover new ground. Our diverse, welcoming environment assures that all people are respected for who they are as well as what they contribute. Join us in our rewarding and profitable journey.
 

Why Parsons?

The Infrastructure Business Unit provides planning, design, program management, and construction management to a wide range of infrastructure clients, mainly in North America. We’re an industry leader in successfully delivering complex, challenging, and high-profile infrastructure projects across all project delivery models, including integrated delivery (public-private partnership, design-build, construction management at-risk) and traditional delivery.

Our culture encourages different viewpoints and supports new ideas to innovate while increasing efficiency. Parsons offers flexible work arrangements, including remote, hybrid, and 9 day/80 hour (every other Friday off) work arrangements. We also invest significantly in our people by offering an industry-leading retirement plan that includes a 401k match and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). As a company that is over 60% employee-owned, Parsons keeps a sharp focus on investing in our people.
 

This job can be based in any of our Texas offices and is eligible for any of our flexible work arrangements.

Specific Responsibilities

• Prepare, coordinate, and supervise engineering design for assigned projects.

• Coordinate overall backlog, schedules, budgets, and deadlines.

• Train and manage resources including staff workloads and career planning.

• Create a challenging professional environment of innovation, opportunity, development, and continuous improvement for the engineering team focused on staff retention and succession planning.

• Lead/support (as appropriate)  development of TxDOT traditional delivery portfolios in collaboration with the Office Leadership Team.

• Serve as PM and/or Discipline Lead on pursuits and opportunities with TxDOT and other clients. Support Alternative Technical Concept development for design/build proposals.

• Strategize and engage in hiring decisions to achieve organic growth. Identify and develop high-potential talent.

• Participate in strategizing, storyboarding, writing, and reviewing proposals – become an integral part of the team’s success.

• Participate in business development strategy meetings.

• Participate in proposal writing, client meetings, and client presentations.

• Engage and serve in leadership positions within industry organizations, with specific subcommittee involvement at relevant organizations.

• Seek opportunities to make presentations or write articles. Encourage others in the team to do the same.

• Maintain current knowledge of project pipeline for key clients.

• Help to build the practice by networking, attracting early career engineers, and by developing members of the team.

Preferred Experience and Education

• 4-year degree in Civil Engineering (or related field); Master’s degree in Civil Engineering is preferred.

• 10+ years or more of related work experience, preferably in TxDOT traditional delivery projects (Schematic/Env and/or PS&E).

• Professional Engineer (PE) registration in Texas is strongly preferred.

• Precertification in a minimum of 4 TxDOT categories is preferred.

• Experience interfacing with TxDOT is preferred.