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Senior Technical Advisor
HNTBNew York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Jun 2025
💰 $293,182/yr($146,829/yr – $293,182/yr)
About the role
What We're Looking For
At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.The Senior Technical Advisor will be responsible for providing guidance and direction in the area of Rail Operations Modeling and Planning. This position supports the technical aspect of project development and delivery including proposal development, scope implementation and change management. Responsible for applying advanced modeling methods, techniques, and analyses to provide solutions, make recommendations and resolve issues. Ensures industry and HNTB standards are applied consistently and effectively across projects ranging in size and complexity. Independently applies knowledge and experience in partnership with internal project team members and external client counterparts. Serves as an advisor on complex projects to provide technical analysis of railroad and transit operations, leading to decisions regarding infrastructure improvements and construction staging.
What You'll Do:
- Performs independent technical reviews, makes recommendations, and provides technical guidance as requested on complex or unusual engineering projects. Provides direction to resolve technical issues as requested.
- Provides technical expertise and advice to project leadership, and mentoring/support to production staff.
- Assists in marketing responsibilities, including proposal generation on complex or unusual engineering projects within discipline.
- Coordinates technical aspects with client counterpart and teaming partners at local leadership level for work within and across disciplines on complex or unusual engineering projects.
- Develops and advises on technical consistency within and across disciplines on processes and projects.
- Ensures same standard and practices are being applied.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
What You'll Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 12 years of relevant experience, or
- Master’s degree in Engineering and 11 year of relevant experience, or
- PhD in Engineering and 10 years of relevant experience
What You'll Bring:
- Performs analysis of operations based on rail modeling to recommend infrastructure investments and support train control design and constructability.
- Provides direction to resolve technical issues as requested.
- Provides technical expertise and advice to project leadership, and mentoring/support to production staff.
- Assists in marketing responsibilities, including proposal generation on complex or unusual engineering rail projects.
- Coordinates technical aspects with client counterpart and teaming partners at local leadership level for work within and across disciplines on complex or unusual engineering projects.
- Develops and advises on technical consistency within and across disciplines on processes and projects.
- Ensures same standard and practices are being applied.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
What We Prefer:
- Master’s degree in planning or Engineering
- 20 years relevant experience in railroad and transit operations and planning
- American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification Experience in operations for a transit agency, railroad or oversight agency.
Additional Information
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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.#RV.
Locations:
New York, NY.
The approximate pay range for New York is $146,829.42 - $293,182.12. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state..
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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:
HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment
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