Structural (Bridge) Principal Engineer/Team Lead

Dewberry has an opportunity for an experienced transportation leader to serve as a Structural (Bridge) Principal Engineer/Team Lead within our transportation engineering business unit in Richmond, Virginia. This position provides an excellent career opportunity for an enthusiastic and talented individual to collaborate with a team of professionals located throughout Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic region. This opportunity offers flexible work hours and the ability for part-time telework.

This individual will serve as a leader in our growing transportation design team in Richmond, and will coordinate with transportation leadership staff throughout Virginia. The selected person will be responsible for oversight of staff, conducting business development activities, and serve as a Project Manager/Design Manager on design-build, project specific, and on-call contacts. Typical projects involve private, locality, and state agency clients in the transportation market. The selected candidate will be involved in staff professional development, growth, retention and recruiting, hiring, mentoring, training, quality management, and project management practices.

The selected person will also be responsible for leading and mentoring design teams that perform structural calculations, preparing design and contract documents (including reports, engineer’s estimates, and construction specifications), reviewing shop drawings, and providing technical support during construction. Projects include design and design-build projects that encompass new and replacement bridges, bridge widenings, bridge rehabilitation, and other transportation related structures. Typical clients include local, state, and federal agencies as well as private owners in the transportation market.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

• Market Dewberry’s capabilities to clients surrounding the greater Richmond area.
• Conduct business development activities, proposal writing, and oversight.
• Supervise and provide direction and guidance to design staff in Richmond.
• Perform as Project Manager/Design Manager/Task Manager.
• Recruit, develop, mentor and train individual practitioners and teams and participate in personnel actions, hiring, and performance reviews.
• Collaborate and coordinate with offices across the mid-Atlantic region.
• Coordinate with clients, subconsultants, and design-build contractors.
• Lead structural engineering staff during pursuit and delivery of transportation projects.
• Plan, schedule, and coordinate staff/team to prepare engineering documents and activities for multiple structural projects.
• Manage project budgets and schedules

• BS in Civil Engineering with 15+ years of bridge engineering and project management in the transportation market.
• MS Degree in Structural Engineering preferred.
• Professional Engineer (PE) in VA required. Structural Engineer (SE) desired.
• Ability to obtain Professional Engineer licenses in other states as needed.
• Experience as a Project Manager/Task Manager with VDOT and other transportation clients.
• Desing-build and VDOT Statewide Structure and Bridge contract experience is a plus.
• Rail bridge design and highway bridge rehabilitation experience are desirable.
• Experience writing successful technical proposals and leading successful client interviews.
• Strong people skills, oral/written communications skills, and effective leadership skills.
• Local travel and a clean driving record are required.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters:  Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

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