Transportation Focused Water Resources Senior Project Engineer, Team Lead
Virginia Beach, VAFull-time$110–199K/yrSeen 2mo agoMay have closed — not in the employer's listings (checked today)
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Job overview
HNTB seeks a transportation-focused water resources senior project engineer and team lead to deliver complex engineering projects. The role develops and reviews designs, calculations, reports, plans, and specifications; leads discipline delivery and coordinates with clients and other disciplines. It also includes mentoring and developing staff, managing project scope, schedules, and budgets, and supporting marketing and proposal generation.
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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.
This opportunity entails being responsible for the production and modification of design calculations, technical reports, engineering plans and specifications for assigned projects. Consults with the project manager to perform research, development, calculations, design and delivery. Applies engineering techniques, procedures and design criteria for complex and cross-discipline projects. Leverages technical knowledge and experience to address design related issues or concerns, working closely with the project manager through creative problem solving, interactions with clients and by completing tasks to meet the project schedule. Develops conceptual and detailed designs and calculations to support the project completion using current drawing and technical tools, programs and software. May mentor, train and review work of junior engineer staff and provide constructive feedback. As a member of the team, you will contribute to the successful project delivery for a diverse range of projects for HNTB’s clients. This position is a lead role to direct, mentor and train junior staff.
What You'll Do:
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Uses senior-level technical expertise to consider broad range of engineering solutions.
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Responsible for the discipline-specific planning, work distribution, and leadership and adherence to the schedule, and budget on complex or unusual engineering projects.
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Assists in marketing responsibilities, including proposal generation.
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Develops scope of work and level of effort and manages adherence to scope and budget on complex or unusual engineering projects within discipline.
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Oversees completeness and accuracy of project team’s work within the technical discipline.
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Provides technical guidance and mentoring to team members to achieve overall project objectives on complex or unusual engineering projects.
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Coordinates technical aspects of the project with client counterpart and teaming partners at staff level for work within the discipline on complex or unusual engineering projects.
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Leads discipline delivery on larger, multi-disciplinary projects. Works closely with other disciplines on multi-discipline projects.
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Assists with coordination and planning of schedules, hours, and distribution of work for other disciplines on multi-discipline projects on complex or unusual engineering projects.
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Recruits, hires, develops and retains staff, including development of plan for staff reporting, performance and compensation reviews, and succession. Coordinates schedules and approves timecards.
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Performs other duties as assigned.
What You'll Need:
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Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 8 years of relevant experience, or
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Master’s degree in Engineering and 7 years of relevant experience, or
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PhD in Engineering and 6 years of relevant experience
What You'll Bring:
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Shows excellent technical knowledge and quality work in multiple discipline projects.
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Prioritizes tasks and displays accountability to the project team to deliver projects that are of high quality, on-time, and within budget and scope.
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Demonstrates vision beyond the task at hand and anticipates risks and effects of their actions.
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Understands and supports the objectives that are responsible for successful project delivery, recognizing how multiple disciplines influence project development
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Applies an accrued knowledge base to innovate project efficiencies.
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Uses refined technical skills to identify problems, develop appropriate solutions, and make good decisions, knowing what tools to use for effective solutions and optimal outcomes on projects.
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Demonstrated knowledge and experience with VDOT drainage, stormwater management, and erosion and sediment control design.
What We Prefer:
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Master’s degree in Engineering
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10 years of relevant experience
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Professional Engineer (PE)
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Experience delivering municipality lead transportation and water resource projects
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Experience delivering federal site/civil and water resource projects
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VA DEQ Combined Administrator
Additional Information
Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards
Click here to learn more about Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Locations:
(Alexandria), Glen Allen, VA (Richmond), Virginia Beach, VA Arlington, VA
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The approximate pay range for Virginia is $110,384.86 - $198,551.24. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position based on all selected locations within the state 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 agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.
Job Type: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full time
Job Category: Engineering Group
ReqID: R-31082
How this job compares
Set against the 5,079 open Project Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$110–199K/yr
- Virginia median$94–130K/yr139 salary ranges
- US median$95–142K/yr2,654 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $154K, is 40% above the Virginia median midpoint ($111K) — in the top quarter of Project Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 172 open Project Engineer jobs in Virginia and 5,079 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- M. C. Dean20 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience; Project Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,963 postings).
- Education
- 3,123 of the 5,079 open Project Engineer jobs (61%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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