
Highway Project Engineer
Binghamton, NYFull-time$75–95K/yrSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
The Highway Project Engineer works with clients and the highway team leader to design and detail plans for local, state, and county highways. The role spans design and construction stages, including roadway, drainage, traffic control, and signal design, as well as permitting and construction administration. The engineer prepares project documents and estimates, coordinates with team members, and supports projects through completion.
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About the Role
The Highway Engineer Position will work with our clients and the highway team leader to design and detail plans on a variety of Local, State and County highways. There will be opportunities to engage projects at all stages of design and construction including feasibility and preliminary design where design decisions and input are invaluable, roadway design including alignments and superelevation, grading, drainage design, work zone traffic control, traffic signals, signage and pavement markings, pavement cross sections, permitting, bidding, and construction administration. Our team offers a hardworking, dynamic environment, with a focus on balancing employee work-life balance and long-term individual growth. Opportunities for growth within our company are available based on performance, communication skills and teamwork capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
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Apply broad knowledge of engineering principles and practices.Evaluate, select and adapt standard techniques, procedures and criteria to solve technical issues.
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Prepare basic and advanced engineering designs and/or technical data for completion and accuracy.
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Provide advanced judgement and analysis techniques to prepare complete project documents including design reports and final plan sets
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Perform engineering quantity takeoffs and create construction costs estimates.
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Assist with proposal development for professional services.
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Perform field investigations/site visits as needed and prepare reports.
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Interpret and follow scopes of work, budgets, and schedules, completing projects within budget and on time.
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Analyze and interpret data, formulate and solve problems
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Coordinate with other team members to ensure project success.
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Design complete projects, systems, components or processes.
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Demonstrate knowledge of standards including MUTCD, AASHTO and NYSDOT.
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering required
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Minimum four (4) years’ experience in highway/roadway design, preferably with EIT, PE is a plus
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Strong knowledge and experience in local and state highway/roadway design, pavement design, drainage system evaluation, intersection design, turning lane warrants, maintenance/ protection of traffic plans, and NYSDOT specifications/ details.
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Knowledge of NYSDOT highway design manual and specifications
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Microstation and/or Open Roads Designer experience a must
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Traffic analysis and studies experience and signal design experience a plus
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Good technical writing and communication skills
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Knowledge in plan and specification preparation
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Self-motivated, organized, and open to learning new and innovative design procedures and methods
Benefits
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Paid Holidays
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PTO
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Dental, Health, and Vision Insurance
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FSA/ HSA
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Life Insurance
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401(K) plan
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Continuing Education Support
About HUNT
HUNT is a full-service A/E Firm with offices located in Albany, NY, Binghamton, NY, Horseheads, NY, Rochester, NY, Towanda, PA, and Williamsport, PA.
As a firm, our vision is to build vibrant communities by empowering creativity and partnership. We have accomplished this to date by being an entrusted partner to our clients/communities, providing full-service design that is innovative, practical and community focused. In addition, we offer a family friendly, flexible workplace that aims to encourage long, successful, sustainable careers through a variety of life stages. We are excited to welcome you to apply to this strong culture and hope that your values align with those of the firm, which will further enhance our culture even as we look toward targeted growth opportunities.
HUNT is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Department
Transportation Dept
Employment Type
Full-Time
Minimum Experience
Mid-level
Compensation
$75,000-$95,000 Per Year
How this job compares
Set against the 407 open Highway Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$75–95K/yr
- New York median$95–145K/yr32 salary ranges
- US median$87–152K/yr357 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $85K, is 29% below the New York median midpoint ($120K) — in the lowest quarter of Highway Engineer salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 37 open Highway Engineer jobs in New York and 407 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Fisher Associates12 open
- CDM Smith6 open
- Greenman-Pedersen, Inc.4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Highway Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 10 years, across 389 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 86 of the 407 open Highway Engineer jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 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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