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Designer Specialist

HNTB

Kansas City, MOFull-timeSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
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Location
Kansas City, MO
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Designer Specialist coordinates project execution and control within a discipline, managing scope, budget, and schedules from startup through closeout. The role handles design aspects, coordinates the design team, and serves as a technical liaison with clients. It delivers discipline scope elements, oversees work accuracy and completeness, uses 3D design tools to address conflicts, and assists with project management duties.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

3D Design ToolsBridge Experience

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Engineering Technology or Related Field + 10 YearsAssociate's in Drafting or Related Field + 12 Years14 Years Related Experience or in Lieu of Education

Full job description

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 coordinating project execution and control, in a given discipline area, to achieve continuity of purpose within scope, budget, and time schedules from initial start-up through project closeout. Also accountable for handling specific design aspects on projects appropriate to discipline field. Coordinate efforts of assigned design team to ensure completeness and accuracy of design effort. Serve as technical liaison with client on project efforts

What You'll Do:

  • Responsible for the delivery of project discipline scope elements such as reports, designs, specifications, and plans within budget and schedule.

  • Oversees completeness and accuracy of project team’s work.

  • Utilizes 3D design tools to analyze and mitigate conflicts in project design.

  • Assists with project management duties.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering Technology or related field and 10 years of relevant experience, or

  • Associate's degree in Drafting or related field and 12 years of relevant experience, or

  • In lieu of education, 14 years of related experience

What We Prefer:

  • Bridge experience

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Kansas City, MO, Lake Mary, FL

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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: Technical Group

ReqID: R-32211

How this job compares

Set against the 2,202 open Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$94–150K/yr762 salary ranges
  • US median$23/hr366 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 40 open Designer jobs in Missouri and 2,202 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Missouri
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Designer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,209 postings).
Education
470 of the 2,202 open Designer jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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