Senior Technician
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Job overview
The Senior Technician performs complex engineering and design assignments, plans projects of varied scope, and supports project management teams with objectives, requirements, and design approaches. The role gathers engineering or operational data, contributes to project development from concept through design, and helps ensure technical accuracy and coordination across disciplines. It also supports project delivery through field investigations, calculations, project documentation, and process-improvement recommendations.
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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 performing non-routine and complex assignments at an advance proficiency level, involving responsibility for planning and conducting complete projects of varied scope. Assists the project management team in outlining objectives, requirements and design approaches. Responsible for gathering engineering or operational data from a variety of sources.
What You’ll Do:
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Responsible for verifying the accuracy of drawings, compatibility of work across disciplines and for checking detail and quantity calculations. Calculates design data, prepares layouts, detailed specifications, estimates, reports, etc.
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Assists in preparing engineering studies and evaluations involved in the development of projects from initial concept to the design stage, with the assistance from the project engineer/architect.
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Attends project and pre-construction meetings and provides input to ensure proper policies, procedures, and specifications are followed.
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Responsible for resolving technical design problems that may include performing field investigation or inspections, detailed design work and data.
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Performs general administrative assistance by maintaining complex project plans. May develop documentation, prepare project management report and monitors accomplishments as related to targeted goals.
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Makes recommendations regarding process improvement for project delivery at the office level.
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Calculates quantities and performs engineering related computations.
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Performs other duties as assigned.
What You’ll Need:
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Bachelor's degree in Engineering Technology or related field and 6 years of relevant experience, or
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Associate of Science in Drafting or Technical School or related and 8 years of relevant experience, or
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In lieu education, 10 years of relevant experience
What You'll Bring:
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Ability to work effectively and participate in working relationships with clients and sub-contractors.
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Proficient in CADD design software such as GIS, 3D, Highway or Railroad design, Building design and Graphic Imaging.
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Proficient in the terminology and symbols used in survey notes, plans, shop drawings, aerial photographs, and maps related to a specific Engineering sub-type.
What We Prefer:
- Knowledge of Bentley ORD and/or Autodesk Civil 3D.
Additional Information
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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Locations:
Des Moines, IA, Kansas City, MO, Overland Park, KS (Sprint Parkway)
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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-32205
How this job compares
Set against the 1,952 open Engineering Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$69–100K/yr429 salary ranges
- US median$32–46/hr792 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 15 open Engineering Technician jobs in Iowa and 1,952 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience — more than three in four Engineering Technician postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 1,509 postings).
- Education
- 35 of the 1,952 open Engineering Technician jobs (2%) 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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