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Minneapolis, MN · HybridFull-time$11.41/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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GRAEF seeks a Director of Transportation Engineering to provide firmwide leadership for its transportation engineering community. The role advances technical standards and quality, strengthens collaboration across offices, develops future leaders, and partners with firm leadership on strategy, innovation, recruiting, and business development. The director also remains engaged in project leadership, management, design, technical oversight, quality reviews, and support for complex projects.
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Elevate Your Career with GRAEF - A Top Workplace
Are you passionate about technical excellence, developing people, and shaping the future of transportation engineering?
GRAEF is seeking a Director of Transportation Engineering to provide firmwide leadership for one of our largest technical communities. Reporting to the Chief Technical Officer, this role is responsible for advancing technical excellence, strengthening quality, promoting collaboration across offices, and developing the next generation of transportation engineering leaders.
This is an opportunity to influence the future of transportation engineering at GRAEF while remaining engaged in project work and collaborating with professionals across the firm.
What You'll Do
Lead Technical Excellence
Lead the development and implementation of firmwide technical standards, best practices, quality processes, and resources that support consistent, high-quality project delivery across GRAEF's Transportation Engineering Technical Community.
Build a Connected Transportation Engineering Practice
Promote collaboration and work-sharing across offices, connect projects with the right expertise, and strengthen firmwide technical capabilities.
Develop People and Future Leaders
Support onboarding, mentoring, technical training, and succession planning within GRAEF's Transportation Engineering Technical Community, helping transportation engineering staff grow professionally.
Shape the Future
Partner with firm leadership on technical strategy, innovation, recruiting, business planning, and business development, including supporting client relationships and project pursuits. Help guide investment in emerging technologies and capabilities that strengthen GRAEF's transportation engineering practice.
Engage with Projects
Remain actively engaged in project work through project leadership, management, design, and technical oversight. Provide expertise on complex and strategically important projects, support quality reviews, and help project teams improve delivery, solve challenges, and manage risk.
What You Bring:
Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering
Professional Engineer (PE) license
Minimum of 12 years of transportation engineering experience
Demonstrated technical and leadership experience
Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills
Passion for technical excellence, quality, and staff development
Why GRAEF?
At GRAEF, we do more than design infrastructure. We invest in our people, build strong relationships, and create opportunities for employees to grow, lead, and make a lasting impact on the communities we serve. If you're ready to help shape the future of transportation engineering at GRAEF, we'd love to hear from you.
We are proud to offer the following benefits:
Training, Mentorship, and Leadership Development Programs
A team atmosphere dedicated to open communication and collaboration
Flexible Hours/Hybrid Schedule
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
Embed yourself in the community by participating in numerous outside activities that GRAEF endorses and supports
Exciting office location
Free parking
Paid Parental Leave
Paid Time Off
Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Plans
Retirement Savings Plan
Tuition Reimbursement
Casual Dress
An Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer - Disabled/Vets
EOE-Disabled/Vets
Minimum Education Required
Bachelor Degree
Minimum Experience Required
12 - 20 years
Shift
First (Day)
Number of Openings
1
Public Transportation Accessible
Yes
Veterans Encouraged to Apply
No
Physical Required
Yes
Drug Test Required
Yes
Compensation
$11.41 / Hourly
Postal Code
55413
Job Type
Full Time
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
1014776
Job Benefits
Not specified
How this job compares
Set against the 474 open Engineering Director jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 10 open Engineering Director jobs in Minnesota and 474 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 12 years of experience; Engineering Director postings that state a minimum ask for 10 years at the median (361 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 218 of the 474 open Engineering Director jobs (46%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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