Senior Highway Engineer
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The Senior Project Engineer is an experienced, collaborative member of HNTB’s highway design team, supporting major conventional and alternative delivery projects. The role provides advanced engineering, coordination, preconstruction, and program-level technical activities, working with planning, engineering, environmental, project controls, and traffic teams. It leads discipline delivery, oversees technical work, and supports project planning, scope, schedule, budget, and coordination.
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What We're Looking For
The Senior Project Engineer serves as an experienced and highly collaborative member of the highway design team, supporting the delivery of major conventional as well as alternative delivery projects. This role provides advanced engineering, coordination, , preconstruction, and program-level technical activities. This position works closely with planning, engineering, environmental, project controls and traffic teams to advance complex infrastructure projects, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and high-quality execution of technical, environmental, and contractual requirements.
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.
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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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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Applies experience to engage with diverse public clients.
What We Prefer:
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10 years of relevant experience.
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Professional Engineer (PE) license.
Additional Information
Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards
Click here to learn more about Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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Locations:
Bartow, FL, Tampa, 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: Engineering Group
ReqID: R-32252
How this job compares
Set against the 407 open Highway Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$87–152K/yr357 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 18 open Highway Engineer jobs in Florida and 407 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- CDM Smith288 open
- H&H18 open
- Fisher Associates13 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience — less than three in four Highway Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 10 years, across 389 postings).
- Education
- 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 31, 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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