Intermediate Civil Engineer- Transportation
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Role Overview
Join GHD's Civil Roads and Highways Team within the Design Delivery Organization.
Contribute to the design and delivery of transportation infrastructure projects throughout Ontario.
The role is described as based in the Whitby office, with candidates also considered in Mississauga, Toronto, Markham, Waterloo, or St. Catharines.
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Role overview
Join GHD's Civil Roads and Highways Team within the Design Delivery Organization.
Contribute to the design and delivery of transportation infrastructure projects throughout Ontario.
The role is described as based in the Whitby office, with candidates also considered in Mississauga, Toronto, Markham, Waterloo, or St. Catharines.
Responsibilities
- Develop civil and transportation designs for roadway, highway, transit, rail, multimodal corridor, grading, drainage, and municipal servicing projects.
- Prepare conceptual and detailed designs, drawings, plans, profiles, sections, quantities, and supporting documentation.
- Apply applicable codes, transportation guidance, Ontario standards, specifications, drawings, and client requirements.
- Prepare or support reports, technical memoranda, specifications, scopes, cost estimates, schedules, and contract documents.
- Coordinate designs, guide junior staff, review deliverables, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and project stakeholders.
- Interpret geotechnical, hydrological, survey, and other technical information needed to advance designs.
- Support Design-Bid-Build and Design-Build projects, project planning, schedule development, budget monitoring, and deliverable management.
- Contribute to quality programs, design standards, workflows, training materials, lessons learned, and continuous improvement.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering.
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in Ontario, or eligibility to obtain one.
- At least six years of experience in transportation infrastructure planning, design, and delivery.
- Strong capability in roadway design, grading and drainage, municipal servicing, and transportation engineering.
- Ability to develop engineering drawings and construction documentation and work within multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to coordinate design activities, guide junior staff, communicate effectively, and manage multiple assignments.
Preferred qualifications
- Proficiency with AutoCAD Civil 3D, OpenRoads Designer, or similar transportation design platforms.
- Familiarity with roadway corridor modelling, pipe network design, TAC guidance, MTO supplements, OPSS, and OPSDs.
- Experience with Bentley applications, digital design and modelling tools, contract preparation platforms, or BIM collaboration platforms.
- Experience delivering projects for MTO, Metrolinx, municipalities, regional governments, or transportation agencies.
- Exposure to highway, freeway, municipal roadway, transit, LRT, BRT, or multimodal corridor projects.
Salary
- The posted salary range is $73,025 to $123,375.
- The hiring range may vary by location and is determined by skills, experience, qualifications, and work location.
Workplace
- The role is based in an office, with the primary office identified as Whitby and additional Ontario locations listed for consideration.
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