Alta is looking for a Civil Engineer to join and help grow our practice in Salt Lake City. This production-level position is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation and who is interested in growing their career as a transportation engineer professional.
In this role, you'll work on the design of a variety of sustainable transportation and non-motorized recreation projects. This may include concept-level design efforts such as Complete Streets or greenway corridor studies, to development of construction documents, cost estimates, and specifications. Specific project work may involve shared use path design and feasibility, on-street bikeway design, wayfinding signage design, streetscape design, and urban design. You will be challenged to think at a variety of scales from the systems-level down to specific sites or intersections. Engineers who enjoy working closely with other disciplines will appreciate Alta's multi-disciplinary approach that encourages collaboration with our planners, landscape architects, graphics designers, outreach specialists, and data analysts.
If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!
About Alta
Alta Planning Design is an active transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when cities and communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and getting them to where they need to go.
Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 26 years with 180 people on staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.
Summary Overview
This exempt role is responsible for supporting and maintaining client and partner relationships, ensuring successful project delivery, contributing to the growth of an office within his or her local market or region and leading and growing Alta's team members to become well-rounded and technically proficient contributors to Alta's success.
Position Priorities
An understanding and knowledge of Alta, its culture and services, the ability to collaborate across discipline boundaries and deliver solutions which meet client expectations in a cost-effective manner is required in order to successfully meet the requirements of this position.
The essential priorities of this exempt, salaried position are to:
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Performing a variety of CAD tasks, plan sheet development, design, graphics, and similar tasks with some oversight
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Developing cost estimates with some oversight.
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Active participation in site visits and/or outreach activities.
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Attendance of team meetings and various trainings.