Engineering Specialist BRT / Complete Streets Design Lead – West
STV is seeking an experienced civil roadway/traffic designer to support BRT, complete streets, and multimodal corridor projects as an Engineer Specialist III / Design Lead for the West Region, with a primary focus on Southern California and the Pacific Northwest.
This role is intended for a strong technical designer who can help lead day-to-day design delivery, coordinate multidisciplinary production, and support project management functions such as scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client coordination. The position is envisioned as a delivery-focused design role for complex BRT and complete streets assignments.
Key Responsibilities:
Design Delivery & Project Support
- Serve as the Engineer Specialist III and design lead for BRT, complete streets, and street improvement projects.
- Lead roadway, curbside, transit priority, station-area, bicycle, pedestrian, signal, and traffic-related design elements from concept development through final design.
- Support day-to-day project delivery, including task coordination, action item tracking, schedule updates, budget awareness, and client follow-up.
- Prepare and review plan sheets, design exhibits, technical memoranda, quantities, cost estimates, comment responses, and agency submittal packages.
- Coordinate internal discipline leads, subconsultants, and reviewers to keep design assumptions, deliverables, and decisions aligned.
- Identify design risks, scope gaps, constructability issues, and agency review comments that require project manager attention or client direction.
Client Coordination & Technical Leadership
- Support the PM in preparing for client meetings, documenting decisions, tracking follow-up items, and communicating design progress clearly.
- Participate in agency, stakeholder, and internal coordination meetings to explain design concepts, confirm assumptions, and resolve comments.
- Provide practical technical guidance on BRT running way treatments, bus stop and station-area design, curb management, roadway geometry, signal coordination, and active transportation improvements.
- Help develop scopes, fees, schedules, staffing plans, and level-of-effort assumptions for design tasks and future project phases.
- Mentor junior roadway and traffic design staff and support quality control of production work.
- Stay current on agency criteria, design standards, and best practices for BRT, complete streets, transit priority, and multimodal corridor implementation.
Qualifications & Experience:
Technical Design & Project Delivery Experience
- Civil roadway/traffic design professional with 6+ years of experience in BRT, complete streets, transit corridors, street improvement, and multimodal transportation projects.
- Strong command of geometric design, curb-and-gutter improvements, transit stop and station-area design, traffic operations, signal coordination, and active transportation facilities.
- Experience advancing projects through concept development, preliminary engineering, final design, bid support, and construction-phase services.
- Experience supporting project management functions, including scope control, schedule coordination, budget tracking, deliverable planning, meeting preparation, and comment resolution.
- Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and translate planning concepts into clear, constructible design packages.
- Proficiency in industry-standard engineering and design tools such as AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Synchro, and related production and review platforms.
- Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification or active progress toward professional licensure is preferred.
Client and Delivery Support
- Ability to build client confidence through responsive coordination, sound technical judgment, and consistent delivery.
- Experience contributing to proposals, scope development, fee estimates, project schedules, and staffing plans is preferred.
- Familiarity with Metro, Caltrans, WSDOT, local transit agencies, and West Coast municipalities is preferred.
- Understanding of public-sector design review, funding, procurement, and delivery processes for transit and roadway infrastructure projects is preferred.
This is an opportunity for a design-focused individual to help lead the technical delivery of BRT and complete streets projects and grow into broader project leadership through hands-on design coordination, client support, and multidisciplinary delivery.
Compensation Range:
$104,402.58 - $119,317.24
STV offers the following benefits • Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable) • Disability insurance • Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment • 401(k) Plan • Retirement Counseling • Employee Assistance Program • Paid Time Off • Paid Holidays • Back-Up Dependent Care • Parental Leave • Continuing Education Program • Professional Licensure and Society Memberships
STV is committed to paying all of its employees in a fair, equitable, and transparent manner. The listed pay range is STV’s good-faith salary estimate for this position. Please note that the final salary offered for this position may be outside of this published range based on many factors, including but not limited to geography, education, experience, and/or certifications.
Not sure this role is the perfect match? We encourage you to apply if STV’s work and values resonate with you. We know great candidates don’t always meet every qualification, and research shows women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they do. At STV, we believe strong talent comes from a wide range of backgrounds, and your skills and experience may align with this or another opportunity as we continue to grow.
