Civil Engineer - Transportation

Clark Dietz, Inc. is an employee owned, multi-discipline consulting engineering firm with offices in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Wisconsin. We are a recognized leader in transportation, civil, environmental, water/wastewater, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering. Our depth of talent across disciplines allows our staff the opportunity to collaborate and serve our clients with innovative and sustainable solutions.

We currently have an opportunity for a Transportation Engineer to join our Northern IL Transportation Team based out of our Chicago, IL office. The selected candidate will work as part of a team and contribute to the planning and design of transportation projects for a variety of state and local agencies in Illinois.

Primary Responsibilities

• Performs planning and design tasks for a variety of transportation improvement projects under the direction of the Sr. Engineers and Project Managers

• Applies local, state, and federal design guidelines and standards to implement transportation, traffic, and drainage related designs.

• Utilizes design guidelines from IDOT, FHWA, ITE, NACTO, AASHTO and MUTCD to develop multimodal solutions and evaluate alternatives.

• Develops specifications and quantity estimates for transportation or site-civil related projects.

• Develops horizontal/vertical and cross-sectional geometry for roadway and/or drainage projects.

• Creates plans and bid documents for project deliverables using a variety of design and modeling tools including: MicroStation, Open Roads Designer, ArcGIS, HCS, Synchro and Excel.

• Coordinates with public/private utilities to document physical location and analyze potential conflicts.

• Assists with field data collection, field survey and construction inspection/documentation as needed.

• Other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements

• B.S. degree in Civil Engineering; EIT or PE are preferred.

• 2+ years of roadway and/or drainage design experience for municipal, county or state agency clients (IDOT, Tollway) is desired.

• Ability to apply transportation engineering principals to projects and work independently to complete assigned project tasks while maintaining project schedules and budgets.

• Effective communication skills with the ability to draft technical memos, provide support for the creation of presentation and meeting materials, and work as part of a collaborative team.

• Experience with Open Roads Designer (ORD), MicroStation/Geopak, ArcGIS, HCS and Synchro is desired.

• Proficiency with MS Office is required.

• Valid drivers license with the ability to travel to project sites as needed.

As an employee-owned firm, Clark Dietz supports a flexible work/life balance and offers an excellent compensation and benefits package including staff bonus programs, comprehensive insurance benefits, annual education/conference budget, 401k, ESOP, and individual ownership opportunity. To learn more about our firm please visit