Transportation Engineer

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If you’re looking for a firm that encourages innovative thinking and challenges you every day, with an opportunity to learn and advance, a career at Hanson is right for you. The belief in sustainability within our company’s practices creates a focus on client success and partnerships that are important to our communities and our environment. If you’re looking for a firm that encourages innovative thinking and challenges you every day, with opportunities to learn and advance, a career at Hanson may be right for you.

Hanson Professional Services Inc. is seeking a full-time Transportation Engineer to join our growing team in Harlingen, Texas. This position combines roadway design and staff leadership with opportunities for client engagement across the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas.

A Day in the Life of a Transportation Engineer at Hanson

Design roadway, highway, intersection, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and multimodal improvements for public‑sector clients. Prepare plans, specifications, estimates, calculations, reports, quantities, and construction documents. Develop alignments, geometrics, safety features, pedestrian and bicycle accommodations, signing, pavement markings, drainage interfaces, utility coordination, and traffic control plans. Serve as a task lead or project engineer, coordinating scope, schedule, budget, quality, and multidisciplinary work. Use OpenRoads Designer and other roadway design tools, supported by Hanson’s technical resources and opportunities for continued learning. Mentor junior staff and support client meetings, public involvement, site visits, project pursuits, and construction services. Travel occasionally within the region.

Client Engagement and Business Development

Meet with clients in South Texas to understand needs and identify opportunities for Hanson. Support proposals, interviews, pursuit strategies, and industry events. Deliver responsive service that encourages repeat work and long‑term partnerships.

What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from an accredited program.
• 5+ years of roadway or transportation engineering experience.
• Texas Professional Engineer license.
• Experience preparing roadway plans, estimates, calculations, and construction documents.
• Experience in modifying specifications and preparation of special provisions.
• Strong communication, organization, teamwork, and problem‑solving skills.
• Valid driver’s license and willingness to travel regionally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience serving public‑sector clients in the Rio Grande Valley or South Texas.
• Proficiency with OpenRoads Designer, MicroStation, Civil 3D, or AutoCAD.
• Experience leading design tasks, coordinating staff, and managing portions of scope, schedule, and budget.
• Interest or experience in client development, proposals, interviews, mentoring, or professional organizations.
• TxDOT planning, design, PS&E, and standards experience.

Salary range: $100,000 – $135,000 per year. Compensation will be based on experience, technical qualifications, and overall alignment with the role.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Performance bonuses
• 401(k) with matching contribution
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Comprehensive health & well‑being plans
• Financial wellness plans
• Work‑life balance programs

Culture

• Monthly educational webinars
• Leadership training
• Lunch & learn development sessions
• 24/7 access to thousands of skill-building courses
• Mentorship opportunities
• Award‑winning internship program
• Employee recognition
• And so much more!

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EEO — EMPLOYER

We do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies/staffing firms. Resumes are only accepted from recruiters and agency/staffing firms if a signed agreement is in place at the inception of the recruiting effort and authorized for a specified position. Because our people set us apart. Hanson is a dynamic, employee‑owned consulting firm providing a full range of engineering, scientific and allied services throughout the U.S. With an innovative spirit and a drive to continuously improve, our people go the extra mile to give our clients top‑quality results. Those efforts have helped us maintain our status as one of the top firms in the engineering industry. We’re large enough to take on exciting, challenging projects and small enough to know and inspire each other along the way.