Senior Bridge Engineer

Industry

Transportation

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Your impact

If you are ready to bridge the gap between our world and our people, join Jacobs. Let's build for a brighter future together. Jacobs is much more than just a traditional engineering company. We consistently receive high rankings from Engineering News-Record (ENR) in many classifications, including the categories of Top Transportation Design Firms, Top Highway Design Firms, Top Bridge Design Firms, and our overall #1 ranking in the Top 500 Design Firms!

As a Senior Bridge Engineer, you will serve in a lead technical role on design projects within our Transportation Market. You will carry out and lead complex structural planning, analysis and design for all structural aspects of transportation projects, primarily bridges. You will have the opportunity to provide day-to-day leadership and technical expertise on some of the most high-profile and impactful transportation infrastructure projects in the country.

Your responsibilities will also include overseeing and ensuring that project quality, schedule, and budget requirements are met while simultaneously building trusted relationships with our teaming partners and clients. As a leader within our project delivery team, you will also serve as a key point of contact between our clients and our global team of bridge engineers.

This critical role enables Jacobs to provide our clients with the most appropriate and necessary level of knowledge and experience to meet any of their needs.

The candidate will possess knowledge and experience in:

• Planning, analysis, design, plan preparation, specification development, bridge inspections, and report writing.
• Must be comfortable being viewed as a technical expert in engineering analysis and design and have a proven background of technical leadership on structural transportation projects.
• Successful project management experience directing and coordinating the activities on transportation engineering projects to ensure that goals or objectives of these projects are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
• Establishing work plans and multi-disciplinary staffing for each phase of a project and arranging for recruitment or assignment of project personnel. Directing and coordinating the activities of Project Engineers, Engineers, and Technicians to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.
• Should be active in technical societies and be available to attend meetings or events outside normal working hours.
• Experience in a teamwork environment and leading a team of engineers is required.

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Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering
• Professional Engineer (PE) registration in Ohio or ability to obtain Ohio license within 6 months of employment
• Substantial years of progressive and demonstrated experience on a variety of bridge types (i.e. steel, prestressed concrete, curved, skewed, and long-span), to include analysis, design, and plan development of new and rehabilitation projects
• Considerable experience on large, multidisciplinary bridge design projects
• Previous experience with Design-Build (DB) projects
• Advanced working knowledge of MicroStation, Excel, MathCad, Structural Analysis and Design Software, (examples include SAP2000, CSi-Bridge, LPILE, MDX, Leap Bridge, LARSA)
• Experience mentoring engineering staff
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office Software

Ideally, you will also have:

• Master's Degree in Civil Engineering

Posted Salary Range: Minimum

160,000.00

Posted Salary Range: Upper

175,000.00

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan. Jacobs has an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, and caregiver leave. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.

The base salary range for this position is $160,000.00 to $175,000.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Job posted on May 13, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

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