Senior Bridge Project Engineer

Overview

Based in Fishers, Indiana, this onsite senior role at GAI Consultants Inc focuses on leading complex bridge projects. You will integrate engineering economics and risk analysis, coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, and deliver robust, cost‑effective solutions while navigating permitting and regulatory requirements and engaging with stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply creativity, foresight, and mature judgment to anticipate and solve new problems.
• Set priorities and reconcile directions from competing interests to move projects forward.
• Lead projects with complex features, performing work directly or through others.
• Incorporate engineering economics and risk analysis into solutions for complex engineering problems.
• Integrate solutions across multiple specialty areas for cohesive outcomes.
• Demonstrate leadership and contribute to the development of standards and guidelines.
• Lead a project within your area of specialization in the practice.
• Develop design alternatives for complex projects that consider realistic requirements, constraints, community input, permitting, and regulatory constraints.
• Apply advanced concepts to solve intricate problems.
• Oversee large or multi-discipline project teams.
• Recommend personnel and funding required to carry out projects.
• Manage technical, legal, and financial aspects of entire projects and synthesize them into a complete project management plan.
• Define project objectives and requirements.
• Work under administrative supervision with assignments framed around broad objectives and limits.
• Implement staff development plans that strengthen technical, management, and leadership skills.
• Communicate effectively, including negotiation of critical issues and persuasive presentations.
• Demonstrate financial acumen and familiarity with legal issues related to engineering practice.
• Initiate and maintain extensive contacts with key engineers, officials, and organizations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience: 16+ years of engineering experience.
• Education: B.S. or M.S. in Engineering.
• Licensure: Professional Engineer (P.E.) license with reciprocity in multiple states.
• Driver’s License: Required.

Capabilities and Leadership

• Develops and applies standards and guidelines on a regular basis.
• Leads projects in their area of specialization and develops design alternatives for complex endeavors that account for community input, permitting, and regulatory constraints.
• Integrates advanced concepts to resolve complex problems.

Project and Management Focus

• Oversees large or multi-discipline project teams.
• Recommends personnel and funding to execute projects.
• Oversees technical, legal, and financial aspects of an entire project and integrates them into a comprehensive project management plan.
• Determines project objectives and requirements.

Communication and Stakeholder Engagement

• Exceptional oral and written communication skills, including negotiation of critical issues and persuasive communication.
• Demonstrates financial acumen and familiarity with legal issues related to engineering practice.
• Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with key engineers, officials, and external organizations and companies.