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Senior Project Engineer

hntb

South Portland, USonsite$110k-$173k/yrPosted Jul 31, 2026
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About the role

What We're Looking For Our growing office is seeking a motivated individual to take an active role bridge and structural engineering projects across Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The ideal candidate will be excited to grow client relationships, increase their own individual knowledge, and support mentorship of a top caliber team – all while maintaining their ideal work/life balance. This position will offer opportunities to your career in a multitude of directions, as well as own and manage discipline-specific projects.

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

What You'll Do:

Uses senior-level technical expertise to consider broad range of engineering solutions.

Responsible for the discipline-specific planning, work distribution, and leadership and adherence to the schedule, and budget on complex or unusual engineering projects.

Assists in marketing responsibilities, including proposal generation.

Develops scope of work and level of effort and manages adherence to scope and budget on complex or unusual engineering projects within discipline.

Oversees completeness and accuracy of project team’s work within the technical discipline.

Provides technical guidance and mentoring to team members to achieve overall project objectives on complex or unusual engineering projects.

Coordinates technical aspects of the project with client counterpart and teaming partners at staff level for work within the discipline on complex or unusual engineering projects.

Leads discipline delivery on larger, multi-disciplinary projects. Works closely with other disciplines on multi-discipline projects.

Assists with coordination and planning of schedules, hours, and distribution of work for other disciplines on multi-discipline projects on complex or unusual engineering projects

Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 8 years of relevant experience, or

Master’s degree in Engineering and 7 years of relevant experience, or

PhD in Engineering and 6 years of relevant experience

What You'll Bring:

Shows excellent technical knowledge and quality work in multiple discipline projects.

Prioritizes tasks and displays accountability to the project team to deliver projects that are of high quality, on-time, and within budget and scope.

Demonstrates vision beyond the task at hand and anticipates risks and effects of their actions.

Understands and supports the objectives that are responsible for successful project delivery, recognizing how multiple disciplines influence project development

Applies an accrued knowledge base to innovate project efficiencies.

Uses refined technical skills to identify problems, develop appropriate solutions, and make good decisions, knowing what tools to use for effective solutions and optimal outcomes on projects.

What We Prefer:

Bridge design experience

Design experience for MaineDOT, NHDOT, and/or VTrans

Professional Engineer (PE) certification

Additional Information

Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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Locations: Bedford, NH, South Portland, ME (Portland) .

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. The approximate pay range for Maine is $110,384.86 - $172,653.25. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position based on all selected locations within the state at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state. .

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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:

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Compensation

This Software Engineer role pays $110k-$173k/yr. Within typical range for software engineer roles in United States.

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