Burns McDonnell’s Northwest Arkansas office is looking for an ambitious and talented Assistant Civil Engineer to join our Traffic Services team.At Burns McDonnell, you’ll be empowered to build not just projects, but your career. Our expansive service offerings mean stability, job security and incredible potential for growth. Move up to technical subject matter expert, project management or sales cycle, or explore opportunities across departments and groups. Establish and achieve evolving goals along your career journey — all at the same company.

As an Assistant Civil Engineer in our traffic group, you will work under the supervision of a licensed professional engineer (PE) and Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) to assist multidisciplinary project teams across the public and private sectors.

In this role you will be exposed to the full spectrum of traffic operations, traffic safety, and transportation projects including traffic forecasting and modeling, intersection and signal design, safety studies, ADA and trail design, and planning studies. You will have the opportunity to develop safe, efficient, and reliable transportation systems that will serve all modes of travel within our communities and the country for years to come. To be successful you will need to be capable and interested in learning a variety of new skills through both mentorship and independent review of multiple documents from national best practices to client-specific standards. You will have to think critically to apply those standards to the given project to develop exceptional quality construction plans and effectively communicate the methods and results through presentations, memos, and reports.