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Job Title: Entry Level Highway Designer
Company Name: VHB
Location: Watertown, MA United States
Position Type: Full Time
Post Date: 02/26/2026
Expire Date: 03/28/2026
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Job Description
Entry Level Highway Designer



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ABOUT THE POSITION

VHB’s Watertown, MA office is looking for an Entry Level Highway Designer to join our team. Our team uses its skills and experience to improve our community’s highway and roadway infrastructure with an integrated, context-driven, and innovative project delivery mindset. Our clients include MassDOT Highway Division, local Cities and Towns, MBTA, Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR), other state public agencies, Colleges and Universities, and private developers.

 

 Responsibilities

  • Work within a team of design, engineering, and construction professionals in developing transportation design solutions for a multitude of projects
  • Roadway design
  • Drainage design
  • Utility design
  • Traffic control development
  • Preliminary and final design plans
  • Contract documents, including specifications
  • Engineer’s construction cost estimates and schedules
  • Construction phase services
  • Field inspection
  • Traditional and alternative design development and project delivery including design-build
  • Work on interdisciplinary design teams and collaborate and coordinate with engineers and contractors with specialties in bridge, traffic, environmental, utilities, and stormwater.

Skills and Attributes

  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Comfortable working independently as well as on a team
  • Detail oriented, self-motivated, and committed
  • Strong computer skills
  • Critical thinking and problem solving

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s of Science in Civil Engineering
  • 0-1 years of professional transportation engineering experience
  • EIT, or EIT in process, is a plus
  • Roadway design experience is a plus
  • AutoCAD Civil 3D experience is a strong plus

Our best estimate of the salary range for this position is $80,000-83,000. The final compensation will be based on a variety of factors including internal comparators, skills, education, training, credentials, experience, scope and complexity of role responsibilities and geographic location.

 

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We are VHB! We’re an inspired and innovative team of engineers, scientists, planners, and designers who partner with clients in the transportation, real estate, institutional, and energy industries, as well as federal, state, and local governments. Our work helps improve mobility, enhance communities, and contribute to economic vitality. We do this while balancing development and infrastructure needs with stewardship of our environment. 

 

Our people make us great! VHB provides a differentiating employee experience, which includes: 

  • Diverse and inclusive culture of collaboration and innovation
  • Opportunity to work on complex, transformational projects
  • Community and social responsibility as sustainable stewards
  • Focus on learning, development, and career growth
  • Best-in-class benefits, including flexible, hybrid workplace  

We are consistently rated one of the top AEC firms to work for across our 30+ offices on the East Coast. We’re growing, and we hope you’ll join us! 

 

VHB is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. Since our founding, we have intentionally fostered a culture of inclusion and belonging, supported by deep-rooted core values, one of which is diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

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Company Name: VHB
Website:https://careers-vhb.icims.com/jobs/5864/entry-level-highway-designer/job?mobile=true&in_iframe=1&in_frame=1
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