EPR is Hiring - Transportation Engineer (3-12 Years Experience)
Join the EPR Team
EPR, P.C. (www.epr-pc.com) is seeking mid-career traffic/transportation engineer (EIT or PE) with a passion and skill for creating innovative studies and designs for a broad variety of project types in Virginia and mid-Atlantic. The position will work either from our Richmond or Charlottesville, Virginia office though, depending on qualifications, remote work from other Virginia locations is possible. Hybrid work is acceptable.
Who We Are
EPR is a twenty-person multidisciplinary Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) based in Virginia, known for its breadth of technical engineering and planning expertise in tackling challenging projects and delivering excellent work products to our clients. EPR primarily supports federal, state, regional, and local agencies, as well as the private sector, for transportation, land use, and community planning projects.
Who We Are Looking For
The ideal EPR employee is a team oriented self-starter with an interest in applying creative approaches and industry guidelines to plan and design transportation improvements. The position requires experience working on some combination of state and local transportation planning and design projects. The ideal candidate will also have experience in traffic modeling using various software platforms and with design of traffic signalization, signing and marking, lighting, MOT, sidewalks and minor roadway design. Key knowledge and experience that we are seeking for this position include:
- Traffic engineering analysis, safety studies, corridor studies, traffic impact studies
- Bicycle/pedestrian/multimodal planning and design
- Experience with civil engineering design, preferably including transportation/roads/traffic plans
- Design of projects using state DOT processes and guidelines
- Familiarity with CAD software such as AutoCAD and MicroStation
- Working knowledge of Adobe suite (InDesign/Illustrator)
- Working knowledge of GIS
- Experience with MPO planning including long range transportation plans, SS4A plans, corridor plans, and multimodal plans
- Experience managing complex engineering tasks and/or projects
Why EPR?
· You will learn and grow in your career: With EPR you will have extensive opportunities to work across a broad array of project types, increase your level of responsibility based on your abilities to support, lead, and manage multiple project efforts simultaneously. EPR encourages participation in educational activities including conferences, classes pertinent to the work that EPR performs, and participation with industry leadership organizations.
· Our culture is focused on teamwork and collaboration: EPR focuses on working as a team for the success of the client, your professional advancement, and the firm. We use a collaborative approach that draws on the power of group thinking and brings forth expertise and perspectives from the project team, while helping each other build technical and consulting skills.
· EPR’s backlog is very consistent and stable: EPR’s client base varies from federal, state, regional, and local public sector entities, as well as private sector interests. EPR holds an extensive list of prime contracts while also collaboratively working as a subconsultant to industry peer firms.
· EPR offers competitive compensation: As a smaller firm with minimal corporate structure and overhead, EPR is able to provide strong salaries and generous sharing of profit with our team members. Furthermore, fringe benefits include generous PTO (paid time off), three tiers of medical benefits, strongly encouraged continuing education and professional development opportunities, retirement account matching, a flexible work environment, and encourages cross training in a collaborative and very flexible family friendly environment.
If You Want to Join us in Charlottesville
While Richmond and all other parts of Virginia, with a hybrid work arrangement, is certainly acceptable, we offer the following overview of Charlottesville should that be of interest. Note that we will pay relocation costs. Charlottesville, Virginia, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains in central Virginia, has consistently been rated as one of the best places to live in the nation, with a world class university, cultural outlets, a young and highly educated workforce and a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem. The surrounding area offers stunning beauty, extraordinary sights, events and an inexhaustible list of things to do. There are also world class restaurants, wineries, breweries, distilleries, musical entertainment venues, historical sites, and outdoor adventures in the Blue Ridge Mountains and nearby waters.
Our school systems are highly ranked and offer excellent educational opportunities and innovative learning environments. And of course, the University of Virginia, with one of the top medical, law, and business schools nationally, is a major resource for both residents and businesses in the region.
Submit A Letter of Interest and Resume
Please send your cover letter and resume to w.wuensch@epr-pc.com. All letters of interest are held in confidence. Also feel free to reach out if you’d like to discuss specifics of the position, and to learn more about EPR. We welcome the opportunity to talk with you more about this opportunity.
EPR, P.C. ensures nondiscrimination in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact Lynette Wuensch at 804-647-7701.
