Sr Track Engineering Specialist jobs at Jacobs in United States, Boston

Your Impact: At Jacobs, we challenge what is currently accepted, so we can shape innovative and lasting solutions for tomorrow. If you’re interested in a rewarding career working with the industry’s best and most innovative engineers, then Jacobs is where you belong. The employee will work alongside our local team to perform the following tasks:

• Contribute and lead multi-discipline teams to deliver world-class projects.
• Effectively lead project tasks and project teams with diverse technical skill sets and geographic locations.
• Display strong communication and interpersonal skills and work in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Work to build a cooperative partnership between the client, and all stakeholders to ensure the overall success of the projects.
• Collaborate on and contribute to maintaining and building strong client relationships.
• Assist with business development and marketing efforts to help grow the business with both existing and new clients in KY.
• Drive health and safety in all aspects of project execution including field, office, and personal environments.

Thriving communities. Healthy cities. A brighter future. What we do is more than engineer roads, we work everyday to make the world better for everyone. If you want to join a company invested in you and your success, join us as a H
ighway Engineering Professional. By joining us, you'll have the chance to work on exciting and engaging large-scale infrastructure projects and utilize your highway/roadway design expertise to work on transportation related projects. You’ll work with some of the best Engineers and Project Managers in the business, as well as gain experience working directly with our clients. You will solve a range of straightforward problems; analyze possible solutions using standards procedures. You will receive a moderate level of guidance and direction performing a range of mainly straightforward assignments. We want you to be empowered to deliver the boldest solutions for everyday living. As a member of our transportation team, you’ll have the chance to work on a challenging project where we’ll depend on your expertise, intuition, and leadership with planning, directing, and monitoring all aspects of projects. You’ll be considered a key member of our team and be tasked with developing the civil design for transportation (highway/roadway/rail) related projects using local (State, County or City) or AASHTO standards at both conceptual and final design levels.

Using your experience, you’ll also do the following:

- Prepare roadway and highway designs using cad and modeling software.

- Develop plans, prepare technical specifications, develop quantities and estimates, complete peer reviews, and compile design documentation.

- Coordinate with design discipline leads.

Your impact

You’ll work alongside professional engineers and designers, gaining exposure to project coordination, relevant computer-assisted engineering software, data collection and so much more.

The Boston office of Jacobs seeks Co-op(s) to work in our Geotechnical Group from August 2025 – December 2025.

Work is checked in progress and upon completion.

Occasional tasks of a routine and repetitive nature may be required depending on the project requirements.

Performing of a variety of duties including inspections of exploratory and construction related activity, specifically,subsurface investigation and laboratory testing programs,taking field notes, drafting of construction plans, providing construction phase services (as-built drawing and RFI review, meeting minutes), performing calculations, assisting in other miscellaneous tasks such as organizing reports, and packaging submissions.

Work will involve a mix of both office-based and field-based assignments. Please note in your application or resume if you have any limitations to perform daytime or nighttime field work.

As a Civil Engineer and vital member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to design horizontal and vertical track alignments so we can shape lasting solutions for the future. You will perform civil design calculations, develop details, prepare sketches, impact analyses, and similar technical work as required. We’ll ask you to provide quantity calculations to prepare preconstruction cost estimates for rail/transit projects. Working alongside a team, you’ll work on projects from concept to completion.

As a Civil Engineer and vital member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to design horizontal and vertical track alignments so we can shape lasting solutions for the future. You will perform civil design calculations, develop details, prepare sketches, impact analyses, and similar technical work as required. We’ll ask you to provide quantity calculations to prepare preconstruction cost estimates for rail/transit projects. Working alongside a team, you’ll work on projects from concept to completion.

You’ll lead the delivery of projects in accordance with Jacobs procedures and practices to achieve satisfied clients. Also, we’ll have you provide design and/or checking and testing of track projects within areas of accredited competency.