Job Details

Freese and Nichols is seeking a Highway Services Leader in North Texas. As Highway Services Leader , you would provide strategic guidance and technical leadership for highway services across Texas. Our multidisciplinary firm will support you in this position with multiple established transportation groups, a national practice of transportation experts, a strong backlog of work, and an extensive network of client relationships. You would focus on expanding our transportation work across the DOT, municipal, and county markets in Texas by assisting with overall strategy, guiding teams on excellent quality work, developing staff, and growing client relationships.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support Texas-wide delivery of highway services through technical leadership and collaboration in schematic/environmental, PS&E, bridge, and CEI work
• Serve state DOT and transportation agencies by identifying needs and developing solutions through all phases of project planning, design, and construction
• Assist with transportation planning and project development for counties and municipalities, including bond programs, corridor development, and funding
• Serve as a senior advisor by providing mentorship, guidance, coaching, and technical expertise to transportation professionals across multiple projects.
• Assist with strategic planning of the firm's transportation market approach
• Maintain contact with key clients to understand upcoming needs, trends, and issues, and develop solutions to meet those needs
• Lead major projects as a senior project manager from the earliest pursuit stages through the entire project life cycle
• Perform high level quality control reviews in conjunction with project teams
• Coordinate across groups to innovatively deliver projects

• Bachelor's degree
• Texas Professional Engineer (PE) license
• Demonstrated experience in DOT-related work

At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always). Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.

We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service. For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need: developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.

Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.

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Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.