Roads and Streets Design Coordinator

At Arup, our innovative spirit drives us to express our ingenuity in unique ways - engineering, planning, designing, and consulting on many of the most renowned projects in the built environment. Our mission is to deliver technical excellence, innovation, and value to our clients by bringing together broad-minded individuals from a wide range of disciplines. We invest in research and create better solutions for clients worldwide.

Why Join Us:

As an employee-owned firm, our staff shares in the firm’s annual profit, providing a unique opportunity to benefit directly from the company’s success. We offer abundant opportunities for career development through continuous learning and mentorship, ensuring that our team members grow professionally. By joining Arup, you will be part of groundbreaking projects that push the boundaries of what’s possible in the built environment. Additionally, you will work in a company committed to sustainable development and digital innovation, making a tangible difference in the world.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Roads and Streets Design Coordinator to join Arup’s Civil team in Bogotá.

This role will be responsible for leading the planning, coordination, and management of multidisciplinary engineering design activities across major transportation and infrastructure projects. The successful candidate will work closely with clients, project managers, design teams, contractors, authorities and other stakeholders to ensure effective integration of technical disciplines and successful delivery of complex projects.

The role requires a combination of technical understanding, design management capability, stakeholder engagement and project delivery experience, with a particular focus on roads, highways, and transportation infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities:

• Act as Design Coordinator on a diverse range of transportation and infrastructure projects, ensuring effective coordination between technical disciplines, project stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Develop and implement design management strategies, design delivery plans, and coordination processes.
• Manage design programmes, deliverables, interfaces, dependencies and design risks throughout project delivery.
• Facilitate coordination between geometry, pavements, geotechnics, drainage, structures, tunnels, utilities, BIM, environmental and other specialist disciplines related to transport infrastructure projects.
• Lead technical workshops, design review meetings, and stakeholder coordination sessions.
• Support project managers in the management of scope, schedule, budget, risk, and resource planning.
• Coordinate the resolution of design issues, technical interfaces, and multidisciplinary project challenges.
• Foster collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence within multidisciplinary teams.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share, and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas.

You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Transport Engineering, Highway Engineering or a closely related discipline. A relevant postgraduate qualification is desirable.
• Professional experience in the design, design management, coordination or delivery of major road, highway, urban mobility or transportation infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary design teams on large and complex infrastructure projects.
• Experience coordinating multiple technical disciplines and stakeholders throughout project development and delivery.
• Experience working with public agencies, concessionaires, contractors, or consulting firms.
• Strong understanding of engineering project delivery processes, design management methodologies, and risk management principles.
• Knowledge of design programmes, change management, quality systems, and multidisciplinary coordination processes.
• Experience supporting infrastructure procurement and construction delivery activities is desirable.
• Experience with BIM-enabled project delivery and collaborative digital environments is desirable.
• Experience with detailed design and Issue for Construction documentation in contractor, concessionaire, owner, design consultant or client-side delivery environments is desirable.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Professional working proficiency in Spanish.
• Professional working proficiency in English is desirable.
• Eligibility to practice engineering in Colombia, including the applicable professional registration, where required.

What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognizes the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

Benefits at Work

At Arup, we have a comprehensive and valuable benefits program that works for our employees and their families while keeping costs low. These benefits provide health and welfare security for you as well as paid time off for rest and renewal. Our Global Profit Share Plan (paid bi-annually) provides an opportunity for you to share in the success of the Firm.

Flexible Working

We believe that flexible arrangements create a more inclusive way of working that supports our diversity and the wellbeing of our people. Options for alternative schedules and the ability to work outside of the office for a portion of your workweek are available.

Bogotá, Colombia Hiring Range –

The good faith base salary hiring range for this job if performed in Bogotá is COP $163,357,500 to COP $186,000,000 per year. This range is commensurate with experience, educational background, and skill level. Benefits are not included in the base salary. Please note hiring ranges for candidates performing work outside of Bogotá will differ.

Different People, Shared Values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.

Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at .

Arup is an equal opportunity employer . All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, spouse of a protected veteran, or disability.

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