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.
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📌 Roads and Streets Design Coordinator (Bogotá)
🏢 Arup
📍 Bogotá