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What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can build a career that is meaningful to you while helping shape the communities we all live in. For more than a century, we have partnered on some of the nation's largest and most complex infrastructure programs. With our continued growth, this is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

As an Asset Management Analyst III, you will be an integral member of a highly collaborative team responsible for delivering innovative, data-driven asset management solutions for our transportation partners, including state departments of transportation, airports, and transit agencies. You will perform technical analyses and modeling supporting the development of asset deterioration models, lifecycle planning analyses, scenario analyses, and trade-off analyses. You will be a skilled listener able to understand data and inspection standards, and business requirements that support strategic and informed decision-making across diverse transportation asset portfolios.

In today's rapidly evolving environment, where agencies increasingly rely on big data, analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, you will help clients navigate their data-rich environments with confidence. Your modeling and analysis abilities will be used to uncover patterns, highlight trends, and contribute to analytical frameworks that enhance asset performance, reliability, and long-term investment strategies. You will use your knowledge of statistics, model development, and data to perform lifecycle analyses and financial infrastructure investment analyses in support of the development of predictive and proactive decision-making tools to enhance our clients informed, timely, and efficient stewardship of their transportation

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary project teams and client stakeholders to define asset-related data, analysis and modeling strategies, and technology strategies that align with the needs of DOTs, airports, and rail/transit agencies.
• Support the development of federally compliant asset management plans, asset hierarchies, data dictionaries, RACI matrices, condition assessment standards, service-life analyses, and technical reports that guide infrastructure owners in the optimization of their investments.
• Perform research, data analysis, modeling, and risk-based assessment activities that help transportation agencies allocate resources effectively and improve system performance.
• Apply your technical expertise in data and statistical analyses and scenario modeling to strengthen innovation and elevate the quality of project deliverables.

As part of HNTB's Chicago-based Asset Management team, you will help deliver high-quality program and project-based outcomes across all transportation modes. Your contributions will shape practical, data-informed solutions that advance the mission of transportation agencies nationwide and position you for continued growth within enterprise-level initiatives.

What You'll Do:

• Leads the design and implementation of advanced data pipelines and architectures.
• Defines project scope, technical approach, and success metrics in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Develops scalable solutions using cloud-based tools and distributed computing platforms.
• Monitors pipeline performance and ensures reliability in production environments.
• Provides technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Collaborates with data scientists and analysts to optimize data workflows.
• Contributes to the development of best practices and reusable assets.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field and 5 years of related experience, or,
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field and 4 years of related experience, or,
• In lieu of education, 9 years of relevant experience.

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate within multidisciplinary teams.

• Technical proficiency with the use of statistics to support different data modeling and technical analysis approaches to support programmatic lifecycle analyses, trade-off analyses, and scenario modeling.

• Technical proficiency with data analysis and visualization tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, or R, with demonstrated ability to work across structured and unstructured datasets.

• Ability to understand and work with data within different datasets to ensure clean, high-quality data is used in your analysis.

• Experience building and maintaining data models related to asset hierarchies, data dictionaries, condition rating systems, or performance models for roadway, bridge, aviation, or transit assets.

• Familiarity, understanding, and ability to use or learn spatial analysis tools, including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and related geospatial extensions for asset inventory, condition analysis, and visualization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity or interest in learning asset management frameworks and standards, such as ISO 55000, AASHTO TAM Guide, FAA asset management guidance, or FTA transit asset management requirements.

• Understanding of how transportation agencies collect and manage data to support Enterprise Asset Management systems (EAM), including configuration, data integration, reporting, or analytics capabilities.

• Professional certifications (preferred but not required) such as:

• Professional certifications (preferred but not required) such as:

o IAM Certificate or Diploma in Asset Management

o ArcGIS technical certifications

o Project Management Professional (PMP)

o Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) or similar credentials

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Bellevue, WA (Seattle), Chicago, IL, Kansas City, MO, Seattle, WA (Downtown)

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The approximate pay range for the Greater Seattle, WA Metro Area is $110,390.23 - $172,661.65. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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The approximate pay range for Illinois is $105,590.66 - $165,154.61. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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The approximate nation wide pay range for this position is $95,991.51 - $187,675.71. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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