Senior Transportation Engineering Manager

Hanson Values Integrity | Commitment | Quality | Relationships | Innovation

If you’re looking for a firm that encourages innovative thinking and challenges you every day, with an opportunity to learn and advance, a career at Hanson is right for you. The belief in sustainability within our company’s practices creates a focus on client success and partnerships that are important to our communities and our environment.

By joining our Chicago Loop, Lisle, or Peoria office in this role, you will:

• Step into a leading role on major Hanson projects in Illinois, such as the Tollway I-355/I-88 Interchange master planning project near Chicago and the IDOT I-80 Mississippi River Bridge replacement and interchange reconstruction project between Illinois and Iowa.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, workload coordination, and technical direction for an assigned group of engineers and technical staff.
• Serve as project engineer on complex transportation assignments, coordinating disciplines and subconsultants, managing design activities, supporting schedules, and reviewing team deliverables.
• Coach and mentor staff through regular feedback, career discussions, technical guidance, stretch assignments, and performance reviews.
• Forecast short- and long-term staffing needs by evaluating backlog, anticipated pursuits, resource availability, capability gaps, and hiring requirements.
• Develop roadway design solutions for complex interstate, tollway, urban arterial, highway, and local road improvement projects.
• Direct the development of construction plans and contract documents.
• Author technical documents such as engineering reports and special provisions.
• Guide roadway design teams using Open Roads Designer, supported by internal training resources and active user groups.
• Review complex technical calculations, reports, plans, and deliverables.
• Lead or support client relationships, pursuits, scopes, fees, and proposals.
• Provide occasional support for public involvement activities.
• Travel occasionally for client meetings and site visits.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

The following qualifications will help you succeed in this role:

• Illinois DOT/Tollway planning, design, plan production, and PS&E experience.
• Working knowledge of roadway design software such as Open Roads Designer.
• Familiarity with Open Roads Designer 3D modeling for roadway projects is a plus.
• Interest in continued learning, professional growth, and expanding technical and leadership skills.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, or formally leading engineers and technical staff.
• Strong technical judgment, problem-solving ability, organization, and attention to detail.
• Experience leading or supporting quality control reviews to ensure adherence with industry and client design standards.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering is required.
• Typically 10+ years of professional engineering experience.
• Minimum of six years of roadway design or transportation engineering experience, including work for IDOT and/or the Illinois Tollway.
• Illinois Professional Engineer license, or the ability to obtain an Illinois license through reciprocity within six months of hire.

Salary range: $150,000 - $190,000 per year. Compensation will be based on experience, technical qualifications, and overall fit for the role. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

Our focus on people means we offer a generous benefits program to help you create a solid foundation for health and security throughout your career, including:

• Competitive compensation
• Performance bonuses
• 401(k) with matching contribution
• Employee…