Technical Manager - Roadway Design (North Dakota)

The Opportunity

Ulteig is seeking a Technical Manager to help lead and support our North Dakota transportation design team
, a group focused on delivering quality transportation projects, growing technical talent, and strengthening client relationships across North Dakota and the broader transportation market.

This role is intended for a leader who enjoys staying connected to project delivery while also developing people. The right candidate will be a strong transportation professional, a practical problem solver, and a steady people leader who can help engineers grow through project work, coaching, clear expectations, and consistent support.

Our Technical Managers are expected to operate in a seller-doer leadership model
. That means staying engaged in billable project work, supporting client relationships, contributing to pursuits, and helping grow the business while also leading and developing the team. This is not a role where leadership happens separate from work. It happens through the work: by creating clarity, supporting quality, mentoring staff, helping project teams solve problems, and building trust with clients and internal partners.

The selected candidate will report to an Associate Director and work closely with project managers, task leads, subject matter experts, account managers, marketing, and shared services. This is a meaningful opportunity for someone who wants to help shape a team, strengthen delivery, support NDDOT and local agency transportation work, and make a real impact in Ulteig's Transportation business.

If you are energized by developing people, solving project challenges, building client trust, and helping a team grow in a sustainable way, this may be the right next step.

• Serve in a billable project leadership role by leading, supporting, and reviewing transportation design work through planning, design, proposal, and construction support phases.
• Provide technical guidance for transportation projects, including roadway design, corridor improvements, safety-focused improvements, multidisciplinary coordination, and public agency delivery.
• Support NDDOT and local agency projects by helping teams understand project requirements, design expectations, quality standards, review comments, schedule commitments, and client priorities.
• Review drawings, calculations, specifications, estimates, reports, and other project deliverables as appropriate.
• Assume responsible charge when needed and appropriate based on licensure, project role, and client requirements.
• Work closely with project managers and task leads to align scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality expectations, and delivery commitments.
• Help project teams make timely decisions, resolve technical issues, and deliver work that meets Ulteig standards and client expectations.
• Use project delivery as a platform for staff development by creating opportunities for engineers to learn, stretch, and build confidence through meaningful project roles.
• Model strong ownership of project outcomes, including quality, responsiveness, budget awareness, risk management, and follow-through.

• Lead, coach, and support transportation professionals as they work toward individual, team, department, and enterprise goals.
• Develop employees' technical, leadership, communication, and project delivery skills through regular one-on-ones, career development conversations, goal setting, and performance feedback.
• Create clarity around priorities, workload, expectations, and decisions so team members understand what needs to be done, why it matters, and how their work connects to the bigger picture.
• Foster a team environment where quality, accountability, training, continuous improvement, and practical innovation are part of the normal way the team operates.
• Support a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace where employees can ask questions, raise concerns, learn from mistakes, and contribute fully.
• Partner with project managers and other leaders to balance workload, support utilization goals, and align the right people with the right project opportunities.
• Identify and develop future technical and project leaders by helping team members gain experience, exposure, and confidence over time.

• Support Ulteig's seller-doer model by helping maintain and grow client relationships through responsive delivery, technical credibility, and proactive communication.
• Build trust with NDDOT, local agencies, and internal client-facing leaders by helping deliver high-quality work and staying engaged in client needs, project risks, and upcoming opportunities.
• Participate in pursuit and proposal efforts by contributing to technical approaches, staffing strategies, project examples, risk identification, quality review planning, and NDDOT-specific delivery considerations.
• Partner with account managers, project managers, marketing, and…