Transportation Project Manager - Highways and Roads

Transportation Project Manager – Highways and Roads

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Our Transportation Business Group in Kentucky / Tennessee is looking for career‑minded professionals to work as a key member of a highway / roadway design team for moderate to large projects and work independently on smaller projects. This position would lead a transportation team managing across multiple sectors including DOT, transit, aviation, ports/maritime, and CEI.

• Direct and coordinate work of single or multidiscipline teams throughout the project’s lifecycle (from development and initiation to close‑out)
• Responsible for all aspects of complex small to medium projects or routine large projects
• Produce and coordinate several small to medium projects concurrently
• Establish and maintain client relations, and be involved with marketing, contractual, design and production meetings
• Conduct work sessions for deliverable development in conjunction with other staff and stakeholders
• Coordinate staffing and workload through entire project life cycle, and ensure completion of deliverables on schedule
• Track financial aspects of projects, and coordinate and adjust work effort with team to ensure that work is completed within parameters of agreed‑to budget and schedule
• Work with the Accounting, Operational and Business leadership for periodic project reviews
• Implement QA/QC procedures
• Perform other duties as needed

• Minimum 10 years of experience in highway location and design
• Experience managing projects for DOT or Municipality
• Willingness to work full time on‑site at Client or Project Offices
• Preference given to candidates local to:
  Knoxville, Chattanooga, Memphis, Nashville
• Familiarity with Microstation, Open Roads, Geopak and/or Inroads, or similar

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• 7 years related experience
• A minimum 2 years project management experience
• Professional Engineer (PE) license
• MS Office and MS Project experience is required (Access experience would be a plus)
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Actively participate in an employee‑owned culture is a must

Location
:
Nashville, TN (United States – Tennessee – Nashville). Other locations:
Memphis, TN;
Knoxville, TN;
Chattanooga, TN;
Lexington, KY.

Schedule
:
Full‑time |
Employee Status
:
Regular |
Business Class
:
Highways |
Job Posted
:
Dec 8, 2025

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity. We are an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (). We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.