Roadway Project Manager

About Benesch

Benesch is a growing, multi‑disciplined planning, engineering, and professional services firm. We enhance infrastructure and communities across the country, creating spaces and providing connections that make a difference. We pride ourselves on being nimble enough to remain responsive to client needs yet large enough to offer exceptional bench strength. As a member of our team, you will draw from those resources when you need them and contribute your expertise when you have something to share.

Our Kansas Division is seeking to hire a Project Manager. This experienced position involves exciting, challenging, and complex assignments with opportunities for growth. The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills and experience designing roadways, highways, and interstates. On our team you will work on various infrastructure projects for State DOTs, local municipalities, and private clients, including roadways, driveways, sidewalks, greenways, parks, multimodal improvements, and bridge replacement projects.

You will regularly interact and coordinate designs with hydraulic, traffic, structures, environmental, and other disciplines to develop turnkey projects.

This position will have a hybrid work schedule and, when in the office, will work from any of our Kansas/Missouri offices, including Kansas City, KS;
Topeka, KS;
Wichita, KS;
Manhattan, KS;
Lenexa, KS; or Kansas City, MO.

• K-27 Corridor Improvements – A major corridor modernization project to reconstruct approximately nine miles of K‑27 on a new westward alignment, enhancing safety with a flatter profile, improved intersection sight distances, and paved shoulders between the Smoky Hill River and Zig‑Zag Road.
• US‑24 Corridor Management Plan – A comprehensive update to assess land use, access management, and transportation needs across an expanded corridor segment, guiding investment and safety improvements over the next 20 years.
• MoDOT Southwest District STIP Planning – Support planning and coordination of the Missouri Department of Transportation's Southwest District elements of the 2025–2029 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program, including scoping, design prioritization, and advancement of highway and bridge projects.
• Marlatt Avenue Improvements – A collaborative roadway enhancement project to widen and reconstruct Marlatt Avenue in Manhattan, KS, improving traffic flow, safety, and multimodal connectivity.
• KDOT K‑32 & 4th Street Improvements – A corridor enhancement focused on modernizing the K‑32 and 4th Street intersection and adjoining segments to improve traffic operations, multimodal connectivity, and safety.

• Serve as a project manager on transportation (state and municipal highway/roadway) projects.
• Manage project teams, including budgets and schedules.
• Mentor junior staff.
• Contribute to Kansas and regional strategic growth initiatives.
• Champion relationships with key clients, including DOT, County, and Municipal clients.
• Represent Benesch at industry and professional engagement events.
• Identify opportunities and lead strategic project pursuits.
• Lead and collaborate with multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Present findings through thorough written and verbal communications skills, including public speaking at information meetings, client meetings, and interviews.
• Participate in business development and marketing, including networking, preparation of SOQs, proposals, and contracts.
• Research local/state regulations as they pertain to transit agency planning and other requirements.
• Prepare and assist with grant applications.

• B.S. Degree in Engineering or related field and Professional Engineering License are required.
• Excellent communication, strong written, oral, and client‑relation skills; experience interacting with clients, agencies, and other project stakeholders.
• Experience in making presentations before elected officials and advisory boards, attending conferences, and participating in interviews.
• Strong organization and leadership skills.
• Prepare technical analysis within a variety of specialist areas such as transit…