Senior Transportation Engineer​/Project Manager

Our Omaha team is looking for a success-oriented Roadway Project Manager to work on everything from small intersections and corridor improvement projects to multimodal municipal roadway improvements.

If you’re motivated to deliver quality project work on‑time and on‑budget for major transportation clients including State DOTs, regional planning authorities and local agency and municipal clients, we want you on our team. As project manager and/or engineering task lead, you will actively participate in pre‑marketing and project pursuits, build and maintain client relationships, staff projects, manage design efforts, QA/QC, monitor projects, report progress and keep up to date with the industry by attending conferences and actively participating in industry organizations.

• Plan and manage all aspects of large multidisciplinary teams or medium sized projects with high degree technical complexity.
• Plan and prepare scope of services/fee proposals.
• Independently coordinate work of engineers and designers and balance staffing needs throughout entire project’s development.
• Establish client relations and be involved with marketing, including identifying potential opportunities and supporting pursuit and interview efforts.
• Support the growth and development of transportation engineers, EITs and designers through mentoring and project assignments.
• Conduct internal work sessions for design development and contract documents in conjunction with other disciplines.
• Plan and monitor workload needs throughout the entire project development to fully meet project needs.
• Serve as the primary client liaison to successfully complete a project to the client’s satisfaction and build effective client relationships.
• Proactively track financial aspects of projects, and coordinate and adjust work efforts with the team as needed to provide on‑schedule and on‑budget project delivery.
• Work with Business Group Manager, Project Controller and Department Manager for project reviews.
• Implement QA/QC procedures.
• Be open to opportunities to work with a variety of clients, projects and staff through HDR’s collaborative work sharing efforts across North America and beyond.

• Experience in marketing including preparing presentations and technical proposals.
• Experience in pursuit and development of alternative delivery projects.
• State DOT and local agency experience and relationships.
• Model-based digital delivery experience in Bentley (Microstation, Open Roads) or Autodesk (Autocad, Civil3D)
• Work cooperatively with other team members, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers.
• Minimum of 5 years of task lead/project management experience for highways and local roads projects.

• Bachelor's degree
• A minimum of 10 years experience in all aspects of roadway engineering design
• Requires professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position offered. Example:
  Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, communication skills and ability to work with various teams
• Project management skills desirable
• Experience should include urban and rural highway interchanges, intersection design, traffic management, transportation planning, site planning, preparation of concept alignments, geometrical layout and CAD base alignment plans
• Must have coordinated survey, grading, drainage and utilities and layout of various site items is a plus
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee‑owned culture is a must

Primary

Location:

United States-Nebraska-Omaha

Other Locations: United States-Nebraska-Lincoln

Industry: Transit

Schedule: Full‑time

Employee Status: Regular

Business Class: Highways

Job Posting Date: Jul 16, 2026

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.