Transportation Project Manager

Transportation Project Manager

Step into your new role

As a Transportation Project Manager, you will lead and manage complex transportation infrastructure projects, ensuring successful delivery through expert technical guidance, client management, and team leadership. Collaborating with a skilled team of engineers, designers, and construction professionals, you will provide innovative solutions and drive operational excellence. You will apply relevant design criteria, standards, and processes to deliver high-quality engineering tasks in the transportation and structural engineering field.

This hybrid role is available in our Sewickley, PA office, offering significant career growth opportunities for the right individuals.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Leadership:
Lead and manage the design of highway and transportation structures, such as bridges, culverts, and retaining walls, ensuring timely delivery, within budget, and exceeding client expectations.

Technical Direction:
Provide expert technical guidance to project teams, overseeing structural design efforts, including developing calculations, specifications, and plans, while ensuring compliance with all relevant standards and regulations.

Project Delivery:
Oversee project scheduling, cost management, and resource allocation, ensuring the successful completion of transportation infrastructure projects.

Client Relationship Management:
Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, fostering long-term partnerships and expanding our market share throughout Pennsylvania.

Team Leadership and Development:
Mentor and support the professional growth of junior engineers, guiding them in their technical and career development while ensuring the quality and accuracy of all deliverables.

Business Development:
Contribute to proposal presentations and scoping activities, identifying new business opportunities and expanding the range of services offered to clients.

Cross-disciplinary

Collaboration:

Coordinate with architects, bridge engineers, environmental professionals, water engineers, geotechnical experts, survey teams, and traffic engineers to complete multi-disciplinary project deliverables.

Thought Leadership:
Contribute to industry technical conferences, committees, and internal development programs. Serve as a design lead and technical advisor for junior engineers and CAD staff.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering (BSCE) from an ABET-accredited program.
• 10+ years of experience in structural or highway and transportation design.
• Registered Professional Engineer (PE) required.
• Proven experience leading design teams and managing complex projects.
• Ability to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and guide teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for effective client and team interactions.
• In-depth knowledge of Federal, State, and local jurisdiction permitting regulations.
• Proficiency in Micro Station and MS Office Suite.
• Valid driver's license with a safe driving record.

Following an offer, candidates will be required to satisfactorily complete employment reference checks, verification of professional licensure and/or educational credentials, a motor vehicle report (MVR), and a comprehensive background check.

Move Forward with Kleinfelder

Kleinfelder has been connecting great people to the best work since 1961. We are engineers, scientists, and construction professionals providing solutions that improve our clients' transportation, water, energy, and other private infrastructure. As a responsive, cross-disciplinary team of bright, curious, and innovative problem-solvers, we are dedicated to doing the right thing, every day, on every project from over 85 offices in the US, Canada, and Australia.

Connecting great people to the best work is our purpose – together, we deliver.

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