Senior Subsurface Utility Engineering; SUE) Project Manager

Position: Senior Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) Project Manager

Celebrating 40 years of success and continual growth, ESP Associates is currently seeking an experienced Senior Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) Project Manager to join our team in Texas.

We’re proud to offer more than a place to build your career; we offer a team you can be part of. Our multidisciplinary environment brings together professionals across engineering, surveying, planning, environmental, geosciences, SUE, and CEI, with plenty of opportunities to connect beyond the workday. From team outings and volunteer events to company-wide step challenges, summer celebrations, and friendly competitions, there’s always an opportunity to get involved, get to know your coworkers, and have a little fun along the way!

As a Senior SUE Project Manager
, you will lead SUE project delivery, client coordination, staff development, budgeting, and business development for transportation, roadway, municipal, and infrastructure projects across Texas. Serving as a senior representative of ESP, you will manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client expectations while coordinating with utility owners, public agencies, consultants, contractors, and right-of-way stakeholders from planning through construction. This is an opportunity for an experienced SUE leader to further their career within a dynamic and growing Engineering, Surveying and Planning firm.

Responsibilities:

• Lead SUE project delivery for roadway, drainage, bridge, transit, municipal, and civil infrastructure projects throughout Texas.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, staffing plans, deliverables, and client expectations.
• Develop and manage project budgets, monitor financial performance, and coordinate corrective action when budget, schedule, or staffing risks arise.
• Support marketing and business development, including client relationship development, pursuit strategy, proposal input, scope development, level-of-effort estimates, and presentations.
• Train, mentor, and develop SUE staff in field procedures, documentation standards, safety awareness, client communication, and quality control.
• Review plans, utility records, as-builts, survey data, and SUE deliverables to identify potential utility conflicts and guide investigation strategies.
• Coordinate with utility owners, TxDOT, local governments, engineers, right-of-way staff, environmental teams, contractors, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate SUE and utility coordination meetings, document action items, maintain utility status reports, and track commitments through resolution.
• Oversee utility conflict analysis, investigation planning, test hole coordination, utility mapping, relocation support, cost estimates, reimbursement documentation, utility agreements, and permitting.
• Prepare, submit, track, and review RULIS applications and related documentation to support utility permitting, relocation, and project clearance.
• Monitor SUE production and utility relocation coordination during design and construction, escalating schedule or coordination issues as needed.
• Interpret and apply Texas utility accommodation requirements, TxDOT utility coordination procedures, right-of-way processes, and federal, state, and local requirements.
• Learn and apply SUE, utility coordination, and agency criteria for other states as ESP’s market grows.
• Prepare professional correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, exhibits, conflict matrices, and proposals.
• Support quality control of SUE deliverables and promote consistent standards across project teams.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in SUE, utility coordination, utility engineering, right-of-way, roadway design, construction coordination, or related infrastructure project delivery required.
• High school diploma or GED…