Project Manager - Traffic

What We're Looking For

HNTB is seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial traffic engineering leader who is eager to help build a growing team across Northern New England while leading impactful transportation projects throughout the region. In the near term, you'll lead a diverse portfolio of traffic engineering projects from our South Portland, ME, or Bedford, NH, offices. Working with clients such as MaineDOT, NHDOT, VTrans, and HNTB's oldest client, the Maine Turnpike Authority, you'll help deliver a wide range of services, from planning and traffic studies to traffic signal and ITS engineering, microsimulation, and real-time operational strategies.

In this role, you'll manage projects through their full lifecycle, from shaping proposals and negotiating contracts to delivering on HNTB's 4-for-4 performance promise: quality work, on time, on budget, and to the client's satisfaction. You'll collaborate with internal and external partners, solve complex transportation challenges, and ensure successful outcomes on projects that make a lasting impact. This role places you at the forefront of innovation, helping guide teams and clients toward smarter, safer, and more connected mobility solutions.

Beyond project delivery, you'll also play a key role in strengthening client relationships, recruiting and developing talent, expanding our market presence, and helping define the future of traffic engineering services across Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. As part of a nationally recognized transportation practice, you'll collaborate with regional and national leaders to deliver innovative solutions while helping grow HNTB's presence throughout Northern New England.

With more than a century of experience delivering some of the nation's most complex transportation infrastructure projects, HNTB offers the unique opportunity to combine the impact of building a growing regional practice with the resources, expertise, and stability of an established employee-owned firm.

• Responsible for development of the project scope and fee quotation and assists in the preparation of technical proposals and contracts in accordance with HNTB's Sophisticated Contracting Approach (SCA).
• Serves as the primary client liaison and manages the project team to deliver the scope, schedule, and budgets to completion and to the client’s satisfaction.
• Assists with client project scoping and contract negotiations.
• Performs technical discipline tasks including analysis, reports, design, specification, and production for assigned projects.
• Implements the firm’s project delivery plan using HNTB's Sophisticated Delivery Approach (SDA) on each project.
• Leads the development and the execution of the project management plan.
• Supervises and mentors team to overall project objectives.
• Performs coordination with managers on project staffing, including, but not limited to; recruitment, development, retention, and succession of project staff; development of plan for project staff reporting; and support for performance and compensation reviews.
• Partners with Client Service Leaders and pursuit champions to assist with business development, building client relationships, and pursuit efforts for strategic and mini-mega projects in accordance with HNTB's Sophisticated Sales Approach (SSA).
• Works with the project team and marketing resources to prepare appropriate proposal and presentation materials.
• Leads proposal development and interview presentations for strategic and mini-mega projects to the client as well as general presentations within the industry and community.
• May be responsible for the recruitment, hiring, development, and retention of staff, including development of plan for staff reporting, performance and compensation…