Construction Manager, Roadways

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Position:
Construction Manager, Roadways. Reporting to the Civil Lead, this senior, construction-led role supports the design and development phase with a pathway into execution. The role owns the construction strategy for all civil roadway, streetscape, and landscape works, ensuring designs are constructable, stageable, traffic-aware, and executable in a dense urban environment. It serves as the critical interface between design, utilities, traffic, planning, and construction, influencing early decisions to reduce downstream risk and ensure a seamless transition into delivery.

During construction, the role leads the Roads execution team across all sections.

• Design & Development Phase
  • Act as the construction-savvy civil roads lead during design and development, ensuring roadway designs support constructability, staging, traffic management, and utilities sequencing.
  • Own the construction strategy for all roadway works.
  • Serve as the primary bridge between roadway designers, utilities, traffic, estimators, planners, and construction teams.
  • Challenge and workshop roadway and staging concepts to improve buildability, safety, and public interface outcomes.
  • Lead value engineering, options analysis, and scope optimization related to roadway geometry, pavement structure, staging, temporary works, streetscaping and landscaping.
  • Influence means and methods, access, sequencing, detours, and traffic staging strategies.
  • Ensure roadway design decisions align with utilities sequencing and major traffic pattern changes, including detours and road conversions.
  • Create a detailed plan for all temporary works required to facilitate the execution phase.
  • Support development of cost estimates, schedules, construction methodologies, and risk registers for roadway works.
  • Prepare resource plans in advance of execution so staffing can be appropriately costed in the estimates.
  • Coordinate closely with West, Central, and East geographic sections and support Section Managers during development.
  • Work within an Alliance Contract model during design development and transition into the execution phase delivery environment.
• Construction Phase
  • Lead the Civil Roads execution team once the project transitions into construction.
  • Oversee planning, sequencing, and coordination of roadway, streetscaping, and landscaping works across all segments.
  • Coordinate with People, Performance, and Culture for resource planning and talent acquisition to ensure the right people are available at the right time.
  • Collaborate with utilities, traffic, structures, project controls, safety, quality, and field leadership.
  • Manage scope clarity, staging impacts, and change implications to support strong commercial performance.
  • Maintain strong interfaces with City, client, designers, and Alliance partners throughout execution.
  • Ensure roadway delivery meets schedule, safety, public impact, and quality objectives in a highly constrained urban corridor.
  • Manage major traffic and staging changes, including utilities-driven sequencing constraints and city-wide detours.
  • Ensure roadway designs enable constructable staging and execution, not just design compliance.

• Civil Engineering background preferred, or equivalent hands-on roadway construction experience.
• 15+ years of experience in civil construction, with a strong focus on roadway works.
• Proven experience delivering urban roadway projects in constrained environments.
• Strong background in complex staging, traffic management, and utilities coordination.
• Experience in Alliance, Design Build, Progressive Design Build, and/or P3 delivery models.
• International experience acceptable where aligned to comparable urban Alliance/DB/P3 projects.
• Strong collaborator with the ability to influence design and delivery teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work under pressure, prioritize competing…