Senior Civil Engineering Project Manager

Senior Civil Engineering Project Manager

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Pay Range: $130,000 – $175,000 per year.

Alta is looking for a Senior Civil Engineering Project Manager to join our growing practice in Arizona. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation.

In this role, you will work on the design of a variety of sustainable transportation projects and focus on making a positive impact on communities around Arizona and across the country. Engineers who enjoy working closely with other disciplines will appreciate our team’s multi-disciplinary approach that encourages collaboration with planners, landscape architects, graphics designers, outreach specialists, and data analysts. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!

Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Founded in 1996, Alta pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving its planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and get them to where they need to go.

Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 27 years with over 230 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

Our Senior Civil Engineering PM will be involved in helping foster livable communities in all parts of the country. Projects range from natural surface trails to large arterial multi-use paths; from Complete Streets to regional/multi-state bicycle and trail networks.

• Managing a variety of transportation projects from design through construction, driving project success and influencing sustainable outcomes.
• Implementing best practices and process improvements to enhance project delivery efficiency and effectiveness.
• Mentoring staff and contributing to internal professional development and training for the technical engineering team.
• Providing leadership and technical expertise to the Engineering team and collaborating with other disciplines (planning, landscape, data) as needed.
• Preparing schedules, budgets, and scopes of services for projects.
• Balancing workloads across projects.
• Supporting the regional leader in business development.

Required

• 12+ years of experience as a Transportation Engineer in a consulting environment or public entity; 5+ years as a Project Manager; 3+ years managing staff.
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering.
• Professional Engineering (P.E.) license or TE (Traffic Engineer) licensure.
• Experience in active, non-motorized transportation.
• Strong understanding of Plans, Specifications, and Estimates packages for roadway projects and project management principles, methods, and techniques.
• Ability to guide staff and manage internal team expectations.
• Strong initiative and ability to capitalize on opportunities to enhance Alta’s market position.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, multiple simultaneous projects within budgetary and schedule constraints.
• Willingness to travel.
• Excellent professional ethics, leadership skills, accountability, and decision-making capabilities.
• Working knowledge of MS Excel, Word, MS Project or equivalent, AutoCAD or Micro Station.
• Proficiency in an enterprise-wide resource planning and project management tool.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience managing large projects for both private and public clients.
• Experience using Deltek Vision.
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