Transportation Project Manager-Design Build

What We're Looking For

Are you ready to make a significant impact on fast-paced infrastructure projects? HNTB is looking for a passionate Transportation Project Manager I to lead our innovative project teams. In this pivotal role, you'll manage budgets, schedules, technical requirements, and contractual obligations, ensuring top-notch performance and client satisfaction. Be part of a team that delivers HNTB's 4 for 4 performance: quality work, on time, on budget, and to the client's satisfaction. Your expertise will make a real difference in the world of transportation engineering as you solve complex design challenges.

What You'll Do:

• 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 reviews, and succession.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering and 8 years of relevant experience
• 2 years task management or Deputy PM experience

What You'll Bring:

• Winning, contracting, and successfully delivering 4for4 (on-time, on-budget, quality, client satisfaction) on smaller projects. Identifying and escalating risk and change management issues, with oversight from more experienced staff.
• Leading a team for a smaller project or task order with no or few subconsultants.
• Using system tools to manage, monitor, and deliver smaller projects or task orders.
• Leveraging the Office Management Team to assist in implementing HNTB Sophisticated processes as applicable to the project.
• Interfacing with your client-level peer on a smaller project or task order.
• Providing technical guidance to team and task leads as well as performing portions of the technical work.

Preferred Qualifications

Primary Focus Will Include:

• Working closely with other disciplines on multi-disciplinary pursuits and projects

• Managing and leading design teams in delivering complex design-build infrastructure projects with construction values of $100M to $2.5B.

• Supervising, coaching, and mentoring of junior engineering staff.

• This role involves strategic involvement throughout a project's design "life-cycle", including the pre-award (bid phase), post-award, or post-design (construction) phase.

• The position requires travel to project offices.

• Project management activities include staff management, proposal development, budget and cost control on projects, and quality control for assigned projects.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:

• Project management experience delivering Design-Build projects

• Master's degree in Engineering

• 10 years of relevant experience

• Professional Engineer (PE) certification (CA PE preferred)

• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary, collaborative engineering environment

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Kansas City, MO

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