Roadway Project Manager
Do you see your career as a highway to a brighter future? Join our roadways team to drive forth our economies, our societies, and your career.
Your Opportunity
Stantec is looking for a full time professional with strong project management and roadway engineering capabilities to lead various-sized roadway study and design projects for state departments of transportation and local municipalities.
As a project team leader, the Project Manager will work closely together with a project engineer, roadway designers, traffic engineers and other team members to deliver location and alignment studies, preliminary and final design plans, and other technical documents common to roadway engineering projects. The Project Manager will serve as the primary client and public facing contact for the project.
The Project Manager will provide supervision as needed; act as an advisor and be actively involved in meeting schedules and resolving problems as they arise. They will be responsible for managing the scope and integration of subconsultants and employees. It is also anticipated that the Project Manager will support business development and the delivery of proposals.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Performs on technically complex projects and acts as a technical resource by providing guidance to other team members on roadway-related projects.
- Liaise with clients, agencies, and others to obtain and determine project requirements and approvals.
- Assists in the preparation of client proposals, reports, and the development of project design elements.
- Leads a project team in inventorying and analyzing existing project conditions and determination of the project’s purpose and need
- Leads a project team in identifying and analyzing principal design features and alternatives
- Leads a project team in the development of feasible design alternatives to be compared against significant project parameters such as site conditions, right-of-way requirements, utility conflicts, design standards, safety, capacity, environmental impacts, community input, and cost.
- Peer reviews studies, plans, contract documents, and estimates.
- Manages the team in development of highway and roadway design plans
- Supervision of direct reports
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Demonstrate recent experience developing highway and/or roadway projects
- Ability to lead design teams, manage projects, and check the work of others for accuracy and completeness and management of project time to meet budget and schedule.
- Understands client expectations, budgeting, and proposal writing.
- Knowledge of all relevant areas of transportation design and understanding of various design methods.
- Proficient in Microsoft (MS) Office Suite.
- Ability to lead meetings with the client, design teams, other agencies, and the public.
- Effective communicator and able to work with and lead teams.
- Knowledge of relevant design software, which may include AutoCAD Civil 3d and 3-D Modeling is a plus.
- Ability to see the big picture of roadway projects.
- Experience in storm drain design, utility relocations, traffic designs is a plus.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Civil Engineering or related field.
- Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in roadway design or similar.
- Licensed Professional Engineer is desired.
Position will primarily work in an office setting; may require some field work. Typical office environment includes working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
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