Transportation Project Manager

Overview

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Atlanta, GA

Reporting To: Kristie Di Cocco

Compensation: $93,500 - $127,500 / year

Alta is looking for a Transportation Engineer Project Manager (Engineering Associate I-II) to join our growing design team in the Atlanta office. This mid-career role is a fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about sustainable transportation and eager to advance their career. In this position, you will work on a wide variety of projects focused on transforming communities through multimodal transportation solutions, including complete street reconfigurations, bikeway designs, complex trails, and other innovative transportation solutions.

You’ll work on both large- and small-scale projects and contribute to plans and designs that make a real impact on the safety and accessibility of communities across Georgia and around the country.

In this role, you’ll collaborate with our multidisciplinary team of planners, landscape architects, graphics designers, outreach specialists, and data analysts. You’ll be mentored by industry leaders and have the opportunity to engage with complex design challenges, working across scales from conceptual design to detailed plans and specifications. If you are looking for a chance to grow your skills in a dynamic, collaborative environment and contribute to meaningful transportation projects, apply with Alta today!

About Alta

Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets 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 200 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

As a Transportation Engineer Project Manager
, you will be responsible for:

• Managing a variety of multimodal transportation projects, including complete streets, bikeway design, and pedestrian improvements.
• Developing high-quality design documents, including Plans, Specifications, and Estimates (PS&E) for bid-ready packages.
• Participating in site visits to investigate existing conditions, observe construction activities, and inform design decisions.
• Leading and supporting project coordination meetings with clients and consultants.
• Collaborating with internal teams to prepare proposals, scope of work documents, and technical graphics for grant applications and other planning activities.
• Assisting with business development and contributing to the proposal process when pursuing new projects.

Required:

• 8+ years of experience as a Transportation Engineer in a consulting environment or public entity
• 2+ years of experience with project management, including coordinating teams, preparing scopes of work, budgets, and schedules.
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or a related field from an ABET/EAC-accredited program.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and/or Micro Station; experience with Civil 3D, Open Roads
• Experience with DOT and Federally funded design projects is strongly desired
• Strong background in transportation design, including experience with multimodal transportation solutions, complete streets, bikeway design, pedestrian improvements, and related projects.
• Ability to design, manage, and deliver project tasks such as geometric…