Senior Construction Manager

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

Arcadis is seeking an experienced Senior Construction Manager to join our growing team in the Chattanooga/Knoxville area. In this role, you will lead construction management activities on complex transportation infrastructure projects, ensuring safety, quality, and client satisfaction throughout all project phases.

• Supports TDOT’s project leadership while coordinating with other Project leads.
• Performs management and general administrative role for oversight of engineering and construction services and understanding their interface with project’s objectives.
• Able to act decisively and timely to ensure TDOT’s schedule responsibilities are met.
• Able to balance engineering and construction constraints, policy goals, and stakeholder needs to recommend optimal solutions to difficult issues.
• Authority to commit to consultant engineering resources and is ultimately responsible for the timely, high‑quality execution of tasks and products.
• Establishes and manages processes to ensure timely reviews of and responses to all engineering and construction submittals.
• Establish processes to review comments for appropriateness, assess dispositions, and bring comments to timely resolution.
• Establishes and leads a technical issues escalation process that solves all issues early and at the lowest level possible.
• Responsible for recording and managing key engineering and construction decisions. Records shall provide all back‑up material necessary for the defense of potential future change orders and/or claims.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Construction Management
• 10 years’ experience in transportation infrastructure development and construction industry.
• Demonstrated experience in similar roles/responsibilities as Senior Construction Manager on past design‑build or design‑bid‑build projects.
• Demonstrated skill in maneuvering through complex political situations with sensitivity to how people and organizations function, and negotiating and leading discussions to reach positive outcomes.
• Demonstrated knowledge, skills, and experience to manage, coordinate, and oversee multiple project support efforts to meet on‑time, on‑budget, high‑quality business objectives.
• Demonstrated knowledge of public policy and business practices related to transportation issues.

• TDOT experience, including applicable certifications
• Professional Engineering license

Arcadis offers benefits for full‑time and part‑time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, vision, EAP, 401(k), STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program, and optional benefits such as wellbeing, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $120,000 – $140,000.

We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non‑discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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