Senior Transportation Engineer​/Project Manager

Senior Transportation Engineer/Project Manager

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves:
What is our impact on the world?

Our Omaha team is looking for a success-oriented Roadway Project Manager to work on projects from small intersections and corridor improvement projects to multimodal municipal roadway improvements.

If you’re motivated to deliver quality project work on-time and on-budget for major transportation clients, we want you on our team. As project manager and/or engineering task lead, you will participate in pre-marketing and project pursuits, build and maintain client relationships, staff projects, manage design efforts, QA/QC, monitor projects, and report progress.

In the role of Senior Transportation Engineer/Project Manager, we'll count on you to:

• Plan and manage all aspects of large multidiscipline teams or medium sized projects with high degree technical complexity.
• Plan and prepare scope of services/fee proposals.
• Independently coordinate work of engineers and designers and balance staffing needs throughout entire project’s development.
• Establish client relations and be involved with marketing, including identifying potential opportunities and supporting pursuit and interview efforts.
• Support the growth and development of transportation engineers, EITs and designers through mentoring and project assignments.
• Conduct internal work sessions for design development and contract documents in conjunction with other disciplines.
• Plan and monitor workload needs throughout the entire project development to fully meet project needs.
• Serve as the primary client liaison to successfully complete a project to the client’s satisfaction and build effective client relationships.
• Proactively track financial aspects of projects, and coordinate and adjust work efforts with the team as needed to provide on-schedule and on-budget project delivery.
• Work with Business Group Manager, Project Controller and Department Manager for project reviews.
• Implement QA/QC procedures.
• Be open to opportunities to work with a variety of clients, projects and staff through HDR’s collaborative work sharing efforts across North America and beyond.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in marketing including preparing presentations and technical proposals.
• Experience in pursuit and development of alternative delivery projects.
• State DOT and local agency experience and relationships.
• Model-based digital delivery experience in Bentley (Microstation, Open Roads) or Autodesk (Autocad, Civil3D)
• Work cooperatively with other team members, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers.
• Minimum of 5 years of task lead/project management experience for highways and local roads projects.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years experience in all aspects of roadway engineering design
• Requires professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position offered.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, communication skills and ability to work with various teams
• Experience should include urban and rural highway interchanges, intersection design, traffic management, transportation planning, site planning, preparation of concept alignments, geometrical layout and CAD base alignment plans
• Must have coordinated survey, grading, drainage and utilities and layout of various site items is a plus
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

HDR is committed to the principles of employment equity. We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.