Senior Project Manager – Transportation Design-Build (PE)

Department: Transportation

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte, NC

What you will lead:

• Manage highway design-build projects, including scope, schedule, budget, staffing, risk, and quality.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and coordinate closely with construction partners.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for contractor clients and owner agencies.
• Guide projects from pursuit and proposal development through design and construction support.
• Establish project execution plans and maintain accountability for milestones, budgets, and deliverables.
• Identify project risks and lead timely resolution of technical, contractual, and delivery issues.
• Manage contracts, amendments, change orders, claims, subconsultants, and project financial performance.
• Implement quality-control processes that support accurate, constructible, and compliant deliverables.
• Mentor project managers and technical staff while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team.
• Support projects in North Carolina and, as needed, elsewhere in the southeastern United States.

What you bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering field.
• Active Professional Engineer license in North Carolina.
• At least 10 years of experience in highway or transportation infrastructure design.
• Demonstrated success managing multidisciplinary transportation design projects.
• At least five years of experience supporting NCDOT design-build projects is preferred.
• Strong client, contractor, and owner-agency relationship-management skills.
• Proven ability to manage project scope, schedules, budgets, risk, and quality.
• Clear written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to lead teams, make timely decisions, and perform effectively in a deadline-driven environment.

DRMP Offers

• Excellent compensation package
• Outstanding holiday and paid-time-off programs
• 401(k) Plan and Match 
• Career Path Development Program (Management & Technical Career Tracks)
• Mentorship Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Parental Leave
• Competitive health and dental insurance premiums 
• Variety of voluntary benefit options 
• Short-Term Disability/Long-Term Disability
• Company-furnished life insurance
• Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
• Flexible Spending Account
• and More