Senior Roadway Project Manager

Location: Chandler, AZ, United States; Hybrid

A career in transportation is more than bridges, roads, and rail. As we plan, design, and manage projects that move people and goods from Point A to Point B, we create connections that transform our communities. Every airport, road, bridge, port, or transit project is an opportunity to make communities safer, cleaner, and more resilient. Together, we’re making an impact around the world. 

If you’re looking for a career that moves, join our team of professionals who are passionate about the future of transportation.

Your Opportunity

Stantec is looking for a full time senior 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 Senior 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 Senior Project Manager will serve as the primary client and public facing contact for the project. The Senior Project Manager will provide supervision as needed; function 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 Senior Project Manager will support business development and the delivery of proposals.

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 Key Responsibilities

• Performs on technically complex projects and acts as a technical resource by providing guidance to other team members on roadway-related projects.
• Consult 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.
• Involved in the recruitment of new staff.
• Supervision of direct reports. This may lead to supervision/oversight of other PMs.
• Responsible for sales goals consistent with level of experience; anticipate a minimum of new project revenue on the order of $500K in year 1 and $1M in year 2.