Senior Construction PM – CDOT Projects, Leadership

Ulteig Engineers, Inc.; Greenwood Village (CO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Workplace

Employee Ownership

Competitive Pay

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Collaborative Environment

Innovative Culture

Job summary

Ulteig Engineers, Inc. seeks a Senior Project Manager – Construction Management with a PE (or 20+ years’ experience) to lead CDOT projects across Colorado.

This role emphasizes client relationships, business development, and growing the Civil Department, while mentoring staff and ensuring project success across scopes, schedules, and costs. Travel is expected and collaboration with project controls is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or a relevant field is preferred.
• Professional Engineering licensure preferred.
• PMP Certification preferred.
• 12+ years of experience with a PE license, CDOT, and construction management experience, OR 20+ years of experience without a degree or PE license, CDOT, or construction management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic project management leadership for projects of varying size and complexity
• Develop and maintain client relationships and participate in proposal development
• Responsible for the overall management and execution of the projects’ scopes, schedules, and costs
• Manage and lead a collaborative project team to ensure each project’s needs are being met
• Collaborate with Technical Manager(s) regarding mentoring, training, and skill sets
• Work with project staff and partners to lead meetings between the project team and clients
• Develop, update, and manage the project execution plans
• Coordinate communication and provide status updates to stakeholders as required
• Assess project risk and proactively develop mitigation plans
• Proactively manage project requests for information and action items
• Work collaboratively with the Project Controls team to ensure project schedules and costs are managed and tracked to plan
• Responsible for coordinating projects through all internal and external processes
• Ensure availability or seek out adequate resources to support the projects
• Proficient in analyzing problems, identifying alternative solutions, projecting the consequences of proposed actions, and implementing recommendations to support project scope, schedule, and cost objectives
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work
• Demonstrates excellent leadership, verbal/written communication, time management, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Consistently produces results that meet goals, has high work standards, and understands the business environment and processes
• Achieves results by problem-solving, setting priorities, and organizing
• Maintains customer focus to meet or exceed expectations and represents Ulteig professionally and courteously
• Builds and maintains positive relationships with clients
• Strives for individual excellence by seeking challenges and self-development, demonstrating high levels of expertise, and showing commitment, self-confidence, and integrity

Skills

Project management

Schedule management

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or relevant field

Professional Engineering licensure preferred

Job description

Ulteig Engineers, Inc. seeks a Senior Project Manager – Construction Management with a PE (or 20+ years’ experience) to lead CDOT projects across Colorado.

This role emphasizes client relationships, business development, and growing the Civil Department, while mentoring staff and ensuring project success across scopes, schedules, and costs. Travel is expected and collaboration with project controls is essential.