Senior Pre-Construction Lead – Transportation Projects

STV Incorporated; North Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 162,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Continuing Education Program

Professional Licensure and Society<br>

Job summary

STV Incorporated in South Carolina seeks a Pre-Construction Manager / Senior Project Manager to lead planning, design, and execution of complex transportation projects. You will drive preconstruction activities, coordinate with engineers, public agencies, and stakeholders, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive project-management experience, and the ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams across roadway, bridge, and infrastructure scopes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, construction management, transportation planning, architecture, or a related field.
• Professional Engineer license in South Carolina is strongly preferred.
• Substantial progressive experience managing transportation, infrastructure, engineering, construction, or preconstruction projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, complex, multidisciplinary projects.
• Experience delivering projects for public-sector clients (DOTs, municipalities, counties, transit agencies).
• Strong understanding of the transportation project-development and the full preconstruction process in South Carolina.
• Ability to manage project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, staffing, and client expectations.
• Working knowledge of engineering and construction contracts, including scopes of work, fee development, terms, and change management.
• Experience managing project teams, subconsultants, and external stakeholders.
• Strong financial and operational management skills, including budgeting, forecasting, project controls, and performance reporting.
• Ability to develop client relationships and contribute to proposals, interviews, negotiations, and business development.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, leadership, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions involving significant project, client, financial, and organizational considerations.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, clients, and teams concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution of transportation projects through all phases of pre-construction.
• Serve as Project lead on large, complex, multidisciplinary assignments.
• Develop and manage project execution plans including scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, risk, and client expectations.
• Coordinate activities in accordance with policies, regulations, and project-management procedures.
• Direct multidisciplinary teams across roadway, bridge, traffic, drainage, environmental, utility, and planning disciplines.
• Coordinate subconsultants, teaming partners, and public agencies.
• Monitor financial performance, labor utilization, earned value, invoicing, cash flow, and schedule progress.
• Identify risks and implement corrective actions.
• Review contracts, scopes of work, and fee proposals.
• Ensure deliverables are technically sound and constructible.
• Lead reviews, workshops, risk assessments, and management meetings.
• Support operational management and business development initiatives.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Budgeting & forecasting

Scope & schedule management

Contracts & change management

Business development

Decision making

Multitasking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, construction management, transportation planning, architecture, or related field

Professional Engineer license in South Carolina

Job description

STV Incorporated in South Carolina seeks a Pre-Construction Manager / Senior Project Manager to lead planning, design, and execution of complex transportation projects. You will drive preconstruction activities, coordinate with engineers, public agencies, and stakeholders, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive project-management experience, and the ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams across roadway, bridge, and infrastructure scopes.