Senior Pre-Construction & Transportation Project Leader

STV, Inc.; 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

Job summary

STV, Inc. seeks an experienced Pre-Construction Manager / Senior Project Manager to lead our Transportation and Infrastructure practice in South Carolina.

You will oversee planning, design, environmental coordination, and transition to construction for complex transportation projects, while guiding scope, schedule, budget, and risk across multidisciplinary teams. This role requires strong leadership in client service, staff development, and operations, with collaboration among project teams,

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 and may be required depending on assigned responsibilities.
• Substantial progressive experience managing transportation, infrastructure, engineering, construction, or preconstruction projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, complex, multidisciplinary projects.
• Experience delivering projects for a state department of transportation, municipality, county, transit agency, or comparable public-sector client.
• Strong understanding of the transportation project-development and the full preconstruction process in South Carolina.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, staffing, and client expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution of transportation projects through all phases of pre-construction.
• Serve as Project on large, complex, and multidisciplinary assignments.
• Develop and manage project execution plans defining scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality requirements, risk-management procedures, communication protocols, and client expectations.
• Plan, organize, coordinate, and control project activities per STV policies and regulations.
• Direct multidisciplinary teams including roadway, bridge, traffic, drainage, environmental, utility, right-of-way professionals.
• Coordinate subconsultants, teaming partners, contractors, and public agencies.
• Monitor project financial performance, labor utilization, earned value, invoicing, cash flow, schedule progress, change management, and profitability.
• Identify project risks and implement corrective actions.
• Review contracts, amendments, scopes of work, and terms.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Negotiation

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or related field

Professional Engineer license in South Carolina (preferred)

Job description

STV, Inc. seeks an experienced Pre-Construction Manager / Senior Project Manager to lead our Transportation and Infrastructure practice in South Carolina.

You will oversee planning, design, environmental coordination, and transition to construction for complex transportation projects, while guiding scope, schedule, budget, and risk across multidisciplinary teams. This role requires strong leadership in client service, staff development, and operations, with collaboration among project teams,