Senior Transportation Design Manager

Mott MacDonald; Norwood (MA); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Mott MacDonald in Boston is seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead multidisciplinary design teams on complex projects across the Northeast. You will partner with project managers to ensure technical integrity, coordination, and on-time delivery.

The role requires a Bachelor's in Engineering, 10+ years of experience, and a Massachusetts PE license or comity. The team operates with a hybrid work model and a strong focus on collaboration, innovation, and quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering; advanced degree preferred.
• Massachusetts PE licensure required or ability to obtain licensure via comity.
• 10+ years leading multidisciplinary design teams on infrastructure, transportation, or other complex projects.
• Experience managing design scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and coordination.
• Strong understanding of project delivery processes, contractual requirements, stakeholder management, and multidisciplinary design coordination.
• Experience mentoring and developing more junior staff and contributing to a collaborative project team environment.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to influence project outcomes, resolve complex issues, and drive technical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Prepares the design fee estimate and preliminary design schedule during the proposal phase.
• Acts as the single accountable design authority, ensuring multidisciplinary solutions are technically coherent, suitable, contract-compliant, aligned with project objectives, and supported by required design certifications.
• Provides the design team with all contract materials, including scope, requirements and technical obligations necessary to deliver the project within budget and schedule.
• Establishes and manages interdisciplinary interfaces and coordination matrices, defining clear accountability for design interfaces across disciplines, subconsultants and specialist contributors.
• Supports the Project Manager in developing effective Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) and Organizational Breakdown Structures (OBS) aligned with project delivery requirements and technical assurance activities.
• Monitors the design budget and identifies emerging variances and corrective actions.
• Enforces quality assurance processes, including discipline peer reviews, design checks, approvals and maintenance of associated records.
• Supports Discipline Leads and Package Managers with resource planning, deployment and succession planning activities.
• Leads multidisciplinary coordination meetings, Design Review Meetings and Interdisciplinary Design Reviews (IDRs), driving resolution of technical issues and coordination actions.
• Manages design standards, technical requirements and approved variances, ensuring requirements are communicated, maintained and properly authorized.
• Maintains effective communication with project stakeholders to meet contractual, technical and delivery obligations.
• Coordinates the completion, review and issue of technical deliverables across all disciplines.
• Supports the identification and management of design-related changes, including preparation of associated cost and schedule impacts.
• Identifies, assesses and manages design risks and issues, implementing mitigation and resolution plans as required.

Skills

Leadership

Project coordination

Communication

Strategic planning

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Massachusetts PE licensure (or comity)

Job description

Mott MacDonald in Boston is seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead multidisciplinary design teams on complex projects across the Northeast. You will partner with project managers to ensure technical integrity, coordination, and on-time delivery.

The role requires a Bachelor's in Engineering, 10+ years of experience, and a Massachusetts PE license or comity. The team operates with a hybrid work model and a strong focus on collaboration, innovation, and quality.