Senior Transportation Project Leader

STV; Greenville (SC); On-site; USD 149,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Continuing Education Program

Job summary

STV is seeking a Senior Transportation Project Manager to lead planning, design, development, and construction of transportation initiatives across South Carolina. You will oversee preconstruction through construction, coordinating with clients, agencies, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure successful, on-time outcomes.

You will drive scope, schedule, budget, and risk management, mentor junior staff, and promote project-management excellence across the SC portfolio.

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.
• Working knowledge of engineering and construction contracts, including scopes of work, fee development, terms and conditions, amendments, 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.
• Demonstrated 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, design, development and construction phases of transportation projects.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, staffing and contract performance across multidisciplinary teams.
• Coordinate with clients, agencies, and stakeholders to ensure constructible, compliant outcomes.
• Review contracts, fees, schedules and terms; drive proactive risk management and issue resolution.
• Provide leadership for staff development and project-management standards across SC portfolios.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Negotiation

Interpersonal skills

Project management

Budgeting

Staff development

Experience managing transportation

Leading large projects

Public-sector project experience

SC preconstruction process

Contract & change management

Team leadership

Financial management

Client relations & business dev

Communication & presentation

Decision making

Multitasking

Education

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

Professional Engineer license in South Carolina

Job description

STV is seeking a Senior Transportation Project Manager to lead planning, design, development, and construction of transportation initiatives across South Carolina. You will oversee preconstruction through construction, coordinating with clients, agencies, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure successful, on-time outcomes.

You will drive scope, schedule, budget, and risk management, mentor junior staff, and promote project-management excellence across the SC portfolio.