Senior Transportation Project Leader | Multidisciplinary PM

HDR; Paducah (KY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Senior Project Manager Engineering to lead multi-disciplinary teams on transportation projects across the United States. The role emphasizes strong leadership, client relations, and adherence to budgets and schedules.

You will oversee complex projects from development through close-out, coordinate staff, and mentor junior managers while ensuring QA/QC and collaboration with marketing and design teams. HDR prides itself on employee ownership and community impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10 years related experience in engineering or transportation projects.
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience.
• Proficiency with MS Office and project management/scheduling software.

Responsibilities

• Direct and coordinate work of single or multidiscipline teams throughout the project's lifecycle (from development & initiation to close-out).
• Responsible for all aspects of large multidiscipline projects or medium-sized projects with high degree of technical complexity, involving a large project staff.
• Produce and coordinate several projects concurrently.
• Establish and maintain client relations, and be involved with marketing, contractual, design and production meetings.
• Conduct work sessions for deliverable development in conjunction with other staff and stakeholders.
• Coordinate staffing and workload through entire project life cycle, and ensure completion of deliverables on schedule.
• Track financial aspects of projects, and coordinate and adjust work effort with team to ensure that work is completed within parameters of agreed-to budget and schedule.
• Work with the Accounting, Operational and Business leadership for periodic project reviews.
• Implement QA/QC procedures.
• Supervise large project staffs and act as mentor for less-experienced Project Managers.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project management software

Estimating tools

Scheduling software

Job description

HDR is seeking a Senior Project Manager Engineering to lead multi-disciplinary teams on transportation projects across the United States. The role emphasizes strong leadership, client relations, and adherence to budgets and schedules.

You will oversee complex projects from development through close-out, coordinate staff, and mentor junior managers while ensuring QA/QC and collaboration with marketing and design teams. HDR prides itself on employee ownership and community impact.