Senior Transportation Project Manager

Jacobs Engineering Group; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs in Hawaii is seeking a Senior Transportation Project Manager to lead planning, design, and construction support across roadways and transit projects.

As a vital member of our Hawaii team, you’ll lead multidisciplinary project teams, partner with clients, and deliver projects from concept through closeout while balancing scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk. The role supports a hybrid working policy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering.
• Hawaii P.E. license or ability to obtain Hawaii licensure within 6 months.
• 12+ years of civil/transportation engineering experience, including 5+ years of project management.
• Demonstrated experience delivering transportation projects for public-sector agencies; Hawaii exp desirable.
• Client-facing leadership, as the point of contact for design/production meetings and proposal support.
• Working knowledge of applicable federal/state/county design standards.
• Existing relationships within the Hawaii transportation market.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary project teams and partner with clients to deliver planning, design, and construction support services.
• Guide projects from concept through closeout, balancing scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk.
• Build strong relationships with agencies, stakeholders, and teaming partners.

Skills

PM leadership

Client management

Stakeholder engagement

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Job description

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Thriving communities. Healthy cities. Diverse experience. A brighter future. Continuous learning and growth. What we do is more than building roads and bridges; we workevery dayto make the world better for everyone. If you want to join a company invested in you, your success and the global community, join us as aSenior Transportation Project Manager.

As a vital member of our Hawaii team, you’ll work with and lead multidisciplinary project teams and partner with clients to deliver planning, design, and construction support services across a diverse portfolio of roadways and transit projects from roadway modernization and complete streets and multimodal mobility improvements. You’ll work on and guide projects from concept through closeout, balancing scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk, while building strong relationships with agencies, stakeholders, and teaming partners.

Join us and we’ll assist in continuing the development of your skills and exploring all that you can do across our global company.

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Here’s what you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
• Hawaii Professional Engineer (P.E.) license (or ability to obtain Hawaii licensure within 6 months)
• 12+ years of relevant civil/transportation engineering experience, including 5+ years of project management leading projects.
• Demonstrated experience successfully delivering transportation projects for public-sector agencies. Experience with Hawaii transportation agencies, clients, and stakeholders are highly desirable.
• Client‑facing leadership, serving as the point of contact, facilitating design/production meetings; and supports proposal development.
• Working knowledge of applicable federal/state/county design standards
• Existing relationships within the Hawaii transportation market.

Ideally, You Also Have:

• Demonstrated ability to train, mentor, and enable others - building PM capability through coaching, templates, and repeatable practices across multidisciplinary teams and/or client organizations.
• Experience coordinating staffing and workload, mentoring early- and mid-career engineers, and applying QA/QC practices for consistent, high-quality deliverables.
• PMP or DBIA
• Strong proposal and technical writing skills.

The base salary range for this position is $147,500.00 to $250,000.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Job posted on November 11, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support .