Senior Transportation & Water Resources Project Lead

HNTB Corporation; Glen Allen, Richmond (VA, VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

HNTB Corporation in Arlington, VA (and other VA locations) seeks a senior engineering leader to direct and mentor junior staff while delivering cross-discipline infrastructure projects. The role emphasizes senior technical decision-making, scope management, and client coordination.

The position requires a degree in engineering with extensive experience, a track record of leading complex projects, and the ability to manage budgets and timelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 8 years of relevant experience.
• Master’s degree in Engineering and 7 years of relevant experience.
• PhD in Engineering and 6 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Uses senior-level technical expertise to consider broad range of engineering solutions.
• Responsible for the discipline-specific planning, work distribution, and leadership and adherence to the schedule, and budget on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Assists in marketing responsibilities, including proposal generation.
• Develops scope of work and level of effort and manages adherence to scope and budget on complex or unusual engineering projects within discipline.
• Oversees completeness and accuracy of project team’s work within the technical discipline.
• Provides technical guidance and mentoring to team members to achieve overall project objectives on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Coordinates technical aspects of the project with client counterpart and teaming partners at staff level for work within the discipline on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Leads discipline delivery on larger, multi-disciplinary projects.
• Works closely with other disciplines on multi-discipline projects.
• Assists with coordination and planning of schedules, hours, and distribution of work for other disciplines on multi-discipline projects on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Recruits, hires, develops and retains staff, including development of plan for staff reporting, performance and compensation reviews, and succession.
• Coordinates schedules and approves timecards.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Technical knowledge

Quality workmanship

Risk assessment

Multi-discipline collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Master’s degree in Engineering

PhD in Engineering

Job description

HNTB Corporation in Arlington, VA (and other VA locations) seeks a senior engineering leader to direct and mentor junior staff while delivering cross-discipline infrastructure projects. The role emphasizes senior technical decision-making, scope management, and client coordination.

The position requires a degree in engineering with extensive experience, a track record of leading complex projects, and the ability to manage budgets and timelines.