Traffic Safety Project Manager I

HNTB

North Charleston (SC)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

HNTB in Charlotte, NC / Columbia, SC / North Charleston, SC seeks a Senior Traffic Engineer/Project Manager to lead safety analyses and DOT projects for Carolinas clients, including NCDOT safety assignments, corridor studies, and predictive safety analyses. You will mentor staff and drive project scope, schedule, and budget.

You will collaborate with client service leaders to pursue strategic opportunities, deliver high-quality work, and maintain client satisfaction across projects.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required.
8+ years of relevant engineering experience.
2 years of task management or Deputy PM experience.

Responsibilities

Develop project scope, fee quotes, proposals, and contracts in line with HNTB policies.
Act as primary client liaison and manage project teams to meet scope, schedule, and budget.
Perform technical tasks including analysis, reports, design, and production for assigned projects.
Lead project delivery plans and mentor team members to meet objectives.
Coordinate staffing and development plans, including performance reviews.

Skills

Project management

Client liaison

Team leadership

Engineering

Technical analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

PE certification

Tools

TEAAS

Job description

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This is an opportunity to join HNTB’s strong Traffic Engineering practice to lead and deliver safety analyses and other types of projects for our Carolinas clients. You will be responsible for delivering NCDOT Safety assignments including fatal and HSIP crash analyses and investigations, safety evaluations, and other safety assignments. Other projects include corridor studies focused on safety and mobility, predictive safety analyses for new projects, and on-call crash analysis requests. The role will include leveraging technical expertise and relationships to deliver projects within budget and to the client’s satisfaction. This opportunity also includes leading, mentoring, training, and reviewing work of members of our current team of professionals.

What You'll Do

Responsible for development of the project scope and fee quotation and assists in the preparation of technical proposals and contracts in accordance with HNTB's Sophisticated Contracting Approach (SCA).
Serves as the primary client liaison and manages the project team to deliver the scope, schedule, and budgets to completion and to the client’s satisfaction. Assists with client project scoping and contract negotiations.
Performs technical discipline tasks including analysis, reports, design, specification, and production for assigned projects.
Implements the firm’s project delivery plan using HNTB's Sophisticated Delivery Approach (SDA) on each project. Leads the development and the execution of the project management plan. Supervises and mentors team to overall project objectives.
Performs coordination with managers on project staffing, including, but not limited to; recruitment, development, retention, and succession of project staff; development of plan for project staff reporting; and support for performance and compensation reviews.
Partners with Client Service Leaders and pursuit champions to assist with business development, building client relationships, and pursuit efforts for strategic and mini-mega projects in accordance with HNTB's Sophisticated Sales Approach (SSA). Works with the project team and marketing resources to prepare appropriate proposal and presentation materials. Leads proposal development and interview presentations for strategic and mini-mega projects to the client as well as general presentations within the industry and community.
May be responsible for the recruitment, hiring, development, and retention of staff, including development of plan for staff reporting, performance and compensation reviews, and succession.
Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 8 years of relevant experience
2 years task management or Deputy PM experience

What You'll Bring

Shows excellent technical knowledge and quality work in multiple discipline projects.
Winning, contracting, and successfully delivering 4for4 (on-time, on-budget, quality, client satisfaction) on smaller projects. Identifying and escalating risk and change management issues, with oversight from more experienced staff.
Leading a team for a smaller project or task order with no or few subconsultants.
Using system tools to manage, monitor, and deliver smaller projects or task orders.
Leveraging the Office Management Team to assist in implementing HNTB Sophisticated processes as applicable to the project.
Interfacing with your client-level peer on a smaller project or task order.
Providing technical guidance to team and task leads as well as performing portions of the technical work.

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