Transportation Design Manager - Lead Multidisciplinary Teams

Mott MacDonald; Westwood (MA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k) with company matching

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Professional registration reimburse m

Caregiver leave

Job summary

The Boston Office of Mott MacDonald is seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead multidisciplinary design teams on infrastructure projects across the Northeast. You will collaborate with project managers to ensure technical integrity, coordination, and on-time delivery.

We value leadership, clear communication, and hands-on design oversight, with a hybrid work model offering in-office collaboration and flexible scheduling. Massachusetts PE licensure is preferred or obtainable via comity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• Massachusetts Professional Engineer licensure required or ability to obtain licensure through comity.
• 10+ years of relevant experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams on infrastructure, transportation, or other complex projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing design scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, coordination and assurance activities.
• Strong understanding of project delivery processes, contractual requirements, stakeholder management, and multidisciplinary design coordination.
• Experience mentoring and developing more junior staff and contributing to a collaborative project team environment.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to influence outcomes, resolve issues, and drive technical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Prepares the design fee estimate and preliminary design schedule during the proposal phase.
• Acts as the single accountable design authority, ensuring multidisciplinary solutions are coherent and contract-compliant.
• Provides the design team with contract materials, scope, requirements and technical obligations.
• Establishes and manages interdisciplinary interfaces and coordination matrices.
• Supports Project Manager in developing Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) and OBS.
• Monitors design budget and identifies variances and corrective actions.
• Enforces quality assurance processes, including design reviews and approvals.
• Supports Discipline Leads and Package Managers with resource planning and succession planning.
• Leads multidisciplinary coordination meetings and Design Reviews (IDRs).
• Manages design standards, technical requirements and variances.

Skills

Leadership

Multidisciplinary design coordination

Project delivery

Stakeholder management

Mentoring staff

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Massachusetts PE licensure (preferred)

Job description

The Boston Office of Mott MacDonald is seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead multidisciplinary design teams on infrastructure projects across the Northeast. You will collaborate with project managers to ensure technical integrity, coordination, and on-time delivery.

We value leadership, clear communication, and hands-on design oversight, with a hybrid work model offering in-office collaboration and flexible scheduling. Massachusetts PE licensure is preferred or obtainable via comity.