Transportation Project Manager

HNTB; DeLand (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

HNTB in Lake Mary/DeLand area is seeking a senior project leadership professional to drive scope, schedule, and budgets for complex infrastructure projects. This client-facing role offers collaboration with the project team and opportunities to influence contracts and technical delivery.

Required are a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with substantial experience and a track record in task management or deputy PM duties, plus a mindset for leading teams and coordinating staff development.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Develop project scope and fee quotation; assist with proposals and contracts.
• Serve as primary client liaison; manage project team to meet scope, schedule, and budgets.
• Perform technical analysis, reports, design, specification, and production for assigned projects.
• Lead project delivery using SDA; supervise and mentor staff toward objectives.
• Coordinate staffing, recruitment, development, and performance reviews.
• Support business development; lead proposals and presentations for strategic projects.

Skills

Client liaison

Team leadership

Contract negotiations

Task management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

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 position will have the opportunity to be client facing, working out of the Lake Mary office or client office in Deland.

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

• 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.

What We Prefer

• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Proficiency of FDOT criteria and standards.
• Knowledge of FDOT systems: ERC, LRE, PrP, etc.
• Experience in managing FD