Senior Transportation Project Manager

Our Dewberry New York City office is seeking a Senior Transportation Project Manager with strong NYSDOT design experience. Have you led NYSDOT projects as a project manager, civil highway lead or design manager? Are you familiar with NYC public agency requirements? Then this position may be perfect for you. You'll be primarily responsible for managing interdisciplinary projects, document preparation and production, managing subconsultants, monitoring budgets, schedules and quality. You will also be assigned to client teams and will likely become a client manager.

You will be most sought after if you have an in-depth background in the design of highways and streets, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and experience delivering design build projects. Bring your skills for creating innovative technical concepts and writing winning proposals.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you're an experienced professional or a new graduate, you'll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call "Dewberry at Work," that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Serve as Project Manager and senior technical lead on highway, street reconstruction, and streetscape projects from preliminary design through PS&E and construction support
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, staffing, and subconsultants; forecast and report on project financial performance
• Direct the preparation and QA/QC review of design plans, engineering estimates, specifications, and detail sheets
• Coordinate across drainage, utilities, traffic, structures, geotechnical, survey, and ROW disciplines, and with utility companies and affected stakeholders
• Serve as the day-to-day client contact ,lead progress meetings, resolve design issues, and respond to agency comments
• Ensure designs conform to NYC DOT, NYC DDC, NYSDOT, PANYNJ, AASHTO, and ADA/PROWAG requirements
• Support business development: proposals, interviews, scoping meetings, and long-term client relationships
• Mentor and develop project engineers and designers; support their progression toward licensure

• Bachelor's Degree and/or/Master's degree in Civil Engineering or related
• Registered Professional Engineer in NY.
• At least 12 years' experience in transportation
• Demonstrated project management experience on public agency capital projects, including direct responsibility for scope, schedule, and budget
• Working experience with one or more of: **NYS Department of Transportation, , Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,**
• Command of applicable design standards and manuals: NYC DOT and DDC standard details and specifications, NYSDOT Highway Design Manual and Standard Specifications, AASHTO Green Book, MUTCD, ADA/PROWAG
• Proficiency with MicroStation/OpenRoads and/or AutoCAD Civil 3D
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to agency clients and community stakeholders
• Design Build experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Driving is a requirement of the position. A clean driving record is required.

Benefits ("Why us"):

• A deep, established backlog of NYC-region transportation work and long-standing agency relationships
• Direct ownership of client relationships and a real seat at the table on practice growth
• Hybrid schedule, competitive benefits, 401(k) with company match, paid professional licensure and society memberships, and tuition assistance
• A clear path to Associate/Principal for engineers who want to build a group, not just a project list

Don't meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employees'. So if you're excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters: Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

The projected range for this position is $175,000-$205,000 annually. Depending upon other factors, i.e., skills, experience, location, market conditions, the range may vary slightly. These ranges are for NY only.