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Project Manager (PE), Transportation, Austin, TX
Halff is seeking a Project Manager (PE) to join our Transportation/Roadway team in Austin, TX. This role is ideal for a licensed Texas PE with a strong background in roadway design and a passion for leading projects, developing teams, and delivering high-quality solutions for DOT and municipal clients.
If you’re looking to take the next step in your career—gaining leadership experience while contributing to impactful transportation projects across Texas—this is a great opportunity to grow with a firm that values people, performance, and long-term success.
This position offers an excellent career development opportunity for someone looking to grow with Halff, with potential for not only business and personal growth, but ownership in the firm.
What You Will Do
Halff's Transportation Services
Halff is a full-service infrastructure consulting firm planned, designed, engineered, constructed — and purposed — for people. Since 1950, we’ve been creating smart solutions that improve lives and communities by turning ideas into reality.
Halff was founded on a core tenet: Focus on people, treat them well, and success will follow. It’s no wonder, then, that our employees and the culture they create result in our firm consistently being named a Top Workplace in America.
Our industry-leading professionals collaborate to meet tough challenges in creative ways. You can view Halff's full complement of services here
Halff has over 30 offices in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Arizona, and Georgia. For a full list of our locations, click here
We Offer Excellent Benefits, Including But Not Limited To
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
Halff is a drug-free workplace. This offer of employment is contingent upon the receipt of a clear drug screen and background check prior to your first day of employment. This position may be subject to random drug testing pursuant to federal regulations.
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Halff is seeking a Project Manager (PE) to join our Transportation/Roadway team in Austin, TX. This role is ideal for a licensed Texas PE with a strong background in roadway design and a passion for leading projects, developing teams, and delivering high-quality solutions for DOT and municipal clients.
If you’re looking to take the next step in your career—gaining leadership experience while contributing to impactful transportation projects across Texas—this is a great opportunity to grow with a firm that values people, performance, and long-term success.
This position offers an excellent career development opportunity for someone looking to grow with Halff, with potential for not only business and personal growth, but ownership in the firm.
What You Will Do
- Lead and manage roadway/transportation design projects from planning through delivery
- Oversee project scope, budgets, schedules, and resource allocation
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, subconsultants, and stakeholders to ensure project success
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Engineers, EITs, and support staff
- Ensure project deliverables meet design standards, quality expectations, and client requirements
- Build and maintain strong client relationships and support ongoing client satisfaction
- Review plans and deliverables for accuracy, quality, and consistency
- Assist with proposal development, RFQs, and business development efforts
- Partner with Transportation leadership on project delivery and strategic growth initiatives
- Monitor project performance, including budget tracking and schedule adherence
- Support QA/QC processes to ensure compliance with industry standards and Halff expectations
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in civil engineering or ABET accredited equivalent engineering degree.
- Professional Engineer (PE) License in the State of Texas.
- 8 years of experience in roadway project development (TXDOT and/or municipal projects preferred)
- Strong experience in roadway design and plan production
- Proficiency in OpenRoads
- Proven ability to lead teams and manage projects from start to finish
- Strong communication, leadership, and decision-making skills
- Experience working with local agencies and regulatory requirements
- Commitment to quality, integrity, and client service
- Primavera (P6) experience is a plus
- Multi-discipline teams to meet challenges that are often complicated by aging infrastructure and shrinking budgets.
- Extensive knowledge in planning, designing and managing transportation projects to move people and goods safely and reliably.
- Collaborative approach to transportation projects.
Halff's Transportation Services
- Bicycle, Pedestrian and Active Transportation Planning and Design
- Drainage Design
- Feasibility and Preliminary Engineering
- Innovative Intersections
- Local and Regional Transportation Planning
- Multimodal and Transit Planning and Design
- NEPA Studies, Outreach and Visualization
- Roadway Design
- Safety Improvements
- Structural Engineering
- TCP/Maintenance of Traffic
- Traffic Engineering/ITS
Halff is a full-service infrastructure consulting firm planned, designed, engineered, constructed — and purposed — for people. Since 1950, we’ve been creating smart solutions that improve lives and communities by turning ideas into reality.
Halff was founded on a core tenet: Focus on people, treat them well, and success will follow. It’s no wonder, then, that our employees and the culture they create result in our firm consistently being named a Top Workplace in America.
Our industry-leading professionals collaborate to meet tough challenges in creative ways. You can view Halff's full complement of services here
Halff has over 30 offices in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Arizona, and Georgia. For a full list of our locations, click here
We Offer Excellent Benefits, Including But Not Limited To
- Medical, dental, prescription and life insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Paid time off (PTO) and 8 company paid holidays (and Veteran's Day for our veterans)
- Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 529 College Savings Plan
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Employee Assistance Plan
- Click here for a more comprehensive list of Halff's benefits
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
Halff is a drug-free workplace. This offer of employment is contingent upon the receipt of a clear drug screen and background check prior to your first day of employment. This position may be subject to random drug testing pursuant to federal regulations.
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