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Engineering Project Manager

Sandis
Modesto, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 7/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/8/2026

Sandis is currently looking for a Project Manager to join our growing team in Modesto, CA. Our project managers oversee and supervise a design team of up to six individuals. If you have a strong technical background in land development, we think you will love it here!

Why you will love it here:

  • Professional development, training, and mentorship
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Amazing teams of supportive and hard-working professionals

Cool Stuff you get to do:

  • Be responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling project team activities, including but not limited to reviewing and/or supervising technical aspects of work as well as defining and overseeing project scopes, budgets and schedules
  • Coordinate with all project members, attending/running meetings and assuring that all project documentation is maintained
  • Oversee the production of plan, specification and estimate packages
  • Prepare and oversee the production of various reports including technical engineering reports.
  • Prepare various forms and agreements needed for project approval
  • Ensure appropriate quality control measures have been implemented
  • Prepare improvement plans including rough/precise grading, Stormwater management and utility plans
  • Computation of grades, earthwork quantities, and materials estimates
  • Maintain ongoing client relationships, pursue new professional connections, and seek new project opportunities with new and current clients.

What will help you be successful:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering
  • 8 years of recent experience in the Civil Engineering Industry (Land Development Design) and 5 years as a Project Manager
  • Professional Engineer License
  • Excellent understanding of precise grading, utility plans, drainage, and stormwater management.
  • Strong understanding of codes and can spot issues with code compliance in design.
  • Must be detail-oriented with strong organizational and time management skills
  • AutoCAD Civil 3D proficiency preferred

 A little about Sandis Benefits: 

  • Competitive salaries, end-of-year bonuses, and 401k
  • Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance including life and long-term disability
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for health care, parking and transit, and dependent care expenses
  • 24 days of paid time off starting at 16 days PTO, 8 paid Holidays
  • 3 days paid bereavement; 10 days paid jury duty
  • Education reimbursement and professional license program, Paid annual dues for professional and societal organizations

Sandis is a professional services corporation specializing in civil engineering (Land Development Design), traffic engineering, land surveying, and planning, but we are much more than the services we offer. Sandis is about reliability, experience, and expertise. For over 60 years, we have been committed to innovation, excellence, leadership, and environmental stewardship. Our job and passion are to provide the foundation for the future to be built upon, always improving the communities where we live, work, and play. We service private and public clients in the high-tech, research and redevelopment, laboratory, corporate, commercial, residential, healthcare, academic, hospitality, civic, justice, and public works sectors. We are a team of experts who care about the people we work with and for.

Sandis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Salary : $130,000 - $175,000

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