Senior Project Manager - Bridges

HNTB Corporation•Saint Louis, MO

About The Position

At HNTB, we offer more than just a job—we offer a chance to build a meaningful career while shaping the communities we all live in. For over a century, we’ve delivered innovative solutions for some of the nation’s most complex infrastructure projects. With our continued growth, now is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners. As a Senior Project Manager – Engineering, you’ll lead the full lifecycle of assigned projects—from shaping proposals and negotiating contracts to delivering high-quality results that meet HNTB’s “4for4” performance commitment: quality work, delivered on time, on budget, and to the client’s satisfaction. You’ll manage budgets, schedules, technical requirements, and client communications, while also performing high-level technical tasks. This includes reviewing and managing design specifications, calculations, reports, and plans. You’ll collaborate with internal and external partners across disciplines to resolve design challenges and ensure project success. This role typically involves managing multi-disciplinary teams on mini-mega ($1M–<$5M) or mega ($5M–<$25M) projects, and may also include leadership roles on super mega (>$25M) projects. Additional Responsibilities: You’ll also lead a technical discipline section based in our St. Louis office, focusing on the design and delivery of bridge-related tasks. This includes managing scope, budget, and quality control for various projects, while coordinating priorities and staffing with our Kansas City, Des Moines, Overland Park, and Oklahoma City bridge teams. As a leader, you’ll mentor and coach staff, ensuring efficient resource utilization and high-quality service delivery. You’ll typically oversee a team of 7–10 or more professionals.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 12 years of relevant experience
4 years of successful management of engineering projects
Winning, contracting, and successfully delivering 4for4 (on-time, on-budget, quality, client satisfaction) on multi-disciplined or large/complex projects.
Identifying and handling risk and change management independently.
Leading large teams inside and outside of HNTB using sub-consultants.
Using system tools to manage, monitor, and deliver complex projects.
Leading HNTB's Sophisticated processes as applicable to the project.
Serving as the lead interface with the client.
Deploying talent to other projects and developing successors to work with the same client on other work.

Nice To Haves

15 years of relevant experience
Master’s degree in Civil/Structural Engineering
Professional Engineer (PE) certification
Master's of Business Administration (MBA)
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Experience managing bridge projects in Missouri

Responsibilities

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.
Leads client contract scoping and 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.
Responsible for/oversees 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 mega and super 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, mini-mega or 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.