Senior Transportation Project Manager

AECOM•Murray, UT

17h•$165,000 - $230,000•Hybrid

About The Position

AECOM is seeking a Senior Transportation Project Manager to join its Transportation team in Murray, Utah. The role provides strategic and technical leadership for complex transportation infrastructure projects across Utah and the Intermountain West. The project portfolio may include highway capacity, interchange improvements, corridor reconstruction, bridges, transit connectivity, traffic operations, and regional mobility initiatives. The position leads projects from planning and preliminary engineering through final design and construction support, guiding multidisciplinary teams and managing project delivery, client relationships, and business development. The Project Manager helps shape project direction, support innovative and alternative delivery approaches, and build partnerships with public-sector agencies and communities. The role also mentors staff and promotes safety, quality, sustainability, resilience, and innovative infrastructure delivery.

Requirements

Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree plus 10 years of relevant experience, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education, including 2 years of leadership.
Experience managing transportation engineering projects, such as highways, roadways, interchanges, bridges, traffic infrastructure, or multimodal improvements.
Experience delivering complex transportation projects for state departments of transportation, counties, municipalities, or other public-sector agencies.
Ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, staffing, risk, quality, and financial performance across multiple concurrent assignments.
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating technical work across roadway, bridge, traffic, drainage, environmental, transit, and construction disciplines.
Experience developing pursuits, technical proposals, scopes of work, fee estimates, staffing plans, and client presentations for transportation infrastructure opportunities.
Strong leadership and communication skills, including mentoring technical staff, managing stakeholder expectations, and presenting engineering concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Ability to balance strategic project leadership with hands-on problem-solving, sound engineering judgment, and delivery of high-quality work on schedule and within budget.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
Professional Engineer (PE) license in Utah, or ability to obtain Utah licensure.
Experience working with UDOT and familiarity with its design standards, project development procedures, quality requirements, and delivery processes.
Experience with design-build, progressive design-build, or other alternative delivery projects, coordinating owners, designers, contractors, and delivery partners.
Established client relationships in Utah's transportation market, including UDOT, local transportation agencies, counties, and municipalities.
Demonstrated ability to identify business opportunities, strengthen client relationships, support strategic pursuits, and contribute to growth of a transportation engineering practice.
Familiarity with Bentley OpenRoads Designer, MicroStation, AutoCAD Civil 3D, and relevant scheduling, estimating, and project controls tools.

Responsibilities

Serve as Project Manager and technical leader for large, complex transportation infrastructure projects, from planning and preliminary engineering through final design and construction support.
Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams spanning roadway, highway, interchange, bridge, traffic, transit, drainage, environmental, and related disciplines.
Manage project scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, risk, and financial performance.
Establish project delivery strategies, coordinate technical resources, and ensure timely preparation of plans, specifications, cost estimates, technical reports, and other deliverables.
Serve as a primary contact for clients, contractors, agency representatives, and other stakeholders, building relationships and maintaining clear communication.
Support transportation programs involving highway capacity, corridor improvements, interchange reconstruction, bridge infrastructure, traffic operations, and multimodal connectivity.
Lead technical coordination and design reviews to ensure compliance with UDOT, local agency, federal, and industry standards.
Monitor project performance, identify risks and opportunities, resolve delivery challenges, and implement corrective actions.
Support alternative delivery methods, including design-build and progressive design-build, and coordinate with construction partners on practical, cost-effective solutions.
Lead proposal development, scope and fee preparation, staffing strategies, client presentations, and pursuit activities.
Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships, develop new business, and strengthen AECOM's position in Utah's transportation market.
Mentor and develop project managers, engineers, and technical staff, promoting collaboration, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
Champion safety, quality, sustainability, resilience, and innovative infrastructure delivery.