Senior Transportation Project Manager
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, guiding multidisciplinary teams, managing project delivery, strengthening client relationships, and contributing to future business pursuits. Projects may include highway capacity and corridor improvements, interchange reconstruction, bridge infrastructure, traffic operations, transit connectivity, and multimodal transportation improvements. The Project Manager oversees projects from planning and preliminary engineering through final design and construction support. They coordinate technical resources, manage scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, risk, and financial performance, and help ensure delivery meets client expectations and applicable standards. The position also supports alternative delivery methods, develops proposals and client presentations, pursues new work, and mentors project managers, engineers, and technical staff. AECOM expects the role to champion safety, quality, sustainability, resilience, and innovative infrastructure delivery.
Requirements
- BA/BS and 10 years of relevant experience, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education, including 2 years of leadership.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, including experience 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.
- Extensive experience managing transportation engineering projects involving 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.
- Experience working with UDOT and familiarity with its design standards, project development procedures, quality requirements, and delivery processes.
- Demonstrated ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, staffing, risk, quality, and financial performance across multiple concurrent assignments.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating roadway, bridge, traffic, drainage, environmental, transit, and construction disciplines.
- Experience with design-build, progressive design-build, or other alternative delivery projects, coordinating owners, designers, contractors, and other delivery partners.
- Experience developing pursuits, technical proposals, scopes of work, fee estimates, staffing plans, and client presentations for transportation projects.
- 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 practice growth.
- 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 across 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 oversee preparation of plans, specifications, cost estimates, technical reports, and other deliverables.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, contractors, agency representatives, and other stakeholders, maintaining communication and trusted relationships.
- Support transportation programs involving highway capacity, corridor improvements, interchange reconstruction, bridges, 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.
- Lead proposal development, scope and fee preparation, staffing strategies, client presentations, and pursuit activities.
- Identify business opportunities, develop client relationships, and strengthen AECOM's position in Utah's transportation market.
- Mentor and develop project managers, engineers, and technical staff, encouraging collaboration, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Champion safety, quality, sustainability, resilience, and innovative infrastructure delivery.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Life, AD&D, and disability benefits
- Paid time off and leaves of absence
- Voluntary benefits and perks
- Flexible work options
- Well-being resources
- Employee assistance program
- Business travel insurance
- Service recognition awards
- Retirement savings plan
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Training and development programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
