Traffic Group Leader/Senior Project Manager

Dewberry • Raleigh, NC

11d • Onsite

About The Position

Dewberry is seeking a Traffic Engineering Group Lead/Senior Project Manager to join its North Carolina Transportation Team in the Raleigh, North Carolina office. The role offers an opportunity to grow and strengthen the firm’s transportation design practice in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The successful candidate will lead and build the North Carolina/Georgia traffic team, expand traffic engineering services in collaboration with technical leads, and manage traffic-focused projects and the group’s project managers, workloads, schedules, and budgets.

The position also involves developing client relationships, supporting project pursuits, preparing marketing materials, and providing quality control reviews of design plans and documents. Dewberry is a professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. The company describes a commitment to high-quality service, collaboration, innovation, and an inclusive workplace. Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization. Employment offers are subject to a background screening conducted in compliance with applicable law.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related field.
• Professional Engineer license required; ability to obtain a North Carolina PE within three months.
• 15 or more years of experience in traffic and transportation engineering, preferably with state and municipal agencies.
• Experience with traffic design, including contract plans, specifications, and estimate preparation for signals.
• Experience leading a team of engineers.
• Experience managing and delivering projects and tasks to meet schedules and budgets.
• Ability to develop scopes of work and prepare man-hour estimates.
• Ability to provide quality control oversight for traffic engineering tasks within the candidate’s expertise.
• Ability to maintain good employee relations and project communication with internal and external clients.
• Active participation in one or more traffic/transportation engineering-related professional organizations, such as ITE, ITS America, WTS, or ASHE.

Nice To Haves

• PTOE certification.
• NCDOT experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and build the North Carolina/Georgia traffic team.
• Partner with technical leads to continue and grow traffic engineering service offerings.
• Collaborate with transportation discipline leaders and project managers.
• Serve as project manager on traffic-focused projects, potentially involving traffic control, signing and marking, ITS, signals, and/or traffic operations and analysis.
• Prepare marketing materials and serve as Traffic Engineering Lead for project pursuits.
• Build strong working relationships with transportation clients in North Carolina and Georgia.
• Manage projects and other project managers in the traffic engineering group.
• Manage task assignments and workloads, and monitor project schedule and budget adherence in the Traffic Engineering group.
• Perform quality control reviews of design plans and documents prepared by staff and other consultants.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior