Senior Project Manager, Design Build Manager

ABOUT THE POSITION

VHB has an immediate opening for a Senior Project Manager-Design Build Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic team and lead complex transportation projects while playing an important role in expanding and shaping the group. We are looking for someone with a blend of project management skills, technical expertise, and innovative thinking.

Responsibilities

Serve as Senior Project Manager for clients, manage detailed phases of engineering design work of moderate to significant size and complexity
• Manage large multi-disciplinary highway design projects,
• Successfully manage alternative delivery projects (Design-Build, PPP, etc.)
• Develop and manage client relationships
• Provide technical and professional development of staff
• Monitor project financial performance
• Serve as project executive for major projects
• Attend and lead meetings with clients, regulatory agencies, and stakeholders to establish their needs and discuss/navigate transportation design/permitting challenges
• Develop scopes and amendments associated with transportation design projects
• Participate in professional organizations that promote relationships with clients and teaming partners
• Develop new project opportunities, and prepare and manage proposal submissions
• Assist with the production and delivering transportation projects through the construction administration phase
• Pre-design project planning and financial management
• Develop technical design and specification documents

Skills and Attributes

• Strong leadership skills and a collaborative work ethic
• Excels working in a team environment
• Substantial client management, technical and project management experience
• Ability to manage a multidisciplinary team of professionals
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Advanced knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures in highway engineering
• Advanced knowledge of state regulations governing transportation design
• Software: MicroStation Open Roads Designer, Civil3D a plus

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering required
• 15+ years of experience in professional transportation engineering
• Project management experience delivering Design-Build projects
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required

We are VHB! We're an inspired and innovative team of engineers, scientists, planners, and designers who partner with clients in the transportation, real estate, institutional, and energy industries, as well as federal, state, and local governments. Our work helps improve mobility, enhance communities, and contribute to economic vitality. We do this while balancing development and infrastructure needs with stewardship of our environment.

Our people make us great! VHB provides a differentiating employee experience, which includes:

• Diverse and inclusive culture of collaboration and innovation
• Opportunity to work on complex, transformational projects
• Community and social responsibility as sustainable stewards
• Focus on learning, development, and career growth
• Best-in-class benefits, including flexible, hybrid workplace

We are consistently rated one of the top AEC firms to work for across our 30+ offices on the East Coast. We're growing, and we hope you'll join us!

VHB is a proud Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. Since our founding, we have intentionally fostered a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion-supported by deep-rooted core values, one of which is diversity. All individuals receive consideration for employment based on their qualifications without discrimination for race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, pregnancy, marital status, or any other basis protected by law.