CEI Section Manager

Lead Field Excellence as a CEI Section Manager - Deliver, Safeguard, and Advance

Do you excel at managing complex transportation projects and leading high-performing teams to successful outcomes? Are you motivated by coordinating stakeholders, guiding project execution, and ensuring infrastructure programs are delivered with precision, accountability, and quality?

CHA Consulting, Inc. is seeking a CEI Section Manager to join our Construction Inspection Team in Columbia, SC, where you'll oversee the planning, coordination, and delivery of roadway, bridge, and transportation infrastructure projects. In this role, you'll provide leadership across project teams, manage client relationships, and ensure construction activities align with contract requirements, regulatory standards, and project objectives-supporting the safe and efficient movement of people and goods.

Organize, direct, and coordinate activities related to transportation construction inspection initiatives, including highways, roadways, and bridge improvements, ensuring compliance with plans, specifications, and governing standards
• Collaborate with transportation team leadership to manage and motivate a high-performing group of technical professionals, ensuring excellence in project delivery and achieving team utilization goals
• Effectively manage project budgets, scope, and schedules to deliver successful outcomes for critical construction inspection initiatives
• Engage with clients, regulatory agencies, and stakeholders to ensure project requirements are met and expectations are exceeded throughout each phase

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, science, planning, engineering management, or a related field required
• Minimum of 7 years of industry experience required; minimum of 4 years of project management experience required
• Previous project or team management experience preferred
• Demonstrated experience managing client relationships, understanding contract requirements, and overseeing multiple concurrent projects
• Experience with Microsoft Office required; knowledge of MS Project, Primavera P6, or Deltek Vision preferred
• Excellent communication, problemsolving, project financial management, and leadership skills
• Ability to travel as needed and work collaboratively with technical teams
• Consulting experience highly preferred
• Strategic thinker with the ability to guide and motivate team activity and resolve issues with urgency
• Ability to demonstrate technical proficiency and manage relationships across the company
• PMP, PE or equivalent professional license preferred

• Make a direct impact on critical infrastructure-helping deliver safe, reliable transportation systems that connect and strengthen communities [chasolutions.com]
• Advance your career within a collaborative, field-focused team committed to quality, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Enjoy a dynamic work environment with meaningful project exposure and opportunities for professional growth

Curious about the impactful work our Construction Inspection team is doing? Discover our innovative projects and commitment to sustainable solutions by visiting: chasolutions.com/solutions/transportation/.

$125,000 - $150,000

Salary is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, training, and fair market evaluation based on industry standards.

At CHA, we work every day to create solutions, help people, and improve our world, committed to creating and fostering excellence in our diverse and highly talented teams. Our teams continually strive to find better ways - always searching, never settling - to achieve extraordinary results. Our values around hiring, training, and community engagement reflect a company culture that is inclusive and forward leaning, always pushing the limits of what is possible.

We as an organization celebrate the values of inclusion and equality, and advocate for the full participation of all people in an environment free of discrimination. To support these values, we invite all qualified applicants to be considered for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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