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Senior SUE Project Manager, you will lead SUE project delivery, client coordination, staff development, budgeting, and business development for transportation, roadway, municipal, and infrastructure projects across Texas. Serving as a senior representative of ESP, you will manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client expectations while coordinating with utility owners, public agencies, consultants, contractors, and right-of-way stakeholders from planning through construction. This is an opportunity for an experienced SUE leader to further their career within a dynamic and growing Engineering, Surveying and Planning firm.
Responsibilities:- Lead SUE project delivery for roadway, drainage, bridge, transit, municipal, and civil infrastructure projects throughout Texas.
- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, staffing plans, deliverables, and client expectations.
- Develop and manage project budgets, monitor financial performance, and coordinate corrective action when budget, schedule, or staffing risks arise.
- Support marketing and business development, including client relationship development, pursuit strategy, proposal input, scope development, level-of-effort estimates, and presentations.
- Train, mentor, and develop SUE staff in field procedures, documentation standards, safety awareness, client communication, and quality control.
- Review plans, utility records, as-builts, survey data, and SUE deliverables to identify potential utility conflicts and guide investigation strategies.
- Coordinate with utility owners, TxDOT, local governments, engineers, right-of-way staff, environmental teams, contractors, and other stakeholders.
- Facilitate SUE and utility coordination meetings, document action items, maintain utility status reports, and track commitments through resolution.
- Oversee utility conflict analysis, investigation planning, test hole coordination, utility mapping, relocation support, cost estimates, reimbursement documentation, utility agreements, and permitting.
- Prepare, submit, track, and review RULIS applications and related documentation to support utility permitting, relocation, and project clearance.
- Monitor SUE production and utility relocation coordination during design and construction, escalating schedule or coordination issues as needed.
- Interpret and apply Texas utility accommodation requirements, TxDOT utility coordination procedures, right-of-way processes, and federal, state, and local requirements.
- Learn and apply SUE, utility coordination, and agency criteria for other states as ESP's market grows.
- Prepare professional correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, exhibits, conflict matrices, and proposals.
- Support quality control of SUE deliverables and promote consistent standards across project teams.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:- 8+ years of experience in SUE, utility coordination, utility engineering, right-of-way, roadway design, construction coordination, or related infrastructure project delivery required.
- High school diploma or GED required; associate or bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, planning, geography, geomatics, business, or a related technical field preferred.
- Demonstrated experience managing SUE projects, including scope, schedule, budget, staffing, client coordination, deliverable review, and quality control.
- Experience managing multi-disciplinary SUE teams, coordinating field crews, and balancing workload across multiple active projects.
- Working knowledge of SUE Quality Levels A through D, utility designation, test hole coordination, utility mapping, conflict identification, utility permitting, and right-of-way coordination.
- Experience developing and tracking project budgets, including level-of-effort estimates, labor planning, and financial performance monitoring.
- Experience supporting business development, including proposal preparation, scope narratives, fee development, client meetings, and pursuit strategy.
- Experience training and mentoring technical staff in SUE procedures, documentation, safety awareness, and client service.
- Experience preparing, submitting, tracking, and reviewing RULIS applications.
- Experience supporting TxDOT transportation projects, with familiarity with TxDOT utility coordination milestones, utility adjustment processes, and Texas Administrative Code requirements for utility accommodation and right-of-way use.
- Ability to read, interpret, and redline civil construction plans, utility plans, roadway schematics, and survey information; CADD experience for plan review a plus.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Bentley View, Bluebeam, Adobe Acrobat Pro, and KMZ/KML development for map-based utility exhibits.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to lead meetings and represent ESP professionally with clients and project partners.
- Valid driver's license and ability to travel to project sites, client meetings, and staff training as needed.
- Candidate must be able to pass a drug screen, background check, and have a satisfactory driving record in accordance with the company's driving (MVR) policy.
Corporate Information:ESP is a multi-discipline engineering design and consulting firm providing our clients with civil engineering, surveying, planning/landscape architecture, geosciences, environmental, subsurface utility engineering, and construction engineering inspection.
Through years of dedicated service to our clients, ESP has received a designation of 186 on the 2026 ENR Top 500 Design Firm rankings. For the firm's primary territory, the ENR Texas & Southeast Top Design Firms, ESP received a 2026 ranking of 53.
ESP offers an excellent employee benefits package including:
- Competitive compensation with yearly performance reviews and discretionary annual bonuses
- 401(k) (Traditional & Roth plans) with a guaranteed employer match of 100% up to the first 3% and 50% on the next 2% (eligibility after 60 days)
- PTO (Paid Time Off) & 10 Paid Holidays
- VTO (Volunteer Time Off) of 4 hours each year (prorated during first year based on hire date)
- Tiered Health, Vision & Dental Insurance Options (eligibility after 30 days)
- Behavioral Medicine through Teladoc
- Short-Term Disability Insurance (Employer paid)
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Pet Insurance
- Education Reimbursement Opportunities
- Flexible and Dependent Benefits Plan
- Referral Bonuses
