GHD Group

Transportation/Bridge Project Manager

GHD Group$124K — $206K *
Transportation
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or a similar field.
  • Minimum 10+ years experience in project management and transportation engineering.
  • Professional Engineer (PE) license in the State of California required.
  • Experience managing complex client relationships.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead project delivery and generate sales proposals.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and lead design and delivery of transportation projects.
  • Develop sales and marketing proposals and materials.
  • Drive regional strategy for transportation growth.
  • Oversee portfolio of projects and report to senior management.
  • Manage key client relationships with guidance.
  • Identify and implement improvements in business practices.
  • Foster a collaborative culture of innovation across teams.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model offering flexibility and in-office collaboration.
  • Strong emphasis on teamwork, integrity, and respect in workplace culture.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Encouragement of diversity and individual achievement.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Bring your curiosity and determination to make a positive impact on the future of transportation in the communities you live and work!

The US West Region is looking for a Project Manager-Transportation/Bridges to join our GHD's fast-growing bridge engineering practice. We are seeking an entrepreneurial and versatile candidate to help us take our practice to the next level in project delivery, sales, and engineering excellence for bridge projects in the US West Region. Job duties will include management and design of some of our most exciting transportation projects, development of our sales and marketing materials and proposals, and integrating with multi-disciplinary and global teams across our company. This position can be located in any of our offices in Ca.

Through a broad network of clients, GHD has exposure to exciting transportation projects through federal, state, regional, county, and municipal agencies and private sectors. This is a unique opportunity to join a large, well-established organization with a culture that promotes teamwork, integrity, and respect. You will work closely with our highly skilled multi-disciplinary teams throughout the organization and our clients to efficiently deliver projects and provide high value consultancy services.

Our Hybrid Work Model Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in office, three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.

Key responsibilities include:
  • Management & Design of exciting transportation projects
  • Development of sales &marketing proposals and materials
  • Leadership of regional transportation growth strategy
  • Project Management: Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.
  • Client & Customer Management (External): Manage important client relationships with guidance from senior colleagues, or oversee relationship management with a group of more transactional clients and customers.
  • Improvement/Innovation: Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organization's change management program. Involves working with guidance from senior colleagues.
  • Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units, such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.
  • Engineering Solutions Design: Design engineering solutions and the associated validation process to enable the realization of a design brief (for example, in terms of functionality, performance, aesthetics, and cost) that conforms to organizational and/or regulatory standards.
  • Engineering Standards Specification: Analyze information, draft engineering standards and specifications, and evaluate the effectiveness of those standards within own engineering discipline to ensure work of the required quality is delivered and to inform engineering work in the organization and/or of its suppliers, contractors, and consultants.
  • Knowledge Management: Develop processes, create best practices, set up case studies, and deliver internal knowledge-sharing sessions to capture and share knowledge among colleagues on project/program outcomes and innovative practices in a particular area of expertise and to support the practice.
  • Technical Developments Recommendation: Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the website/portal/application software and supporting infrastructure to better meet users' needs.
  • Professional Supervision: Lead and oversee the provision of professional supervision to ensure that there is effective professional supervision that supports practitioners' professional development and embeds reflective practice.
  • Health, Safety, and Environment: Monitor and review performance against health, safety, and environment (HSE) key performance indicators (KPIs) and patterns of behavior within the area of responsibility. Take action to improve performance and to resolve noncompliance with the organization's HSE policies, procedures, and mandatory instructions.

Education
  • Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or similar

Experience
  • Minimum 10+ years experience
  • PE in State of CA required

As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status or veteran status.

Salary Range $124,000- $206,000

#LI-KM1

About Us

Take on some of the world's toughest challenges - with GHD supporting you every step of the way.
We'll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact.

See where your commitment could take you with GHD.

Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don't just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.

That's why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today.

See where your commitment could take you.
That's the #PowerOfCommitment

Who we are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.
The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It's what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity's most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.

About GHD Group

GHD Group is a global engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting firm that provides services to clients in the water, energy, environment, property and buildings, and transportation sectors. The company was founded in 1928 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. GHD has more than 10,000 employees in over 200 offices worldwide, and it operates in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America. The company's services include engineering design, project management, asset management, environmental consulting, and digital services. GHD's clients include governments, private companies, and non-profit organizations, and its projects range from small-scale local initiatives to large-scale international infrastructure projects.
Learn more about GHD Group
Size
10,000 employees
Industry

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at GHD Group

More Transportation Jobs

Find similar Transportation/Bridge Project Manager jobs: