What Your Day Will Look Like:
As a Transportation Design-Build Manager, you will lead the delivery of complex transportation infrastructure projects from pursuit and design through construction and closeout. Acting as the primary connection between design teams, construction personnel, clients, and stakeholders, you'll ensure projects remain aligned with scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
On a daily basis, you'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to review project progress, resolve technical and operational challenges, manage risks, and drive key milestones forward. You'll facilitate coordination meetings, oversee project performance, and work closely with transportation agencies and clients to provide updates, address concerns, and maintain strong partnerships.
You'll also support business growth by contributing to project pursuits, proposal development, and strategic planning efforts. As projects advance into construction, you'll help ensure design intent, constructability, and contract requirements are effectively executed while mentoring team members and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, safety, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Do:
- Lead transportation design-build projects through planning, design, procurement, construction, and project closeout phases.
- Manage multidisciplinary teams consisting of engineers, designers, constructors, subconsultants, and specialty contractors.
- Serve as the primary client contact, fostering strong relationships with transportation agencies, municipalities, and stakeholders.
- Oversee project scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk management activities.
- Direct design integration efforts to ensure constructability, efficiency, and alignment with project objectives.
- Partner with construction leadership to identify innovative solutions that reduce cost, accelerate schedules, and improve project delivery.
- Facilitate coordination meetings and provide leadership throughout project execution.
- Monitor project performance metrics and implement corrective actions when necessary to achieve project goals.
- Lead project pursuit activities, including proposal development, technical approaches, staffing plans, and interview presentations.
- Review contracts and manage contractual compliance, change orders, and claims avoidance strategies.
- Ensure adherence to company quality standards, transportation agency requirements, and industry best practices.
- Support mentoring, coaching, and professional development of project managers, design managers, and technical staff.
- Collaborate with business development leaders to identify and capture new transportation design-build opportunities.
- Promote a strong culture of safety, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement across project teams.
- Provide executive-level reporting on project status, financial performance, risks, and key milestones.
What You'll Need:
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, or a related field.
- 15+ years of progressive experience delivering transportation infrastructure projects, including significant design-build experience.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license
- Proven experience managing large-scale highway, roadway, bridge, transit, or transportation infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of design-build project delivery methods, contract requirements, and transportation agency processes.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams through all phases of project execution.
- Knowledge of project controls, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and quality management practices.
- Demonstrated success managing client relationships and working directly with DOTs, municipalities, and public-sector agencies.
- Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to balance technical, operational, and financial aspects of complex projects.
- Proficiency with project management and scheduling software platforms.
- Ability to travel as required to client sites, project locations, and business meetings.
What Benefits You’ll Enjoy:We invest in us. Because our team members go above, below, and beyond the surface to care for our communities (inside and out), we do our best to take care of you by providing a comprehensive benefits package! Eligibility for some of the benefits outlined below is based on full-time work status; part-time and contingent positions are only eligible based on hours worked. If you have questions, contact [email protected]
- Career Growth & Development – Tuition reimbursement program, paid professional training, major license achievement bonus, extensive on-demand learning center, and paid professional memberships.
- Work-Life Alignment – Industry-competitive PTO, seven paid holidays and two floating holidays, flexible work schedules, paid parental leave, and eligibility for hybrid and remote work options for some employees based on role responsibilities.
- Wellness – Medical, dental and vision insurance, employee assistance program, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and HSA and FSA options.
- Life – Employer-paid STD and LTD, employer-paid term life insurance, and retirement 401(k) with company match.
- Community – Quarterly social events, paid group volunteering events, and employee networks and groups.
How Your Career Will Grow:We know career growth is not always linear or streamlined—it's often dynamic. You may want to explore a management track, try a new technical track, or move laterally to reposition your skills and talents. No matter what level you join us at or how you want to shape your career, we want Consor to be a place where you can learn and grow.
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