Senior Project Manager - Transportation

Job Description

Job Description

Ardurra is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager - Transportation (PE) to join our growing Transportation team, in O lympia, WA. 

Primary Function: 

Ardurra is seeking an experienced Senior Transportation Project Manager to join our growing Transportation team. This position will lead the planning, management, and delivery of transportation infrastructure projects for public sector clients including State DOTs, counties, municipalities, transit agencies, and local agencies.

The ideal candidate will bring strong project delivery experience, established client relationships, and a proven background leading transportation programs and multidisciplinary teams. This role will focus on project execution, client management, strategic growth, and transportation infrastructure development.

Primary Duties: 

• Serve as Senior Project Manager and primary client contact for transportation projects and programs
• Lead project delivery for roadway, transportation, traffic, and multimodal infrastructure projects
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, and overall project execution and delivery
• Develop and maintain relationships with DOTs, municipalities, transit agencies, and public sector clients
• Support business development activities including pursuits, proposals, interviews, and strategic growth initiatives
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams including transportation planning, traffic engineering, roadway design, drainage, utilities, structures, and environmental services
• Oversee QA/QC efforts and technical delivery across project teams
• Mentor and supervise project managers, engineers, and technical staff
• Support corridor planning, multimodal transportation initiatives, and transportation improvement programs
• Participate in strategic planning and market expansion activities
• Experience leading corridor planning, multimodal transportation programs, and transportation improvement initiatives
• Experience managing traffic engineering efforts including operational studies, safety evaluations, roundabout improvements, and traffic systems coordination
• Experience delivering roadway, interchange, streetscape, transit, and multimodal corridor projects
• Experience supporting Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), maintenance of traffic planning, and transportation operations initiatives
• Existing relationships with DOTs, municipalities, transit agencies, and public sector clients

Education and Experience Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or similar
• Active Professional Engineer (PE) license in Washington State required (or ability to obtain)
• Minimum 12+ years of transportation engineering and project management experience
• Previous experience serving as Project Manager or Senior Project Manager
• Experience managing transportation infrastructure projects for DOT, municipal, county, transit, and public agency clients
• Demonstrated client management, project delivery, and business development experience
• Experience managing project budgets, schedules, staffing plans, contracts, and multidisciplinary teams
• Strong understanding of transportation planning, traffic engineering, roadway design, and project delivery methods
• Strong leadership, communication, presentation, and relationship management skills

Compensation and Benefits:  

Compensation is based on experience and qualifications. The salary range for this position is $150,000 to $200,000. The firm offers a highly competitive salary and fringe benefits, and most importantly, an opportunity for engagement and support from an engineering team that has led major regional transportation projects Washington. 

Why Ardurra?

While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun. We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home.
Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

Ardurra does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agency Agreement, Ardurra will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. If a resume or candidate is submitted to any hiring manager without a previously signed agreement, Ardurra reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. These candidates will be considered property of Ardurra. We’re not currently looking to add any more agencies to our list of approved vendors, so please do not contact any of our managers or recruitment team with sales calls or details of your candidates.

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