Transportation Infrastructure Program Manager

Program Manager

We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead the delivery of a major transportation infrastructure program in the Seattle region. The ideal candidate is a strategic and collaborative leader with extensive experience delivering complex rail, transit, and heavy civil infrastructure projects. This individual will bring strong technical expertise, sound judgment, and the ability to align multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to achieve successful project outcomes.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and strategic direction for a complex transportation infrastructure program.
• Oversee design-phase activities, including final design review, design coordination, constructability reviews, and risk management.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and coordinate across engineering, construction, environmental, commercial, and project controls functions.
• Manage program risks, budgets, schedules, governance, and performance reporting.
• Oversee utility coordination, permitting activities, and third-party agreements.
• Build and maintain relationships with public agencies, regulatory bodies, utilities, community stakeholders, and tribal representatives.
• Drive issue resolution, stakeholder alignment, and informed decision-making throughout project delivery.
• Promote a culture of safety, collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence.

Candidate Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience delivering major transportation, rail, transit, heavy civil, highway, bridge, or other public infrastructure programs.
• 8+ years in Project Manager, Program Manager, Construction Manager, or similar leadership roles.
• Advanced degree and/or PE, PMP, CCM, or other relevant professional certification preferred.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams through planning, design, stakeholder engagement, and project delivery.
• Strong background overseeing final design, design reviews, constructability reviews, design coordination, and program-level risk management.
• Significant rail and transit experience, with elevated guideway experience strongly preferred.
• Experience managing permitting, utility coordination, third-party agreements, and complex stakeholder environments.
• Proven ability to work effectively with public agencies, community groups, utilities, regulatory organizations, and tribal nations.
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to balance technical, commercial, regulatory, political, and community considerations.

Benefits & Reward

At Mott MacDonald, our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, providing them with a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses. We provide a comprehensive benefit package that includes 401k, medical, dental and vision insurance, short-term/long-term disability, paid holidays, PTO, parental leave, and company paid life insurance.

Individual pay is determined based on several factors such as work location, education, experience, and unique skills.

The expected salary for this position is $185,000 - $226,000

Collaboration at Our Core At Mott MacDonald, we believe great ideas happen when we're together. Our hybrid approach centers on an in-office culture, with most of your time spent collaborating face-to-face and a minimum of three days per week in the office. We balance flexibility with connection, so you and your manager can choose how to meet client, team, and personal commitments.

Equal opportunity is the law.

We seek to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.