# Senior Civil Highway Project Manager

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Minneapolis, MN
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is growing its Minneapolis, MN office and is seeking a highly experienced and motivated candidate for our Senior Civil Highway Project Manager position.

This position will be critical to delivering infrastructure solutions across Minnesota, with a focus on Minnesota county and Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) projects, while ensuring technical excellence and high-quality deliverables.

The successful candidate will have a comprehensive range of skills, including project management and roadway design experience related to preliminary and final highway design.

**Responsibilities**

- Support and mentor local staff, emphasizing Minnesota standards, career development, and advancement of technical skills.

- Collaborate with engineers, planners, other professionals, and infrastructure authorities on federally, state-, regionally, and locally funded improvement projects.

- Develop a personal network and pursue proposal and business development opportunities.

- Interact effectively with others to develop high-quality technical and professional deliverables for projects and proposals.

- Inspire, motivate, and promote the best of WSP to our clients and communities, ensuring strong engagement and team morale.

- Participate in client engagement, build a personal network for yourself and WSP staff, and lead assigned client care programs.

- Drive the performance of the business to strategically grow our market share and ensure WSP is a preferred provider of engineering services.

- Determine client requirements and lead and contribute to the development of proposals, scopes, schedules, and budgets.

- Identify cross-business-line opportunities through discussions with industry partners and clients, focusing on Minnesota counties.

- Lead the identification of potential projects by maintaining familiarity with multiple county capital improvement programs (CIPs) and positioning WSP for future requests for proposals (RFPs).

- Collaborate with WSP’s marketing team to deliver high-quality proposals for a variety of work types.

- Apply advanced civil engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements throughout complex infrastructure and transportation projects, including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction, and operations.

- Manage design projects, studies, and tasks.

- Lead the preparation of preliminary and final design plans, cost estimates, and special provisions while developing staff capabilities in these areas.

- Work independently with minimal oversight and provide guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC procedures.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.

- 15+ years of post-education experience in engineering and civil design.

- A minimum of 10 years of verifiable professional project management experience.

- Professional Engineer registration in the State of Minnesota or the ability to obtain registration within six months.

- Proven experience with Minnesota county and MnDOT projects.

- Background in Bentley OpenRoads Designer software.

- Ability to think strategically and creatively and develop approaches to challenging projects.

- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to express intricate ideas clearly and professionally to engineering and non-engineering audiences.

- Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively, persuasively, and tactfully with clients, regulators, project managers, and employees at all levels of the organization.

- Ability to work independently and provide guidance and leadership to mid- and senior-level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC procedures.

## Skills

### Required
- civil engineering
- project management
- roadway design
- Bentley OpenRoads Designer

### Nice to have
- infrastructure planning and design
- corridor studies
- rehabilitation projects
- county, MnDOT, and State Aid design criteria

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