What We're Looking For

At HNTB, we offer the chance to shape a meaningful career while building communities that impact us all. For over a century, HNTB has provided innovative solutions for some of the nation's largest, most complex infrastructure projects. With our historic growth, this is an exciting time to join our team of dedicated employee-owners.

As a Project Manager II in our Traffic practice, this opportunity involves overseeing the full lifecycle of assigned projects. Key responsibilities include developing project scope, crafting technical sections for proposals and procurement documents, participating in contract negotiations, and ensuring project execution aligns with HNTB’s 4 for 4 performance standards—delivering high-quality work, on time, on budget, and to client satisfaction. You’ll manage budgets, schedules, technical requirements, contractual obligations, and client communications, and provide high-level technical oversight on design specifications, calculations, reports, and plans. This position involves close coordination with internal and external teams to address design issues and solutions effectively.

In addition to project management, this role also offers the optional ability to contribute to an office deliver function. In this capacity, you would champion delivery best practices and lessons learned to help achieve 4 for 4 delivery within the local office, promoting HNTB’s Delivery Standards of Performance and Sophisticated Delivery Approach (SDA). This could include guiding the Life-Cycle Tiger Team process, participating in work planning efforts, conducting Monthly Project Reviews, and ensuring SOP compliance across project management and work plans. The candidate would work closely with the Office Leader and Management Team, supporting strategic objectives for office success and client satisfaction.

Whether or not the candidate chooses to engage in the office delivery component, they will have the opportunity to shape impactful projects and work alongside a talented team committed to make a difference.

What You'll Do:

• Responsible for development of the project scope and fee quotation and assists in the preparation of technical proposals and contracts in accordance with HNTB's Sophisticated Contracting Approach (SCA). Leads or actively participates in client contract scoping and negotiations.

• Serves as the primary client liaison and manages the project team to deliver the scope, schedule and budgets to completion and to the client’s satisfaction. Leads client contract scoping and negotiations.

• Performs technical discipline tasks including analysis, reports, design, specification, and production for assigned projects.

• Implements the firm’s project delivery plan using HNTB's Sophisticated Delivery Approach (SDA) on each project. Leads the development and the execution of the project management plan. Supervises and mentors team to overall project objectives.

• Responsible for/oversees project staffing, including, but not limited to; recruitment, development, retention, and succession of project staff; development of plan for project staff reporting; and support for performance and compensation reviews.

• Partners with Client Service Leaders and pursuit champions to assist with business development, building client relationships, and pursuit efforts for mini-mega and mega projects in accordance with HNTB's Sophisticated Sales Approach (SSA). Works with the project team and marketing resources to prepare appropriate proposal and presentation materials. Leads proposal development and interview presentations for strategic, mini-mega, and mega projects to the client as well as general presentations within the industry and community.

• May be responsible for the recruitment, hiring, development and retention of staff, including development of plan for staff reporting, performance and compensation reviews, and succession.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 10 years of relevant experience

• 2 years of successful management of engineering projects

What You'll Bring:

• Winning, contracting, and successfully delivering 4for4 (on-time, on-budget, quality, client satisfaction) on multi-disciplined projects. Identifying and handling risk and change management with guidance from more experienced staff.

• Leading a team on mid-sized and/or moderately complex projects inside and outside of HNTB using sub-consultants.

• Using system tools to manage, monitor, and deliver mid-sized and/or moderately complex projects.

• Leading with minimal assistance from the Office Management Team in implementing HNTB Sophisticated processes as applicable to the project.

• Serving as the lead interface with the client on moderately complex projects.

• Developing successors to work with same client on other work.

What We Prefer:

• Master’s degree in Engineering

• 12 years relevant experience

• Professional Engineer (PE) certification

• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification

• Excellent verbal and written skills

Additional Information

Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards

Click here to learn more about EOE including disability and vet

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Bedford, NH, South Portland, ME (Portland)

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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:

HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.

Job Type: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full time

Job Category: Engineering Group

ReqID: R-23831