Program Director, Transportation Infrastructure

About the role

Pursue a career at Parsons where you can lead, grow, and deliver major transportation programs and pursuits across the Midwest and broader U.S. market. This role is ideal for a senior transportation leader with deep public-sector infrastructure experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support major transportation infrastructure programs, projects, and pursuits for public-sector clients.
• Serve as a senior client-facing leader with state DOTs, toll agencies, municipalities, regional transportation agencies, and other infrastructure owners.
• Identify, position, and capture new transportation opportunities before and during formal procurement.
• Translate client goals, evaluation criteria, funding priorities, and delivery constraints into winning pursuit strategies and executable project approaches.
• Advise on delivery strategy, project packaging, risk allocation, procurement approach, phasing, stakeholder considerations, and market readiness.
• Manage or support large-scale transportation programs involving planning, preliminary engineering, final design, environmental coordination, construction support, program management, and/or owner advisory services.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams across roadway, bridge, traffic, drainage, environmental, structures, utilities, right-of-way, construction, project controls, and specialty technical disciplines.
• Develop and review scopes of work, budgets, schedules, staffing plans, quality plans, risk registers, and project execution strategies.
• Monitor project performance, financial progress, schedule status, resource needs, and client satisfaction.
• Collaborate with operations, business development, proposal, estimating, legal, risk, and technical leadership to advance strategic pursuits.
• Represent Parsons in client meetings, industry forums, partner discussions, stakeholder briefings, and pursuit interviews.
• Support growth of Parsons’ transportation practice by mentoring staff, strengthening delivery teams, identifying new market opportunities, and helping align resources with client needs.
• Promote technical excellence, quality, innovation, safety, sustainability, resiliency, and commercial discipline across transportation assignments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Construction Management, Planning, Public Administration, Business, or a related technical or management field.
• 20+ years of progressive experience in transportation infrastructure, engineering, program management, public-sector capital delivery, alternative project delivery or related consulting services.
• Demonstrated experience leading or advising on major road, highway, bridge, urban corridor, multimodal, tolling, or transportation infrastructure programs.
• Strong understanding of public-sector project development, procurement, funding, stakeholder coordination, risk management, and capital program execution.
• Proven ability to work effectively with state DOTs, toll agencies, municipalities, regional agencies, contractors, engineering consultants, and industry partners.
• Experience developing or supporting pursuit strategies, statements of qualifications, proposals, interviews, teaming strategies, and client capture plans.
• Ability to evaluate client priorities and translate them into clear technical, commercial, and delivery strategies.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing multidisciplinary teams, coordinating across offices, and mobilizing resources to meet project and pursuit needs.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong business and commercial acumen, including awareness of scope, schedule, budget, risk, profitability, and client value.
• Professional Engineer registration is preferred, or the ability to demonstrate equivalent executive-level transportation infrastructure leadership experience.

Desired Skills

• Experience working with or for a public transportation owner, state DOT, toll agency, or major infrastructure program.
• Experience shaping or advising on transportation procurement strategies, project packaging, delivery models, risk allocation, or industry engagement.
• Familiarity with a range of delivery methods, including design-bid-build, program management, construction management, CM/GC, progressive delivery, P3, and design-build, with emphasis on selecting the right delivery approach for the client and project.
• Ability to identify early-stage opportunities and position Parsons before formal RFQ/RFP release.
• Experience working with executive leadership, elected officials, agency staff, industry associations, contractors, consultants, and public stakeholders.
• Background in major urban corridors, complex interchanges, multimodal transportation, waterfront or constrained corridors, large capital programs, or high-visibility public infrastructure initiatives.
• A practical, hands-on leadership style with the ability to operate as a seller-doer, trusted advisor, strategist, and project leader.
• Ability to mentor emerging leaders and help grow a high-performing transportation practice.