Rail Bridge Project Manager

About the role

This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to lead progress, drive meaningful impact, and leave a legacy of smarter, more connected transportation networks. We are all employee-owners at HDR, which is the foundation of our collaborative culture that connects employees around the world.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the internal lead and primary client point of contact for a variety of bridge projects with Class I railroads, short line railroads, industries, utilities, ports, transit agencies, highway agencies, and other industry clients
• Direct and coordinate work of single or multidiscipline teams throughout the project’s lifecycle (from development and initiation to close-out)
• Responsible for all aspects of complex small to medium projects or routine large projects
• Produce and coordinate several small to medium projects concurrently
• Establish and maintain client relations, and be involved with marketing, contractual, design and production meetings
• Conduct work sessions for deliverable development in conjunction with other staff and stakeholders
• Coordinate staffing and workload through entire project life cycle, and ensure completion of deliverables on schedule
• Track financial aspects of projects, and coordinate and adjust work effort with team to ensure that work is completed within parameters of agreed-to budget and schedule
• Plan, organize, and coordinate with technical, clerical, and subconsultant professionals on multi-disciplinary teams to manage and coordinate workloads throughout entire project
• Implement QA/QC procedures
• Participate in client and stakeholder visits, site visits, field assessments, and construction inspection as needed
• Attend industry events and represent HDR, as needed
• Mentor younger staff and support continued professional development
• Apply structural engineering and detailing techniques to support the development of bid plans for railroad bridges, retaining walls, box culverts and associated railroad structures
• Utilize AREMA bridge engineering design procedures, performing structural calculations, develop structural details, and use specialized software as needed
• Assign, supervise, and review work and/or check design calculations, plans, estimates and specifications produced by junior engineers and Bridge EITs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• 7 years related experience
• A minimum 2 years project management experience
• Professional Engineer (PE) license
• MS Office and MS Project experience is required (Access experience would be plus)
• Demonstrated leadership skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Master of Science in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering
• Structural Engineering (SE) license, or plan to obtain SE
• Experience in technical writing, communicating, and presenting to clients and the public
• Experience with rail, industrial, or transit clients
• Construction inspection or construction management experience
• Railroad bridge inspection experience
• Experience with freight rail or transit rail design
• Familiarity with engineering software packages such as: LARSA, LEAP Bridge Enterprise, FB-MultiPier, LPile, SAP2000, CSiBridge, ADINA, spColumn, and/or LUSAS
• Experience using MicroStation or AutoCAD

Benefits

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement.

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location. (Stated benefits are for full-time regular positions. Temporary and part-time roles eligible for limited benefits.)

Schedule

Full-time

Business Class

Railway Design

Company

HDR

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.