Senior Trail Civil Engineer/ Project Manager

About the role

Join an exceptional team focused on expanding SEH’s trail, outdoor recreation, and active transportation design services across the West Region and beyond. This position may be based in Colorado, Arizona, or another strategic SEH location, with hybrid or remote flexibility considered for the right candidate.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage trail, greenway, bike/pedestrian, outdoor recreation, and multimodal transportation projects from early visioning and planning through design, permitting, construction documents, and implementation.
• Develop context-sensitive, sustainable, and constructible trail solutions that balance user experience, environmental stewardship, accessibility, durability, cost, and long-term maintenance.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to public agencies, parks and recreation departments, land managers, tribal communities, conservancy organizations, and community partners.
• Collaborate with engineers, planners, landscape architects, environmental scientists, surveyors, construction professionals, and communication specialists to deliver integrated recreation and mobility projects.
• Support business development through client relationship building, pursuit strategy, proposal development, interviews, and identification of new trail and outdoor recreation opportunities.
• Mentor and develop junior staff while helping grow SEH’s technical depth and market presence in trail planning, design, and project delivery.

Requirements

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture, civil engineering, planning, environmental design, recreation planning, or a closely related field.
• Professional licensure or certification such as PLA, PE, AICP, PMP, or similar credential, or the ability to obtain licensure/certification where applicable.
• Significant experience leading trail, greenway, bike/pedestrian, outdoor recreation, or active transportation projects.
• Demonstrated project management experience, including scope, schedule, budget, quality, client communication, and consultant coordination responsibilities.
• Strong technical understanding of trail planning and design, including alignment development, grading, drainage, accessibility, constructability, permitting, cost estimating, and construction documentation.
• Experience working with public-sector clients, land management agencies, community stakeholders, and multidisciplinary project teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• A minimum of ten (10) or more years of experience in trail planning, trail design, outdoor recreation, active transportation, parks, open space, or related public infrastructure projects.
• A minimum of five (5) years of project management experience leading multidisciplinary trail, recreation, civil, or transportation projects.
• Experience with natural-surface trails, paved shared-use paths, mountain bike facilities, river corridors, trailheads, parks, wayfinding, accessibility improvements, and/or outdoor recreation systems.
• Knowledge of sustainable trail design, erosion control, stormwater management, environmental permitting, public engagement, and construction-phase services.
• Demonstrated ability to develop client relationships, identify new business opportunities, support proposals, and help win work in the trail and outdoor recreation market.
• Familiarity with Colorado, Arizona, Mountain West, or other regional trail and recreation markets, including municipal, county, state, federal, nonprofit, and land management clients.
• Ability to travel as needed for client meetings, public engagement, site assessments, field reviews, conferences, and project delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture, civil engineering, planning, environmental design, recreation planning, or a closely related field.
• Professional licensure or certification such as PLA, PE, AICP, PMP, or similar credential, or the ability to obtain licensure/certification where applicable.
• Significant experience leading trail, greenway, bike/pedestrian, outdoor recreation, or active transportation projects.
• Demonstrated project management experience, including scope, schedule, budget, quality, client communication, and consultant coordination responsibilities.
• Strong technical understanding of trail planning and design, including alignment development, grading, drainage, accessibility, constructability, permitting, cost estimating, and construction documentation.
• Experience working with public-sector clients, land management agencies, community stakeholders, and multidisciplinary project teams.

Skills

• Project management experience.
• Technical understanding of trail planning and design.
• Client relationship building and proposal development.
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with natural-surface trails, paved shared-use paths, mountain bike facilities, river corridors, trailheads, parks, wayfinding, accessibility improvements, and/or outdoor recreation systems.
• Knowledge of sustainable trail design, erosion control, stormwater management, environmental permitting, public engagement, and construction-phase services.
• Experience with public-sector clients, land management agencies, community stakeholders, and multidisciplinary project teams.

Benefits

This opportunity offers a competitive base salary in the range of $120,000 to $150,000 based on skill set and experience. SEH also provides:

• Flexible holiday schedule enabling individuals to tailor their festivities.
• Paid family leave to care for loved ones, whether family by birth or family by choice.

Pay

Base compensation is expected to be in the range of $120,000 and $150,000 based on skill set and experience.

Schedule

This position may be based in Colorado, Arizona, or another strategic SEH location, with hybrid or remote flexibility considered for the right candidate.

SEH

SEH is an employee-owned engineering, architectural, planning, and environmental company, offering a wide variety of services. We've been helping government, industrial, and commercial clients find solutions to complex challenges since 1927. Our 900+ employee-owners across the US unite behind our core purpose of Building a Better World for All of Us®.

Notice to Third Party Agencies

SEH does not accept unsolicited resumes from third party recruiting firms. Absent a signed Service Agreement by SEH’s Talent Director, SEH reserves the right to pursue and hire these candidates without financial obligation to recruiters or agencies.

Equal Opportunity Employer

SEH is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or veteran status. We take affirmative action to ensure that all employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities.