South Carolina Pre-Construction Manager / Senior Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of transportation projects through all phases of pre-construction, including project development, environmental review, preliminary engineering, final design, right-of-way, utility coordination, permitting, procurement, and transition to construction.
• Serve as Project Manager on large, complex, and multidisciplinary assignments.
• Develop and manage project execution plans defining scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality requirements, risk-management procedures, communication protocols, and client expectations.
• Plan, organize, coordinate, and control project activities in accordance with STV policies, contractual requirements, applicable regulations, and established project-management procedures.
• Direct multidisciplinary teams that may include roadway, bridge, traffic, drainage, environmental, utility, right-of-way, geotechnical, survey, planning, and public involvement professionals.
• Carefully coordinate subconsultants, teaming partners, contractors, public agencies, utilities, and other project stakeholders.
• Maintain project financial performance, labor utilization, earned value, invoicing, cash flow, schedule progress, change management, and overall project profitability.
• Identify project risks, constraints, and emerging issues and implement timely corrective actions.
• Review project contracts, amendments, scopes of work, fee proposals, schedules, and terms and conditions.
• Ensure deliverables are technically sound, constructible, properly coordinated, and completed in accordance with client requirements.
• Lead project reviews, design workshops, constructability reviews, risk assessments, value-engineering exercises, and project-management meetings.

Operational Leadership

• Support the operational management of STV’s South Carolina transportation practice and assist leadership in achieving short- and long-term business objectives.
• Improve project-delivery effectiveness and efficiency through consistent, integrated, and scalable management processes across a statewide project portfolio.
• Promote coordination and communication among technical disciplines, project teams, offices, and regional business units.
• Participate in the development and implementation of operational strategies, policies, procedures, annual plans, staffing plans, and budgets.
• Monitor project and portfolio performance and provide management reporting regarding backlog, revenue, profitability, staffing, utilization, schedule, risk, A/R, and quality.
• Lead weekly meetings to identify variances in the project portfolio, tracking and implementing corrective actions on a weekly basis.
• Identify operational trends, resource constraints, and performance issues and recommend appropriate management actions.
• Serve as a liaison between project teams, technical leadership, business leadership, finance, human resources, legal, contracts, quality, and other corporate support functions.
• Support workload forecasting, staff allocation, recruiting, succession planning, and organizational development.
• Provide leadership and consulting support on matters related to business structure, growth, project delivery, and operational performance.

Client and Stakeholder Leadership

• Serve as a senior representative of STV with transportation agencies, municipalities, counties, contractors, consultants, utilities, and other external stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain trusted relationships with key client representatives, agency officials, teaming partners, and industry professionals.
• Lead client meetings, executive briefings, negotiations, project reviews, workshops, and issue-resolution discussions.
• Understand client goals, funding constraints, procurement requirements, policies, and decision-making processes.
• Negotiate scopes of work, fees, schedules, contract terms, amendments, and other critical project matters in coordination with STV senior leadership.
• Resolve complex project and contractual issues requiring sound judgment, persuasion, diplomacy, and negotiation.
• Promote client satisfaction through responsiveness, technical excellence, transparency, and reliable project delivery.
• Lead or contribute to proposals, statements of qualifications, technical approaches, fee estimates, presentations, and interviews.
• Support negotiation of teaming agreements, subconsultant agreements, scopes, fees, and contract terms.
• Provide technical and operational insight to position STV for future work.
• Participate in leadership positions in various industry professional organizations.

Staff Leadership and Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop assistant project managers, engineers, technical specialists, and other project staff.
• Provide clear expectations, performance feedback, coaching, and professional-development opportunities.
• Aid in recruiting, selecting, onboarding, supervising, evaluating, and retaining qualified personnel.
• Support the development of future project managers, technical leaders, and business leaders.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, operational discipline, client service, safety, and quality.

Quality, Compliance, and Risk Management

• Ensure project teams comply with applicable federal, state, and local requirements, including transportation-agency standards and permitting requirements.
• Ensure adherence to STV’s quality-management program, project-management procedures, safety requirements, and corporate policies.
• Coordinate quality-control and quality-assurance reviews and ensure comments are resolved before submission.
• Identify contractual, financial, technical, schedule, safety, and reputational risks and elevate significant issues to leadership.
• Intervene promptly when project performance, quality, compliance, or client-service concerns arise.
• Maintain high technical, professional, ethical, and operational standards across assigned projects and responsibilities.