Transportation Project Manager (Nashville)

About the role

We are looking for a Transportation Project Manager who can lead multidisciplinary project teams, develop and monitor project schedules and budgets, and effectively communicate and maintain complete and accurate documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary Project Teams.
• Develop, monitor, and maintain project schedules and budgets to ensure the development process and deliverables meet or exceed standards.
• Proactively lead internal and external Project Team members to achieve project milestones using project management tools and software that determine project priorities and critical paths.
• Effectively coordinate with other disciplines within client environment to mitigate constructability and maintenance concerns and proactively address risk factors.
• Manage change by effectively communicating and maintaining complete and accurate documentation to document project decisions and efficiently resolve questions as projects progress.
• Possibly partner with other functional areas to understand multidisciplinary project goals, prioritization, and opportunities for innovation.
• Identify potential trade-offs and best practices and coordinate with other technical disciplines to reduce, eliminate, or lessen impacts.
• Implement Client's Quality Assurance Process to ensure a direct relationship between quality and work outcomes.
• Carefully coordinate quality control and quality assurance tasks with the Project Team members and the Quality Team to ensure compliance with standards and project requirements.
• Perform tasks in alignment with roles and responsibilities for the Project Manager as listed in the Project Delivery Network (PDN) to maintain the project scope in alignment with the goals of asset management and approved project commitments.

Requirements

• Professional Engineer (PE) license or PMP certification.
• Project Management Experience.
• DOT Experience.
• 3-4 days a week at client office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field.
• 7 years related experience.
• A minimum of 2 years project management experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Must have the ability to interact with various design teams.
• Excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills.

Skills

An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.

Benefits

We are all employee-owners at HDR, which is the foundation of our collaborative culture that connects employees around the world.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Full-time

Employee Status

Regular

Business Class

Highways

Primary Location

United States-Tennessee-Nashville

Other Locations

United States-Tennessee

Industry

Highway + Road

Job Posting

Jan 15, 2026

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity.

We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.hdrinc.com/equal-employment-opportunity-employer).

We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.