Roadway Design Senior Project Manager

Ardurra is seeking a Roadway Design Sr. Project Manager in our Orlando, FL office!

Ardurra’s Transportation team delivers design expertise across a wide spectrum of projects, from complex multilevel interchanges to urban arterial reconstruction and complete streets. Our portfolio includes major projects such as the SR 417 Widening Project in Central Florida and the SR 40 Widening Project in Marion County, both of which demonstrate our commitment to enhancing mobility and safety. Each design is tailored to be cost-effective and responsive to client needs across all delivery methods, including Design Build and Design Bid Build. We provide comprehensive planning, engineering design, and construction management to provide safe and efficient transportation solutions.

Primary Function:

The Senior Project Manager for Roadway Design will be responsible for managing projects and leading teams in engineering services related to our roadway design initiatives. This role encompasses marketing efforts to acquire new projects, overseeing project execution, engaging with clients, mentoring staff, and assisting in the development and preparation of plans, estimates, specifications, and reports for transportation facility designs.

The ideal candidate should have experience managing both rural and urban capacity projects, as well as limited access capacity projects. Furthermore, they should have a proven track record of successfully partnering with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) as a trusted advisor.

Essential Tasks

• Oversee the design and preparation of plans for new transportation systems or parts of systems, such as highways, streets, intersections, interchanges, bridges, drainage improvements, and pedestrian facilities
• Direct, manage, and develop plans and reports for transportation infrastructure projects according to established engineering standards and local, state, or federal criteria
• Assist and advise junior-level team members while being a positive mentor/leader for the team
• Perform QA/QC reviews to ensure completeness, accuracy, and conformity to engineering standards and practices
• Market, pursue and assist in the pursuit of transportation infrastructure projects from governmental clients throughout Florida
• Develop and monitor project budgets and schedules to ensure profitability and timeliness of deliverables
• Collaborate with others to identify, clarify, analyze, and resolve complex engineering problems
• Coordinate activities and assign work across multiple disciplines, both in-house and externally

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years of prior practical experience successfully marketing, winning, and managing projects with FDOT and supporting business development efforts
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• PE license in the State of Florida (or if registered in another state, the ability to obtain registration in the State of Florida within six months)
• Familiarity or established relationships with FDOT and other municipal clients is a plus
• Strong knowledge of AASHTO, FDOT, and municipal design criteria, standards, and plans preparation requirements
• Experience writing proposals, scopes of work, and budgets for projected work and delivering presentations
• Ability to communicate technical and complex information and to work well with others
• Possess attention to detail, organizational skills, and a positive attitude

Why Ardurra?

While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun. We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home.
Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

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Ardurra does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agency Agreement, Ardurra will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. If a resume or candidate is submitted to any hiring manager without a previously signed agreement, Ardurra reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. These candidates will be considered property of Ardurra. We’re not currently looking to add any more agencies to our list of approved vendors, so please do not contact any of our managers or recruitment team with sales calls or details of your candidates.

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