Transportation Project Manager - Wisconsin

About the role

AECOM is seeking an experienced Transportation Project Manager to join our growing Transportation team in Middleton/Madison, Wisconsin. This is an opportunity to lead the delivery of impactful transportation infrastructure projects that improve mobility, enhance safety, and strengthen communities throughout Wisconsin.

In this role, you will lead multidisciplinary teams delivering roadway, highway, intersection, and other transportation improvement projects for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), county highway departments, municipalities, and other public-sector clients. You will guide projects from planning and preliminary engineering through final design and construction support, balancing technical excellence, client expectations, budgets, schedules, and quality requirements.

As a trusted client partner and project leader, you will help develop project delivery strategies, build lasting relationships, mentor technical staff, and identify opportunities to expand AECOM's transportation portfolio. You will collaborate with a broad network of engineering and planning professionals to deliver innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions while contributing to the continued growth of AECOM's Transportation business in Wisconsin.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of transportation engineering projects, ensuring compliance with scope, budget, schedule, quality, and client expectations.
• Manage multidisciplinary project teams delivering roadway, highway, intersection, and transportation infrastructure improvements.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, including WisDOT, county highway departments, municipalities, and other transportation agencies.
• Develop and maintain project work plans, budgets, schedules, staffing plans, risk registers, and quality management procedures.
• Oversee preliminary and final design deliverables, technical reports, plans, specifications, cost estimates, and supporting documentation.
• Coordinate engineering disciplines, including roadway design, traffic engineering, bridge and structural engineering, drainage, utilities, environmental services, and construction support.
• Monitor project performance, identify potential risks and challenges, implement corrective actions, and communicate progress to clients and internal leadership.
• Lead project meetings, facilitate technical discussions, resolve project issues, and maintain effective communication among clients, stakeholders, and project teams.
• Support contract negotiations, scope development, change management, invoicing, and financial performance monitoring.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen client relationships, pursue new projects, support proposal development, and contribute to transportation business growth across Wisconsin.
• Mentor and develop project staff, promote collaboration, and uphold AECOM's commitment to technical excellence, safety, and quality.

Minimum Requirements

• BA/BS + 8 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing transportation engineering projects from planning and preliminary design through final design and construction support.
• Experience delivering roadway, highway, intersection, interchange, or other transportation infrastructure projects for state and local transportation agencies.
• Experience working with WisDOT, county highway departments, municipalities, or other public-sector transportation clients, with familiarity with applicable design standards, project development processes, and delivery requirements.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license in Wisconsin, or the ability to obtain Wisconsin licensure.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project scope, budgets, schedules, staffing, quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC), risk, and financial performance.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and coordinating roadway, traffic, bridge, drainage, environmental, utility, and other technical disciplines.
• Strong client relationship management skills, including experience leading project meetings, communicating technical recommendations, resolving issues, and maintaining client satisfaction.
• Experience with project pursuits, proposal preparation, scope and fee development, contract negotiations, and identifying opportunities for continued client engagement.
• Familiarity with transportation design and project delivery tools, including Bentley OpenRoads Designer, MicroStation, AutoCAD Civil 3D, and relevant project management and scheduling software.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor staff, delegate assignments, review technical deliverables, and foster a collaborative, high-performing project team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information clearly to clients, stakeholders, and executive leadership.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities while maintaining quality and schedule commitments.
• Experience applying innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective engineering solutions to transportation infrastructure challenges.

Additional Information

• This role does not provide Visa Sponsorship

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