Senior Transportation Project Manager

• Step into Something Bigger.
• Lead Projects.

Build a Market.

This isn’t your typical Senior Transportation Project Manager role.

You’ll lead meaningful transportation projects while helping expand our presence in Meridian, Idaho. This role offers direct exposure to clients, the chance to create new opportunities, and ownership in how the market evolves.

If you’re looking for more visibility, influence, leadership, and chance to make your mark, this is your move.

What you’ll do:

Guide projects from planning through delivery

Build your own team

Grow lasting client relationships

Support business growth

Define strategy from day one

Job Summary :

You’ll work alongside an experienced technical team to deliver innovative, high-quality solutions while helping drive what comes next. This role is made for the right person who’s ready to lead, grow, and make a lasting impact.

Duties/Responsibilities:

Using local or AASHTO standards, oversee horizontal and vertical alignment, roadway sections, intersection layout and sight distance determination, interchange layout, utility plans, traffic control plans, signing and striping, roadway drainage including hydraulic reports, and right-of-way plans

Conduct planning studies, modeling, and hydraulic calculations

Develop plans and specifications

Prepare Preliminary Engineering Reports

Provide support for project bidding and construction administration

Mentor junior-level staff

Actively participate in business development, lead generation, and contribute to proposals, presentations, and other marketing documents

Perform other duties as assigned

Required Skills/Abilities:

Excellent project management skills and superb attention to detail

Ability to support contract negotiation and execution

Comfortable developing project fees and estimates

Demonstrated success managing aggressive project schedules

Able to prioritize multiple projects and deadlines

Capable of working as part of a team or independently

Ability to work successfully with experts in multiple disciplines with a range of approaches

Proficient with applicable software such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, BlueBeam, ArcGIS, AutoCAD, Microstation or other design software as appropriate and have the ability to participate in design and plan development

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or related field

Eight or more years of relevant professional experience

Current Professional Engineer licensure in Idaho, Washington, and/or Utah or ability and desire to obtain licensure within six months of hire

Benefits:

Employee medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents

Short-term and long-term disability insurance

Company paid life insurance with option to buy up

Salary Advantage Program

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Flexible spending account (FSA)

Health savings account (HSA)

401k match program & access to asset management services

Year-end bonus

Costco membership

Paid time off (PTO) and PTO sell back program

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid day of community service

We are a mid-sized consulting firm providing water, wastewater, civil, transportation, and structural engineering services throughout the West including Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah. We provide client-focused solutions in surface water, water and wastewater engineering, as well as transportation planning, roadway, bridges and vertical structures, site civil design, construction management, electrical, controls, and surveying. Our clients include federal, state, and local agencies as well as small and medium sized cities. Our work is never boring and always influences the communities we serve. We take joy in everything we do – from work to play – our staff finds ways to be more human and balanced.

Keller Associates, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.