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.

Employment type
Full-Time

Work arrangement
No