What are the responsibilities and job description for the NWA Senior Transportation Project Manager and Design Lead position at Freese and Nichols?
Be a Driving Force in Northwest Arkansas Transportation!
Freese and Nichols is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Transportation Project Manager and Design Lead to play a crucial role in shaping the future of transportation in Northwest Arkansas! Are you a passionate civil engineer with a proven track record of successfully managing complex projects and a desire to make a real impact? This is your chance to shine!
Join our growing team in Rogers, AR, and become a key player in delivering exceptional transportation projects for prominent clients like ArDOT, as well as numerous counties and municipalities. Imagine the satisfaction of seeing your designs come to life and improving the daily commutes of Arkansans!
This isn't just a project management role; it's an opportunity to lead and grow. Northwest Arkansas is a booming market, and we're committed to investing in its future – and yours. At Freese and Nichols, we're dedicated to developing future leaders and technical experts through comprehensive training and mentorship programs.
Here's What Makes This Role Stand Out
At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always). Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.
We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service. For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need: developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.
Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at https://www.freese.com/services/benefits-that-work/), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.
Join our team of 1,200 employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Learn more about working here at https://www.freese.com/careers/.
Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based on his or her age, race, color, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, citizenship, or because he or she is an individual with a disability, protected veteran or other status protected by federal, state, and local laws.
We recognize that our workforce reflects the increasingly diverse nature of our society, and we strive to take advantage of that diversity with both our external and internal customers. As a Federal Contractor, Freese and Nichols is an equal employment, affirmative action employer.
Freese and Nichols is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Transportation Project Manager and Design Lead to play a crucial role in shaping the future of transportation in Northwest Arkansas! Are you a passionate civil engineer with a proven track record of successfully managing complex projects and a desire to make a real impact? This is your chance to shine!
Join our growing team in Rogers, AR, and become a key player in delivering exceptional transportation projects for prominent clients like ArDOT, as well as numerous counties and municipalities. Imagine the satisfaction of seeing your designs come to life and improving the daily commutes of Arkansans!
This isn't just a project management role; it's an opportunity to lead and grow. Northwest Arkansas is a booming market, and we're committed to investing in its future – and yours. At Freese and Nichols, we're dedicated to developing future leaders and technical experts through comprehensive training and mentorship programs.
Here's What Makes This Role Stand Out
- Lead the Way: Take ownership of projects, managing client communication, deadlines, deliverables, budgets, and ensuring top-notch quality. Become a master of project execution from start to finish
- Mentor and Inspire: Share your expertise and passion by guiding and training junior engineers. Help us build the next generation of transportation professionals.
- Drive Growth: Contribute to the expansion of our transportation practice by assisting in business development activities. Network, connect, and help us win new projects.
- Innovate and Design: Leverage your technical prowess to lead the analysis, design, and preparation of plans, specifications, estimates, and reports for our valued clients
- Build Relationships: Cultivate strong client relationships, becoming a trusted advisor and ensuring client satisfaction.
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (or comparable engineering or applied science degree)
- 6 years of experience in roadway design
- 2 years of progressive project management experience
- Arkansas Professional Engineering license (or the ability to become licensed in Arkansas within 6 months)
- Strong technical skills in roadway and drainage design
- Experience with MicroStation and Geopak/Open Roads
- Experience in working on or with the Arkansas Department of Transportation and understanding their design requirements
- Traffic engineering experience, evaluation or design
- Client communication and reporting, management of deadlines and project deliverables, project execution and quality management, agency coordination, scope and fee development along with project scheduling and tracking of activities
At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always). Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.
We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service. For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need: developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.
Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at https://www.freese.com/services/benefits-that-work/), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.
Join our team of 1,200 employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Learn more about working here at https://www.freese.com/careers/.
Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based on his or her age, race, color, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, citizenship, or because he or she is an individual with a disability, protected veteran or other status protected by federal, state, and local laws.
We recognize that our workforce reflects the increasingly diverse nature of our society, and we strive to take advantage of that diversity with both our external and internal customers. As a Federal Contractor, Freese and Nichols is an equal employment, affirmative action employer.
