Job Description
Bring your curiosity and determination to make a positive impact on the future of transport, and we’ll help you go all the way.
Join our team of globally connected specialists to help solve complex transport challenges and experience groundbreaking projects from idea to delivery, and beyond.
Our pledge to you.
Join GHD.
GHD has multiple opportunities for a Senior Transportation Project Manager/Practice Leader in Southern California! This is an outstanding opportunity for a dynamic professional to participate in supporting our current clients and building new relationships through business development.
In the problem solving business, it helps to be restlessly curious to deliver community change.
Our vision is to ensure energy, water and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come. You can lead the way into a new future for our industry, inspiring the next generation of driven and committed people in the process.
Learn about leadership opportunities with GHD.
Working with the our transportation team, this position offers great variety of projects, and will see you involved in
- Project Delivery/ Management of sophisticated on- and off-system transportation planning and traffic engineering projects, with a focus on advanced traffic management systems and solutions
- Lead transportation planning and traffic engineering projects and team(s)
- Senior Technical Lead for Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering Projects
- Support business development on behalf of GHD, position for new work and secure projects
- Implement/develop standards
- Lead sub consultants
What you will bring to the team
- Excellence associated with the production and delivery of Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering tasks and projects
- Proven professional judgement and commercial competence, including identifying, assessing, evaluating and solving problems to brief and budget
- A desire to coach, guide and mentor to technically strengthen the team capabilities is super important!
Qualifications
- At least 15 years of related experience with technical knowledge and skills across the transportation & site development industry, including a strong background in planning, design and construction
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or related field
- Confirmed excellence at all stages of the project life-cycle, from preparing bids to feasibility studies, consenting, detailed design and data analysis, and client management
- Sound professional judgement and commercial savvy, including identifying, assessing, evaluating and solving problems to brief and budget
- Portfolio of transportation projects in Southern California
- Technical knowledge in planning and engineering software not limited to GIS, Synchro and/or Vissim
- Ability to work with and balance priorities among a variety of projects and project managers
Take on some of the world’s toughest challenges – with everyone at GHD backing you every step of the way.
We’ll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact.
See where your commitment could take you with GHD.
As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status or veteran status.
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Salary range: $144,000-$216,000 based on experience
About Us
Take on some of the world’s toughest challenges – with everyone at GHD backing you every step of the way.
We’ll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact.
See where your commitment could take you with GHD.
Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.
That’s why we pledge to empower all of our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today.
See where your commitment could take you.
That’s the #PowerOfCommitment
Who we are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.
The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It’s what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity’s most urgent needs: to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.