Transportation Practice
Consistently ranked by Engineering News-Record as a Top 20 transportation firm, Michael Baker International offers clients an integrated team of professionals versed in all aspects of transportation planning, design, permitting, and construction management and inspection. In addition, Michael Baker International is a recognized leader in the practical aspects of operating and maintaining a safe and efficient transportation infrastructure.
What We’re Looking For:
Michael Baker International is seeking a Senior Transportation Project Manager to join our growing teams in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This leadership role combines project management, technical expertise, client relationship management, and business development. The successful candidate will have experience delivering transportation and roadway projects for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), counties, municipalities, and Design-Build clients while leading multidisciplinary teams and mentoring engineering staff.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage transportation and roadway projects from proposal development through final delivery.
- Lead project teams in roadway design, plan production, QA/QC reviews, and technical analyses.
- Develop project scopes, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, and fee proposals.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships while supporting strategic business development initiatives throughout Wisconsin.
- Coordinate engineers, technicians, and subconsultants to successfully deliver projects on schedule and within budget.
- Monitor project performance, financials, staffing utilization, and project risks.
- Provide technical direction, leadership, and mentorship to engineering staff.
- Support transportation design efforts utilizing OpenRoads Designer and other digital delivery tools.
- Collaborate with regional leadership to expand Michael Baker's transportation practice across Wisconsin.
What You Need to Succeed:
- Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license required; Wisconsin PE preferred or ability to obtain reciprocity.
- 15+ years of transportation engineering and project management experience.
- Proven experience delivering highway and roadway projects for WisDOT, counties, municipalities, Design-Build, and other public-sector clients.
- Strong leadership, client relationship management, business development, and communication skills.
- Experience managing project scopes, budgets, schedules, quality, and multidisciplinary project teams.
- Proficiency with OpenRoads Designer, MicroStation, ProjectWise, Bluebeam, and Microsoft Office.
- Experience with roadway design, corridor modeling, plan production, and digital project delivery.
- Experience mentoring and developing engineering staff.
- Established relationships with WisDOT and local agency stakeholders throughout Wisconsin.
- Experience leading pursuits, proposal development, and transportation practice growth initiatives.
- PMP certification and multi-state PE licensure are a plus.
Compensation
The approximate compensation range for this position is $140,000 to $200,000. This compensation range is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation is dependent upon factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skillset, and physical work location.
Why Choose Us:
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability
- Professional and personal development
- Generous paid time off
- Commuter and wellness benefits
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Michael Baker International, a leading provider of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management, has been solving some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges for more than 85 years with a legacy of expertise, experience, innovation and integrity.
Based in Pittsburgh and with over 100 offices nationwide, we partner with clients on everything from roads, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, and airports, to water treatment plants, arctic oil pipelines, environmental restoration and specialized overseas construction. We serve as a trusted adviser to the communities we serve, making them safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more prosperous.
We provide visionary leadership in facilitating transformational change for our clients. Our work delivers differentiating innovations and dedicated experts who challenge the status quo and share a world of diverse experience and an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit. We deliver quality of life.
We Make a Difference.
Michael Baker International is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Michael Baker International provides equal employment opportunity for all persons, in all facets of employment. Michael Baker International maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified and all will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, familial status, pregnancy or childbirth, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, status with regard to public assistance, or membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or any other legally protected status.
EEO is the Law. Applicants to and employees of Michael Baker International are protected under Federal law from discrimination.
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*There is no current application deadline. Michael Baker will continue to accept applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or no longer needed.
