Civil Design Engineering Project Manager

Take Your Design Career to the Next Level  

Are you ready to be challenged, make a difference, and experience professional growth in your career? Kleinfelder's Design team is looking for you! From bridge and structural engineering to civil, electrical, mechanical, and process engineering, Kleinfelder's collaborative Design Services create synergy across multiple disciplines.   

Step into Your New Role 

As an Civil Design Engineering Project Manager in the Mid-Atlantic Region, you will lead and manage complex energy infrastructure projects, ensuring successful delivery through expert technical guidance, client management, and team leadership. Collaborating with a skilled team of engineers, designers, and construction professionals, you will provide innovative solutions and drive operational excellence. You will apply relevant design criteria, standards, and processes to deliver high-quality engineering tasks in the energy market. This role offers the opportunity to work on exciting and challenging energy infrastructure projects, with significant career growth potential for the right individuals.

This hybrid role is offered out of our Exton, PA office.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Leadership: Manage energy infrastructure projects from planning to execution, ensuring timely delivery, within budget, and exceeding client expectations.

Technical Direction: Provide expert technical guidance to project teams, ensuring adherence to high standards of design, engineering processes, and quality. Oversee and validate deliverables, including design computations, contract drawings, specifications, and estimates, ensuring thorough risk mitigation.

Project Delivery: Oversee project scheduling, cost management, and resource allocation, ensuring the successful completion of energy infrastructure projects.

Client Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, fostering long-term partnerships and ensuring ongoing project success.

Team Leadership and Development: Mentor and support the professional growth of team members, guiding them in their technical and career development.

Business Development: Contribute to proposal presentations and scoping activities, identifying new business opportunities and expanding the range of services offered to clients.

Cross-disciplinary Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, designers, and construction professionals in a collaborative, team-oriented environment to deliver comprehensive project solutions.

Thought Leadership: Contribute to industry technical conferences, committees, and internal development programs. Serve as a design lead and technical advisor for junior engineers and CAD staff.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or environmental engineering from an accredited institution or acceptable equivalent.
• 8+ years of related experience, with 4+ years of project management in the energy market preferred.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license preferred.
• Advanced knowledge and experience using AutoCAD; proficiency with Civil 3D required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, organizational, and technical writing skills.
• Strong ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues, clients, and external stakeholders.
• Good prioritization and delegation skills.
• Valid driver's license with a history of safe driving practices.

Move Forward with Kleinfelder

Kleinfelder has been connecting great people to the best work since 1961. We are engineers, scientists, and construction professionals providing solutions that improve our clients’ energy, transportation, water, and other private infrastructure. As a responsive, cross-disciplinary team of bright, curious, and innovative problem-solvers, we are dedicated to doing the right thing every day, on every project, from over 85 offices in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Connecting great people to the best work is our purpose – together, we deliver.

Progress with an Employer that Values You

Kleinfelder is an inclusive organization free from discrimination. We are a stronger organization when we are a diverse workforce and believe that through diversity, equity, and inclusion comes creativity, innovation, and unity. We are proud to offer the following:

Benefits: Kleinfelder offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays.

Career Development: We are committed to investing in the professional development of our staff, offering each employee every opportunity to grow, develop, and take control of their career paths. We support these efforts through reimbursements for continuing education as well as many of the expenses associated with trainings and certifications, and opportunities for career development through our internal Mentoring Program.

Equal Opportunity: Kleinfelder is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans. (Compliant with the new VEVRAA and Section 503 rules)

NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES

Please note that Kleinfelder does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, Kleinfelder will not consider or agree to payment for any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, Kleinfelder explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resume, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Kleinfelder.