Surface Transportation Technical Manager

The Opportunity

Ulteig is seeking talented and motivated candidates for a Technical Manager position. The selected candidate will focus on building our reputation and brand within the North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota markets, leading a team of employees to foster on-the-job development and facilitate team growth while winning and leading projects to support that growth. They will report directly to our Associate Director, focused on the Surface Transportation market, and will interact closely with other corporate business units such as our sales, marketing, human resources, and project management center of excellence teams. The Technical Manager should be a self-starting technical leader with expertise in leadership, communication, and resource management.   

 

What You’ll Do

Project Technical Leadership – 50% 

• Manages and leads engineering activities during the proposal, design, and construction stages of both small and large surface transportation projects. 
• Maintains high levels of quality and responsiveness to meet the needs of both our internal and external clients. 
• Assign, manage, and coordinate staffing and workload for the team and to support project development. 
• Responsible for reviewing project drawings, calculations & specifications, assuming responsible charge as needed. 

 

People Leadership – 25% 

• Provides strategic direction, leadership, and technical oversight for employees to achieve individual, team, department, and enterprise goals. 
• Develops staff’s technical, leadership, and soft skills through annual goals, career development planning, one-on-one meetings, and performance reviews. 
• Communicates department and team-level decisions, strategies, and approaches as well as the rationale behind them. 
• Fosters an environment that makes training, self-development, quality, and innovation key components of the team culture and produces qualified individuals who set the standard in the transportation industry. 
• Establish a safe and inclusive workplace for all employees. 

 

Business Performance Leadership – 25% 

• Manages, develops, and leverages existing client relationships by staying in regular contact with key clients. 
• Participates and partners with team members throughout the organization to promote revenue growth and expansion of services. 
• Supports the development of proposals by working with the Proposal Development Team, Project Technical Teams, Subject Matter Experts, and other departments. 
• Develop and implement operating policies, tools, resources, and processes that enable team members to be successful. 
• Work collaboratively with shared services to ensure established processes and tools to meet the needs of the business to successfully manage, track, and report on projects. 

 

What We Expect from You

• BS in Civil Engineering, Planning, or equivalent is required. 
• Civil Professional Engineer (PE), Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE), or American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) licensure is required. 
• A minimum of 10+ years of engineering experience in design and/or construction in the transportation engineering field is required. 
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, management, clients, public, and external agencies. 
• Must be analytical, and self-motivated, and possess the ability to work in high-pressure situations while maintaining a positive and enthusiastic attitude. 
• Strong information management skills. 
• High level of initiative and demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects with clear expectations and timeliness. 
• Excellent presentation and verbal/written communication skills. 
• Displays a high level of initiative while exploring new opportunities and understanding the risk to the organization. 
• Able to travel for up to 1 week per month. 
• Proven experience in Microsoft Software Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and additional software knowledge depending on specialty. 
• Demonstrates openness to innovation by embracing and applying evolving technology and AI tools to enhance workflows, solve problems, and drive continuous improvement.
• Must have authorization to work permanently in the U.S.

 

 

As you consider applying for a position at Ulteig, we encourage you to think outside the box – because we do! You might not meet 100% of the skills listed in a description, but we are committed to hiring people with exceptional talent, ability and potential, and then creating an enviro