Project Manager, Roadway

Key Responsibilities: 

Project and Technical Leadership

• Lead and manage complex transportation engineering assignments for provincial, municipal, regional, and transit-sector clients.
• Serve as Project Manager, Deputy Project Manager, Technical Lead, Senior Reviewer, or QA/QC Lead on transportation infrastructure projects.
• Oversee project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, resourcing, deliverables, and client communications.
• Provide senior technical review and direction for transportation engineering deliverables, studies, reports, design submissions, and multidisciplinary work products.
• Lead or support projects involving highways, roadways, traffic operations, municipal roads, corridor studies, safety reviews, staging, detours, and transportation operations.
• Coordinate effectively with roadway, drainage, structural, environmental, utility, transit, construction, and property teams.

Client and Business Development

• Maintain and grow trusted relationships with public-sector transportation clients across Ontario.
• Support strategic pursuits, proposal development, work plans, technical approaches, fee estimates, interviews, and scope negotiations.
• Help position GFT for future transportation opportunities through client engagement, market awareness, and strong delivery performance.
• Identify follow-on work opportunities and support account planning for key transportation clients.
• Represent GFT in client meetings, technical workshops, project reviews, industry events, and pursuit interviews.

MTO RAQS and Pursuit Support

• Support GFT’s ability to pursue and deliver MTO and other Ontario transportation assignments.
• Contribute to MTO-related pursuits, qualifications packages, technical submissions, work plans, and project delivery strategies.
• Maintain working knowledge of MTO expectations, Ontario transportation standards, agency coordination requirements, and quality management practices.

Quality, Risk, and Delivery excellence

• Provide senior QA/QC oversight to improve technical consistency, risk management, and delivery quality.
• Apply sound engineering judgment to resolve complex technical, contractual, and interdisciplinary issues.
• Promote consistent use of checking procedures, lessons learned, design criteria, project controls, and risk mitigation practices.
• Support profitable delivery by managing scope, change, budget performance, resource planning, and client expectations

Team Development and Mentorship.

• Mentor junior and intermediate engineers, designers, analysts, and project managers.
• Provide coaching on technical delivery, project management, client communication, quality expectations, and professional development.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, knowledge transfer, and succession planning within the Transportation Practice.
• Help build a stronger, more resilient Toronto team with improved bench depth and clearer growth pathways.

What you will Bring: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or a related field.
• Licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, or immediately eligible for licensure with Professional Engineers Ontario.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive transportation engineering experience, including significant Ontario public-sector infrastructure experience.
• Minimum 8 years of project management, technical leadership, or senior delivery experience on transportation infrastructure assignments.
• Demonstrated experience leading transportation assignments for public-sector clients such as MTO, municipalities, regions, transit agencies, or other infrastructure owners.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, client relationships, project budgets, schedules, risk, quality, and technical deliverables.
• Strong knowledge of Ontario transportation design practices, agency requirements, contract delivery models, and multidisciplinary project delivery.
• Ability to support strategic pursuits and contribute to winning work through proposal development, client engagement, technical approaches, and senior/key personnel positioning.
• MTO RAQS eligibility is mandatory. Candidates must be eligible to serve as named/key personnel for relevant MTO RAQS categories.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical reporting, proposal writing, client presentations, and senior review.

What We Prefer You Bring: 

• Experience serving as Project Manager, Design Manager, Technical Lead, Independent Reviewer, Senior QA Reviewer, or Client Account Lead.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: highway engineering, traffic engineering, transportation planning, municipal roads, corridor design, transportation operations, construction staging, detour planning, road safety, active transportation, or transit-supportive infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Ontario engineering standards, TAC guidance, OTM books, MTO design standards, traffic analysis tools, Civil 3D, MicroStation/OpenRoads, Synchro, VISSIM, Aimsun, or similar platforms.
• PMP, PTOE, RSP, or equivalent certification would be considered an asset.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or a related field.
• P.Eng. in Ontario, MCIP/RPP, or an equivalent professional designation, or eligibility to obtain one, is required.
• 10+ years of experience in traffic engineering, transportation planning, or traffic operations.
• Experience delivering traffic engineering components of large infrastructure projects.
• Experience leading technical teams and coordinating multidisciplinary assignments.