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Take Your Delivery Management Career to the Next Level
Kleinfelder, a Forbes' Top Employer for Engineers in North America, is committed to a people-first culture, technical excellence, and creating opportunities where employees can thrive!
Do you have a passion for managing budgets, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations? Our delivery management professionals are involved in project delivery from initiation and planning to execution, monitoring, and closeout. Each phase requires strong attention to detail while communicating with internal and external stakeholders. Do you have a proven track record in managing goals and objectives? Consider joining our team and work with peers who have vast industry knowledge and experience solving complex problems.
Step into Your New Role
Kleinfelder is seeking a results-oriented Project Manager to join our growing team in Houston, Texas or Atlanta, Georgia. This role will lead engineering projects for major energy and utility clients, with a focus on technical execution, encroachment/relocation design, constructability, schedule management, high-quality deliverables, and exceptional client service.
We value leaders who communicate clearly, build strong client relationships, and provide responsive, service-oriented support. This role centers on managing multi-disciplinary engineering efforts, guiding technical decisions, and delivering utility and pipeline infrastructure projects within active transportation and development corridors. Railroad permitting and agency coordination will be part of project execution. This is a hybrid office role.
Responsibilities:

• Client Relationship Management: Serve as a primary client contact, build trusted relationships, and provide responsive communication that supports client satisfaction and long-term partnerships.
• Portfolio Management: Manage multiple concurrent projects from opportunity identification and proposal development through execution in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Interdisciplinary Leadership: Lead technical, cost, and schedule decisions across multi-disciplinary teams while maintaining quality standards and client value.
• Innovative Problem Solving: Develop creative, practical solutions to engineering challenges, applying sound judgment and technical expertise.
• Project Delivery Oversight: Manage project delivery, including team coordination, subcontractor management, scheduling, financial tracking, health and safety compliance, and reporting.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Explain technical concepts clearly to internal and external stakeholders to support transparency, responsiveness, and shared understanding.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Engineering Project Leadership: Experience leading engineering teams through planning, design, technical review, and construction support for energy and infrastructure projects.
• Virtual Team Collaboration: Skilled at managing geographically distributed teams, aligning resources, and using remote collaboration tools to meet project objectives.
• Financial Acumen: Understands budgeting, pricing, competitive pursuits, and construction cost considerations for consultant-led projects.
• Quality & Risk Management: Committed to quality assurance, risk mitigation, peer reviews, and a coordinated partnership between the Project Manager, technical lead, and business development lead to align scope, quality, client expectations, and project performance.
• Technical Communication: Able to explain engineering concepts, project constraints, and regulatory requirements to clients, agencies, and non-technical stakeholders.

Education: B.S. degree in Civil or Mechanical Engineering is preferred; or equivalent experience and education.
Experience: 6-7 years of related experience, including 3+ years of project management experience and knowledge of applicable laws and regulations required.
Professional Registration: Professional Engineer registration is required.
Following an offer, candidates will be required to satisfactorily complete employment reference checks, verification of professional licensure and/or educational credentials, a motor vehicle report (MVR), and a comprehensive background check.
Move Forward with Kleinfelder
Kleinfelder and its' subsidiaries and affiliates, has been connecting great people to the best work since 1961. We are engineers, scientists, and construction professionals providing solutions that improve our clients' transportation, water, energy, 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 110 offices in the US, Canada, and Australia. Connecting great people to the best work is our purpose - together, we deliver.
Progress with an Employer that Values You
Kleinfelder, and its' subsidiaries and affiliates, 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, and its' subsidiaries and affiliates, 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, and its' subsidiaries and affiliates, 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, and its' subsidiaries and affiliates, does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, Kleinfelder, and its' subsidiaries and affiliates, 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, and its' subsidiaries and affiliates, 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.