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Job DescriptionProject Manager - Highways is a senior-level civil engineering role based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, responsible for leading multidisciplinary highway and transportation infrastructure projects through detailed design and delivery phases. The position supports provincial transportation initiatives involving highway expansion, interchange improvements, roadway rehabilitation, and bridge rehabilitation or replacement projects within the Ontario transportation network.
The role involves project leadership across planning, detailed design, stakeholder coordination, schedule management, budget oversight, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance activities. Work is performed within a consulting engineering environment serving public-sector transportation clients and collaborating with engineers, utility agencies, contractors, and approval authorities.
The ideal candidate brings 10-15 years of transportation engineering experience, demonstrated project management capability, and extensive exposure to Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) infrastructure projects, including complex highway, interchange, bridge, and roadway design assignments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead multidisciplinary highway and bridge design projects and provide overall project management oversight for MTO assignments.
- Perform duties as highway design lead for transportation infrastructure projects, ensuring technical quality and design compliance.
- Provide technical mentorship and engineering oversight to design staff and project team members.
- Coordinate the design and delivery of freeways, interchanges, intersections, urban roadways, and rural transportation facilities.
- Implement and monitor QA/QC procedures to ensure compliance with corporate and client quality standards.
- Manage stakeholder coordination with clients, approval agencies, utility providers, contractors, and project partners.
- Support business development through relationship management with industry professionals, consultants, and transportation-sector stakeholders.
- Prepare proposals, project work plans, schedules, resource forecasts, and project budgets.
- Monitor project performance, schedule adherence, cost control, and technical deliverables to achieve project objectives.
- Facilitate multidisciplinary coordination and communication throughout project execution and design development.
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering.
- Professional Engineer designation (P.Eng.) in Ontario.
- 10-15 years of progressive experience in highway design, transportation engineering, and project management.
- Demonstrated experience delivering highway infrastructure projects within a consulting engineering environment.
- Strong knowledge of highway and transportation engineering principles, policies, regulations, guidelines, and operational procedures.
- Proven experience managing multidisciplinary transportation infrastructure projects.
- Experience with freeway, roadway, interchange, intersection, and bridge rehabilitation design assignments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated problem-solving, analytical, and technical decision-making abilities.
- Ability to work effectively with clients, regulatory agencies, contractors, utilities, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Valid driver's license and access to a registered and insured vehicle.
Assets
- Approval eligibility within the MTO RAQS (Registry, Appraisal and Qualification System) for applicable transportation specialties.
- Experience delivering transportation infrastructure projects across multiple regions of Ontario.
- Previous involvement with major highway expansion and interchange improvement programs.
- Additional bridge rehabilitation or bridge replacement project experience.
- Established professional relationships within the Ontario transportation and infrastructure sector.
We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
This role is eligible for a referral bonus in line with the Referral Program. If you have been referred, please provide the name of the employee who has referred you at the time of your application.
At Egis, we embrace innovation to tackle challenges and utilize AI in our recruitment process under stringent ethics and compliance policies and in alignment with our values of being a Responsible Company, a People First Company and a Creative Company. Committed to diversity, growth and collaboration, we may leverage AI to support the recruitment process.
Egis Canada is an equal opportunities employer offering a competitive salary and benefits to those with the skills suited to the needs of our clients. The salary range advertised may exceed the range based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
