Highway Program Manager

Larson Design Group • Full-time • Lititz, PA • $155k - $200k / year • 1m ago

About Us

Larson Design Group (LDG) is an award-winning, employee-owned Architecture, Engineering, and Consulting Firm. Guided by our core values, we’re expanding our team, opening new offices, and adding new offerings to provide responsive, innovative solutions to clients nationwide.

Being 100% employee-owned directly impacts our culture: it drives our decision-making, motivates our teams, increases our productivity, improves retention, and contributes to the future success of our company. Our culture is one where we work hard for our clients and for each other – and we have fun collaborating, sharing experience and expertise, and learning along the way. We’re passionate about delivering exceptional quality, elevating client relationships, enriching the careers and lives of our employee owners, and enhancing the communities where we live and serve.

At LDG, we strive to create an organization where people want to work. We offer a flexible work environment, paid training for required licensures, competitive benefits, bonus plans, and a company-funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) while supporting your professional and personal growth.

Your Opportunity + Impact

The Highway Program Manager provides leadership for a portfolio of transportation projects, project managers, and key client relationships. This position is accountable for overall program performance, client satisfaction, workload and resource management, quality, financial results, staff development, and strategic growth.

The Program Manager works closely with project managers and technical leaders to ensure teams are appropriately staffed, deliverables meet LDG's quality standards, and client commitments are consistently achieved.

Key Responsibilities

Leads a portfolio of highway projects and project managers, ensuring successful project delivery, financial performance, quality standards, and client satisfaction.
Develops and cultivates long-term client relationships, understands client priorities, and positions LDG as a trusted transportation partner.
Provides oversight and guidance to Project Managers and Senior Project Managers, helping resolve significant project, client, contractual, and delivery issues.
Balances workload and resources across the program, coordinating staffing priorities to meet commitments and support sustainable team performance.
Establishes clear expectations for quality, accountability, and project execution, ensuring accurate, coordinated, and timely deliverables across the portfolio.
Monitors financial performance, workload, backlog, project risks, and staffing needs across the program, taking proactive action to address issues and maintain performance objectives.
Leads, mentors, and develops project managers and staff, supporting career development, succession planning, and continued growth of the team.
Leads business development and strategic growth, including client engagement, opportunity development, pursuits, and expansion of transportation services.
Supports department leadership in establishing and executing annual business goals and longer-term strategic initiatives

Education and Experience

Education: Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related field.
Experience: Minimum of fifteen (15) years of relevant transportation engineering experience. Demonstrated success leading complex transportation projects, project managers, and client relationships.
Licensure/Certification: Professional Engineer (PE) license required

Preferred Qualifications

Significant experience with PennDOT, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, and/or municipal transportation clients.
Proven ability to develop and maintain strategic client relationships and grow transportation work.
Strong understanding of project and program financial performance, workload forecasting, and resource management.
Demonstrated success leading, mentoring, and developing project managers and multidisciplinary teams.
Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

EEO Statement

Larson Design Group, Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.

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