Senior Transportation Engineering Manager - Roads, Major Projects

Job Description

Senior Manager, Roads - Major Projects - Ontario is a senior transportation engineering leadership role based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The position provides technical, project delivery, commercial, client, and people leadership across roadway, highway, municipal transportation, and major infrastructure programs throughout Ontario and Quebec. The role supports multidisciplinary project delivery involving provincial transportation authorities, municipal clients, transit infrastructure, and major capital programs.

The position oversees roadway design and construction support activities from concept development through detailed design and implementation. Responsibilities include leadership of complex transportation assignments, coordination of multidisciplinary engineering interfaces, management of project delivery performance, and development of transportation programs and client relationships across Eastern Canada.

The ideal candidate brings 15-20 years of progressive transportation engineering experience, strong highway and municipal roadway expertise, major-project delivery exposure, and demonstrated success managing technical professionals, project portfolios, and transportation infrastructure programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for roadway and highway design assignments from concept development through detailed design and construction support.
• Lead delivery of provincial highway, freeway, interchange, roadway widening, rehabilitation, and corridor improvement projects.
• Direct multidisciplinary coordination across structures, drainage, traffic, illumination, utilities, and geotechnical engineering disciplines.
• Manage transportation-agency submissions, technical reviews, approvals, and stakeholder coordination activities.
• Lead municipal transportation projects involving road reconstruction, complete streets, active transportation, transit infrastructure, and intersection improvements.
• Establish project scope, delivery strategy, design schedules, deliverables, and resource planning frameworks for major infrastructure programs.
• Monitor project schedule performance, budget performance, design risk, and opportunity management activities.
• Support estimating, constructability reviews, design integration, and resolution of complex technical issues.
• Provide people leadership through workforce planning, performance management, coaching, mentoring, and succession planning.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop transportation engineering professionals to support business growth objectives.
• Contribute to commercial management through forecasting, utilization planning, fee development, scope management, and change management.
• Support business development activities including client relationship management, capture planning, proposal preparation, interviews, and major pursuits.
• Collaborate with transportation and major-project leadership teams to strengthen roadway delivery capability and market presence across Eastern Canada.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related engineering discipline.
• Licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Ontario or eligible for registration.
• 15-20 years of progressive transportation engineering experience with significant senior-level responsibility for roadway and highway design and delivery.
• Demonstrated experience with the Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) and/or equivalent provincial, state, or national transportation authorities.
• Strong municipal roadway and transportation engineering experience.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary design teams on transportation infrastructure projects.
• Strong understanding of roadway, bridge, and major-structure interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedules, resources, and design risk.
• Experience delivering major transportation infrastructure projects and programs.
• Strong engineering judgment, technical problem-solving capability, and client-facing communication skills.
• Familiarity with Civil 3D and/or Bentley transportation design environments.
• Experience with alternative delivery models including Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, P3, Alliance, or similar approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and develop technical professionals.

Assets

• Professional engineering registration in Quebec or eligibility for registration.
• Professional French-language capability.
• Experience supporting transportation program development and pipeline planning.
• Additional experience delivering transportation projects across Ontario and Quebec, including Ottawa and Gatineau.
• Advanced exposure to major transit and infrastructure programs.
• Broad experience coordinating roadway design with structures and other engineering disciplines.

Additional Information

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.