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When you care deeply about the work you do, it’s rewarding to see it through from concept to completion. We partner with clients to provide both program management and construction management to strategize, plan, and implement projects that drive organizations forward. From hospitals and airports to university campuses, mass transit systems, water treatment facilities, mines, and wind farms, we've successfully managed thousands of projects. Â
Joining our team, turning visionary ideas into reality, will shape your future—and the future of your community.Â
We are strategizing, planning, and implementing projects that help clients achieve their organization’s objectives. Join our award-winning program management team and bring transformational project solutions to life.
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Your OpportunityÂ
We are seeking a highly experienced civil engineering professional with a strong background in transportation design and project delivery, this role is responsible for reviewing design submittals for compliance with Tollway, IDOT, and AASHTO standards while leading constructability, quality assurance, and value-engineering efforts. The position supports multiple project managers across concurrent projects, ensures adherence to budgets, schedules, and design intent, and plays a key role in client engagement, proposal development, and winning new work. With over 10 years of industry experience and a PE license in Illinois, the ideal candidate demonstrates exceptional technical knowledge, leadership, communication, and negotiation skills, while mentoring junior staff and driving projects forward with minimal supervision.
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Your Key Responsibilities
- Review design submittals for conformance with Tollway design standards (Tollway Design Manual, Tollway Plan/Standard details, ICAPP) and applicable IDOT and AASHTO criteria.
- Operate the submittal-review pipeline, leveraging AI-enabled triage from the PMO Innovation & Technology Lab to prioritize critical reviews and accelerate routine ones.
- Maintain quality-assurance independence — ensure QA reviewers are separate from any team performing the underlying design work.
- Lead constructability and value-engineering coordination with the Construction Monitor, the Central Tri-State CCM/OR, and the CMs.
- Support errors-and-omissions review on design contracts, including root-cause classification (design error, scope change, owner-directed change, unforeseen condition).
- Effectively participates and helps to win work in interviews for potential projects.
- Plans, organizes, and directs the work throughout the life of the project to successfully deliver the project to the client.
- Keeps the Project Manager informed of progress on project expectations, deadlines, and deliverables and understands the limits of the decision-making responsibilities of the role and respects the boundaries of the PM’s responsibilities.
- Leads the client and project team to assure that the project design meets the client budget, schedule, program, and design intent.
- Assists in the negotiation and development of project agreements.
- Mentors junior team members and motivates project teams.
- Assures that Project Management Framework tasks are timely completed and properly documented.
- Leads project coordination and owner/site meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor and sub-contractors.
- Works with Project Manager in determining project staffing needs and recommending personnel.
Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).
Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements
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