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.