Section Manager - Project Management
King Of Prussia, PAFull-timeSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
Most applications go out cold — see where you stand first. No sign-up to start.
You apply on the employer's site, with no Olive account needed.
Watch jobs like this. New roles like this one near King Of Prussia, PA, by email.
Don't just apply. Show up ready.
Olive works from this exact posting.
At a glance
Olive lists jobs from US employers, including remote roles you can work from the United States.
Requirements
Credentials this posting asks for.
Job overview
The Section Manager leads a professional or technical discipline section in delivering project tasks while managing scope, budget, and quality. The role coordinates priorities, staffing, and assignments; develops staff through coaching and mentoring; and supports project pursuits, contracting, and delivery processes. It also manages client relationships, section growth, and assigned project management and technical discipline activities.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
What We're Looking For
At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.
This opportunity entails being responsible for leading a professional or technical discipline section in the design, development and delivery of project tasks while managing scope, budget, and quality control. This position coordinates project priorities, staffing schedules, and staff assignments to ensure clients are provided the proper resources at the appropriate time. Responsible for technical coaching and mentoring and efficient, productive utilization of staff in providing high-quality service.
What You'll Do:
-
Develops, monitors and manages the section's operating budget in support of the group or office operating budget and forecast updates.
-
Responsible for the management, growth and professional development of discipline-specific engineering section. Coordinates section activities establishes priorities and staff to jobs. Ensures staff development, mentoring and training needs are being met. Collaborates with other Sections and Departments within the office on work-sharing needs and opportunities.
-
Supports the implementation of the firm's strategic plan and HNTB's Sophisticated Sales Approach (SSA) process on project pursuits in the Section and office, including development of Section-level strategic planning strategies.
-
Supports the implementation of the firm's contracting (SCA) process through project delivery and contracting activities including scope, work plan and fee reviews for all contracting activities impacting the Section.
-
Supports the implementation of the firm's project delivery (SDA) process including Work Planning, Monthly Project Reviews and other project performance methods to ensure quality work, on time, on schedule, to the client's satisfaction.
-
Assists in marketing responsibilities, including client discovery, proposal generation, interviews, and win-to-work activities
-
Maintains client contacts to ensure client satisfaction
-
Recruits, hires, develops and retains section staff, including development of plan for staff reporting, performance and compensation reviews, and succession.
-
Manages assigned project management activities (project scope, schedule, budget and quality management) and performs technical discipline tasks including research, reports, design, specifications and plan preparation.
-
Leads a team including the direct and indirect supervision of at least 5 but typically 7 - 10 or more employees.
-
Performs other duties as assigned.
What You'll Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with 8 years of practical experience including 2 years of leadership experience.
What We Prefer:
-
Master’s degree in Engineering
-
10 years practical experience
-
2 years supervisory experience
-
Professional Engineer (PE) certification
Additional Information
Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards
Click here to learn more about Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
#CB #Highways
.
Locations:
Harrisburg, PA, King of Prussia, PA (Norristown), Philadelphia, PA (Pennsylvania), Pittsburgh, PA
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:
HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.
Job Type: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full time
Job Category: Engineering Group
ReqID: R-32287
How this job compares
Set against the 2,115 open Engineering Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Pennsylvania median$143–265K/yr49 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 80 open Engineering Management jobs in Pennsylvania and 2,115 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Engineering Management postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (1,819 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 890 of the 2,115 open Engineering Management jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
Prepare for this role
You've read the whole posting — now see how you match it.

