Transportation Project Manager Jobs in New York
Transportation Project Manager jobs in New York represent one of the most active markets in the country, concentrated in infrastructure, transit, and public works across a state with an enormous pipeline of capital projects. The heaviest hiring is in New York City, Albany, and Buffalo, where employers such as the MTA, AECOM, and WSP consistently staff these roles at every level from junior project coordinator through senior program manager. The most in-demand specialties are transit infrastructure, highway and bridge programs, and multimodal corridor development. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Project Manager for our New York City, NY office.
Be involved in projects with our Transportation and Infrastructure Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges.
This role provides leadership within a sector of organization to ensure transit and rail engineering subject matter, technical deliverables, infrastructure projects and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry and company standards for design, safety, and functionality. Responsible for SME innovation and administration, ensuring corporate compliance with all Local, State, and Federal engineering, construction, and safety regulations, and providing pragmatic direction to address current and future challenges in a rapidly-changing and complex business climate.
Your Impact
- Provide proactive and strategic leadership for transportation and infrastructure engineering disciplines and functions, offering direction, expertise, and support to ensure project and work site deliverables are successfully achieved within the business sector.
- Lead larger-scale more complex projects ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
- Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
- Responsible for the profitable performance of the individual projects and the successful completion of the projects within the specified area.
- Ensure that engineering discipline certifications, accreditations, and value proposition is developed and continuously improved.
- Conduct needs analyses and client value surveys to align the engineering discipline’s function with business and project strategy, identifying and addressing any skill gaps or risks within the sector business operations.
- Schedule engineering discipline meetings, providing updates and recommendations to ensure that all reasonable and proper measures are taken to inculcate discipline expertise and innovation into project work.
- Develop and inform proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics – and accountable for planning, development and management of projects in compliance with all applicable City/State/Federal codes and regulations, and in accordance with all acceptable engineering practices.
- Interpret and summarize data, including reports and documents that result in sound engineering and regulatory conclusions.
- Provide verbal and/or written inputs to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.
- Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.
- Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to assigned staff.
- Remain current in latest transit and rail engineering techniques and practices.
- Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide “trusted advisor” service and future ready solutions for clients.
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures. Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline.
- 12+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering, prior transit and rail experience, and infrastructure design.
- Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).
- Project management and quality management experience leading a team of quality engineers, inspectors, and assessors.
- Proficiency with transportation and infrastructure engineering principles, practices, process, and design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
- Advanced proficiency with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.
- Works independently and provides guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
- Tactical lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, regulators, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exits.
- Proficiency with office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e., MicroStation, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, OpenRail), technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs. Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Engineering. Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $174,400 - $255,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
#LI-AC2
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
www.wsp.com
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Project Manager for our New York City, NY office.
Be involved in projects with our Transportation and Infrastructure Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges.
This role provides leadership within a sector of organization to ensure transit and rail engineering subject matter, technical deliverables, infrastructure projects and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry and company standards for design, safety, and functionality. Responsible for SME innovation and administration, ensuring corporate compliance with all Local, State, and Federal engineering, construction, and safety regulations, and providing pragmatic direction to address current and future challenges in a rapidly-changing and complex business climate.
Your Impact
- Provide proactive and strategic leadership for transportation and infrastructure engineering disciplines and functions, offering direction, expertise, and support to ensure project and work site deliverables are successfully achieved within the business sector.
- Lead larger-scale more complex projects ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
- Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
- Responsible for the profitable performance of the individual projects and the successful completion of the projects within the specified area.
- Ensure that engineering discipline certifications, accreditations, and value proposition is developed and continuously improved.
- Conduct needs analyses and client value surveys to align the engineering discipline’s function with business and project strategy, identifying and addressing any skill gaps or risks within the sector business operations.
- Schedule engineering discipline meetings, providing updates and recommendations to ensure that all reasonable and proper measures are taken to inculcate discipline expertise and innovation into project work.
- Develop and inform proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics – and accountable for planning, development and management of projects in compliance with all applicable City/State/Federal codes and regulations, and in accordance with all acceptable engineering practices.
- Interpret and summarize data, including reports and documents that result in sound engineering and regulatory conclusions.
- Provide verbal and/or written inputs to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.
- Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.
- Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to assigned staff.
- Remain current in latest transit and rail engineering techniques and practices.
- Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide “trusted advisor” service and future ready solutions for clients.
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures. Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline.
- 12+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering, prior transit and rail experience, and infrastructure design.
- Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).
- Project management and quality management experience leading a team of quality engineers, inspectors, and assessors.
- Proficiency with transportation and infrastructure engineering principles, practices, process, and design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
- Advanced proficiency with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.
- Works independently and provides guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
- Tactical lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, regulators, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exits.
- Proficiency with office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e., MicroStation, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, OpenRail), technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs. Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Engineering. Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $174,400 - $255,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
#LI-AC2
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
www.wsp.com
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
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Who's Hiring
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- Consulting & Professional Services
What New York Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in transportation project manager jobs across New York.
- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, transportation planning, or a closely related field
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred or required by most New York employers
- Professional Engineer (PE) license registered in New York State valued for senior roles
- Five or more years managing transportation or infrastructure projects from planning through construction
- Demonstrated experience coordinating with the NYSDOT, MTA, or New York City DOT on public projects
- Proficiency in project scheduling software such as Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project
Transportation Project Manager Jobs in New York: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a transportation project manager in New York?
Most transportation project managers in New York start with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, transportation planning, or construction management, then build field or design experience before moving into a project lead role. A Professional Engineer license issued through the New York State Education Department's Office of the Professions strengthens candidacy significantly, particularly for roles on NYSDOT or MTA capital programs. The PMP certification is a common additional credential that New York agencies and consulting firms look for when promoting into a full project management title.
How much do transportation project managers make in New York?
Transportation project managers in New York earn a median of about $127,180 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $80,430 for the lowest 10% to over $204,600 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire transportation project managers in New York?
Employers hiring transportation project managers in New York right now include WSP, LaBella Associates, and HNTB Corporation, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. New York's volume of public-sector capital programs means consulting engineers, construction managers, and state and city agencies all maintain steady demand for this role year-round.
Which New York cities have the most transportation project manager jobs?
New York, Rochester, and White Plains have the most transportation project manager openings in New York. New York City dominates because of the MTA's ongoing capital programs, the New York City DOT's active project roster, and the density of large engineering consulting firms headquartered or operating there, while Albany and Buffalo draw openings tied to NYSDOT regional offices and major highway and bridge rehabilitation programs upstate.
Are there remote transportation project manager jobs in New York?
Yes, but they're rare. Transportation project management involves active site coordination, agency meetings, and field oversight that require in-person presence for most of the role. About 40% of transportation project manager openings tied to New York are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, and those arrangements tend to cover planning-phase or program controls work rather than construction-phase management.
How can I get hired as a transportation project manager in New York with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is joining a large New York engineering or construction management firm as a project engineer or project coordinator, roles that AECOM, WSP, and Jacobs hire into directly from college. New York City's Department of Transportation and the MTA both run structured programs for early-career engineers that rotate through project delivery functions. Building toward a PE license through the New York State Education Department's Office of the Professions while in these junior roles positions candidates to step into a full project manager title within a few years.
Where can I find and apply to transportation project manager jobs in New York?
You can find and apply to transportation project manager jobs in New York on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Search the available roles, find the ones that match your experience and location, and apply directly to the employers posting them.
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