Senior Trail Civil Engineer/ Project Manager
$120,000–$120,000 year
HybridDenver, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Lead and manage trail, greenway, bike/pedestrian, outdoor recreation, and multimodal transportation projects from early visioning and planning through design, permitting, construction documents, and implementation. Develop context-sensitive, sustainable, and constructible trail solutions that balance user experience, environmental stewardship, accessibility, durability, cost, and long-term maintenance. Serve as a trusted advisor to public agencies, parks and recreation departments, land managers, tribal communities, and community partners while collaborating with engineers, planners, landscape architects, environmental scientists, surveyors, and construction professionals to deliver integrated recreation and mobility projects. Support business development through client relationship building, pursuit strategy, proposal development, and identification of new trail and outdoor recreation opportunities. Mentor and develop junior staff while helping grow SEH's technical depth and market presence in trail planning, design, and project delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in landscape architecture, civil engineering, planning, environmental design, recreation planning, or a closely related field
- Professional licensure or certification such as PLA, PE, AICP, PMP, or similar credential, or the ability to obtain licensure/certification where applicable
- Significant experience leading trail, greenway, bike/pedestrian, outdoor recreation, or active transportation projects
- Demonstrated project management experience, including scope, schedule, budget, quality, client communication, and consultant coordination responsibilities
- Strong technical understanding of trail planning and design, including alignment development, grading, drainage, accessibility, constructability, permitting, cost estimating, and construction documentation
- Experience working with public-sector clients, land management agencies, community stakeholders, and multidisciplinary project teams
- Ability to travel as needed for client meetings, public engagement, site assessments, field reviews, conferences, and project delivery
- Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future
Desired Qualifications
- A minimum of ten (10) or more years of experience in trail planning, trail design, outdoor recreation, active transportation, parks, open space, or related public infrastructure projects
- A minimum of five (5) years of project management experience leading multidisciplinary trail, recreation, civil, or transportation projects
- Experience with natural-surface trails, paved shared-use paths, mountain bike facilities, river corridors, trailheads, parks, wayfinding, accessibility improvements, and/or outdoor recreation systems
- Knowledge of sustainable trail design, erosion control, stormwater management, environmental permitting, public engagement, and construction-phase services
- Demonstrated ability to develop client relationships, identify new business opportunities, support proposals, and help win work in the trail and outdoor recreation market
- Familiarity with Colorado, Arizona, Mountain West, or other regional trail and recreation markets, including municipal, county, state, federal, nonprofit, and land management clients
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