Senior Highway Group Manager

        

Senior Highway Group Manager — Dallas-Fort Worth, TX

STV is looking for an experienced, relationship-driven Senior Highway Group Manager to help lead and grow our highway practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX area. This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for a proven transportation professional who wants to guide multi-disciplinary teams, strengthen key client relationships, and play a visible role in winning and delivering major highway design and alternate delivery projects across Texas.

Why STV?

At STV, you’ll have the opportunity to lead meaningful transportation work that improves mobility, supports growing communities, and helps shape the future of infrastructure across Texas. We offer the scale and resources of a national firm with the collaborative culture of a team that values relationships, technical excellence, and entrepreneurial leadership.

This role offers a platform to influence strategy, grow client partnerships, mentor talented professionals, and make a direct impact on STV’s continued growth in the Dallas-Fort Worth market. If you’re looking for a leadership opportunity where your relationships, technical credibility, and vision can help build something lasting, STV is a place to do it.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and grow multi-disciplinary highway design teams while shaping the direction of STV’s Texas Transportation practice.
• Serve as a trusted client partner to TxDOT, regional agencies, municipalities, teaming partners, and other key stakeholders, strengthening relationships that support long-term growth.
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities, develop pursuit strategies, and position STV for Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build opportunities across the Texas market.
• Partner with marketing, technical teams, and market leaders to develop compelling proposals, presentations, interview strategies, and client-facing pursuit materials.
• Represent STV in client meetings, pursuit interviews, industry events, and professional organizations to elevate our brand and expand our regional network.
• Prepare fee proposals, support negotiations, and review contract requirements in coordination with internal leadership.
• Provide senior-level oversight on project delivery, helping teams meet scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client expectations.
• Create leadership impact by setting team priorities, removing roadblocks, coaching project managers, and helping technical staff grow into larger client-facing and delivery roles.
• Support recruitment, hiring, development, and retention of top technical talent to build a strong, collaborative, and high-performing team.

In this role, your leadership impact will be visible in the people you develop, the client relationships you strengthen, the pursuits you help win, and the quality of the projects your teams deliver for communities across Texas.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering.
• Professional Engineer license in Texas, or the ability to obtain one.
• Established relationships and experience working with TxDOT and other regional transportation agencies.
• 15+ years of relevant highway design, transportation infrastructure, and project management experience.
• Experience leading large-scale highway projects; alternate delivery experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong leadership, communication, client service, and team-building skills.
• Local municipal experience and active involvement in professional organizations are a plus.

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Compensation Range:

$179,064.64 - $204,645.30

STV offers the following benefits • Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable) • Disability insurance • Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment • 401(k) Plan • Retirement Counseling • Employee Assistance Program • Paid Time Off (starting at 16 days) • Paid Holidays (9 days) • Back-Up Dependent Care (up to 10 days per year) • Parental Leave (up to 80 hours) • Continuing Education Program • Professional Licensure and Society Memberships

STV is committed to paying all of its employees in a fair, equitable, and transparent manner. The listed pay range is STV’s good-faith salary estimate for this position. Please note that the final salary offered for this position may be outside of this published range based on many factors, including but not limited to geography, education, experience, and/or certifications.

Not sure this role is the perfect match? We encourage you to apply if STV’s work and values resonate with you. We know great candidates don’t always meet every qualification, and research shows women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they do. At STV, we believe strong talent comes from a wide range of backgrounds, and your skills and experience may align with this or another opportunity as we continue to grow.