Why TAIT?
- Strategic Leadership — Own projects from start to finish with autonomy and support
- Multifaceted Role — Blend design, team leadership, and client collaboration
- Technical Mastery — Lead complex land development using Civil 3D and AutoCAD
- Career Growth — Mentor engineers and grow with a collaborative team
- Real Impact — Shape infrastructure across grading, drainage, and utilities
Role at a Glance
At TAIT, our Public Works Project Managers don’t just manage projects—they help shape communities. As a key leader in our engineering team, you’ll guide the design and delivery of public roadway and utility improvements that improve everyday life. You’ll have both the autonomy and support to lead meaningful projects, develop strong client relationships, and mentor emerging talent.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Interface daily with clients, develop proposals, negotiate scopes and fees, ensure timely billing and collections and change orders.
- Spearhead plan processing at public agencies.
- Manage project staff to include design engineers and CAD operators, with the ability to mentor junior design staff in basic engineering procedures and techniques
- Assign tasks and keep the team on track and within budget.
- Identify design criteria and oversee efficient design and plan preparation
- Assist team members with design tasks to help develop skills.
- Assist the Director with marketing and client development for the Division.
- Solve design problems using engineering calculations and following general design standards.
- Establish project controls and ensure accuracy and quality in plans; ensure technical quality, profitability, schedule, project staff coordination, client communications and follow-up.
- Minimum 6-10 years’ experience in a Project Manager position with experience in public roadway and utility improvement design.
- Minimum 6-10 years’ experience designing public roadway infrastructure projects and writing construction specifications.
- Minimum 6-10 years’ experience in a Project Manager position with exposure to technical applications, management of projects and staff interaction.
- Minimum 6 years’ experience designing public roadway infrastructure projects.
- Previous experience in Land Development design projects with private and public works.
- B.S. in Civil Engineering.
- Current CA P.E. license required.
- Ability and experience writing construction specifications.
- Valid & current Driver’s License.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Current knowledge and familiarity using AutoCAD and Civil 3D.
- Expertise in the preparation of grading plans, utility plans, site plans and the preparation of preliminary cost estimates; strong design skills using AutoCAD and Civil 3D for land development design.
- Ability to apply proven principles of civil engineering within the context of an aggressive service-oriented business environment.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills and a desire to function in a position of high visibility both internal and external to the company; superior leadership and interpersonal abilities.
- Walk job site locations as needed.
- Carry/ utilize survey equipment if needed on job sites.
- Ability to drive a vehicle to job sites when required.
Salary Range $100,000/yr - $150,000/yr
Skills Required
- B.S. in Civil Engineering
- Current California P.E. license
- 6-10 years experience as a Project Manager in public roadway and utility improvement design
- Experience designing public roadway infrastructure projects and writing construction specifications
- Current knowledge and familiarity using AutoCAD and Civil 3D
- Expertise preparing grading plans, utility plans, site plans and preliminary cost estimates
- Valid and current Driver's License and ability to drive to job sites
- Ability to walk job sites and carry/utilize survey equipment as needed
- Excellent communication, organizational, leadership and interpersonal skills
What We Do
TAIT sets the standard for world-class live experiences. We bring extraordinary ideas to life, collaborating on visionary concepts and delivering precision engineering, technical innovation, manufacturing, and production. We engineer complex movement for artists, brands, performing arts spaces, and venues around the world with our industry leading show control and automation technology. We are a global team of planners, creative engineers, fabricators, technologists, and producers, with over 1200 employees in 17 office locations. We have worked in over 30 countries, all seven continents, and even outer space. Our clients include Taylor Swift, Cirque Du Soleil, The Metropolitan Opera House, NASA, National Geographic, Beyoncé, and The Olympics. In addition to the core custom project business, the TAIT Group includes like-minded companies operating as one cohesive group in the live experience space. Our team shares a passion for creating ground-breaking experiences, and together, our work makes lasting memories for hundreds of thousands of people. The TAIT Group includes productionglue, Kinesys, ITEC Entertainment, and the Thinkwell Group.
