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Engineering Area Manager - Transportation Group (Mountain Region)

STV, Inc.
dental insurance, life insurance, vision insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k)
United States, Colorado, Denver
Oct 12, 2025

STV is looking to hire an Engineering design focused, Area Manager to drive strategic growth and market diversification across our Transportation Group throughout the Colorado & Utah Mountain region.

Your new role:

As the Area Managerbased in Denver, Colorado or Salt Lake City, Utah, you will be the highest-ranking executive of STV's Transportation Group for your region, reporting to the President of the Transportation West Region.

Join us at a pivotal moment. This business is poised for continued growth across the Mountain Region (Colorado & Utah) - and we hope that you will be at the heart of it. Being local, with boots on the ground, your performance creates a vibrant, growth-oriented, collaborative, and robust business, where you a trusted advisor to your transportation clients, a valued teaming partner, a leader in the industry, a mentor, and a thought leader passionate about developing future engineers to continue the legacy.

Joining STV's Transportation West Group, you will work closely with market sector leaders, area managers, and other discipline leaders to deliver comprehensive architecture, engineering, planning, and design services across the Transportation West Region.

Our market sectors span highway and bridge design, transit, and planning, working for clients such as the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), Regional Transportation District (RTD), City of Colorado Springs, Utah Transit Authority (UTA), and others. Under your leadership, you will mentor and lead an existing team of managers, engineers, inspectors, planners, and construction managers across the region while building strategies to maximize existing relationships and develop new ones across a broader geographic market.

What you'll be contributing to in this role:

You'll be accountable for planning and organizing the business and for making the operational decisions necessary to achieve STV's desired strategic and annual outcomes for the Area. These outcomes include targets and objectives for client relations, growth, project performance, efficiency, and talent development.

  • Representing STV with clients, the industry, and the broader community across Colorado & Utah, particularly with strong connections within the Denver metropolitan area and/or Salt Lake City, Utah.

  • Working with STV client service team leaders to ensure STV enjoys a robust relationship with its clients.

  • Maintaining close professional relationships with key people leaders within the transportation agencies, teaming partners, industry associations, and community organizations.

  • Creating and implementing plans that align with and achieve STV's strategic plan objectives.

  • Identifying, recruiting, and developing talent with the aim of growing the business and ensuring a strong line of succession for key leadership roles in the operation.

  • Providing effective management of STV's local business activities, including selection of STV's client mix and services offering, adding new clients, winning new work, execution of projects, hiring locally based personnel, resource planning, and controlling overhead expenditure.

  • Ensuring the operation adheres to STV's policies and procedures.

  • Identifying, mentoring, and training the next generation of future leaders.

  • Analyzing and understanding client, business, and industry issues that potentially affect STV's business in Colorado & Utah and preparing plans to position STV to capitalize on those trends.

  • Assessing the performance of the STV team members and taking action to rectify any shortfalls against expectations and to recognize and promote those of exceptional ability.

  • Analyzing and reporting on business performance and implementing timely measures to address adverse outcomes to ensure financial goals are achieved.

What you'll need to succeed:

  • Market Experience: Have 20+ years of experience in relevant Transportation market sectors (Highway, Bridge, Transit, Aviation) with a proven track record in strategic planning, business & client development, operations & financial P&L management.

  • Educational Background: BS/MS in Engineering.

  • Professional Registration: Registered Professional Engineer (PE) or Planner (AICP) in Colorado (and preferably additional states).

  • Market Specialization: You'll be a subject matter expert in one or more disciplines, such as highway design, structural design, hydraulics, construction management, planning, or Transit.

  • Multi-Disciplinary Technical Leadership: You will be a proven leader of multi-disciplinary design teams, including Project Managers, Engineers, Planners, Construction Managers, and Inspectors.

  • Business Growth: You will enjoy being both externally and internally facing, driving new business, optimizing relationships with existing clients, leading proposals/pursuit strategies, and leading a growing team of engineers and planners.

Step into a bold leadership opportunity where your expertise and passion for delivering exceptional transportation projects will shape the future of the Mountain Region. Bring your commitment to exceeding expectations and your deep understanding of client needs to lead transformative initiatives for some of the nation's most respected transportation agencies.

Compensation Range:

$211,320.25 - $264,150.31

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At STV, we are fully committed to expanding our culture of diversity and inclusion, one that will reflect the clients we serve and the communities we work in, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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 (16 days) * Paid Holidays (8 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.

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