Project Manager, Transportation

Position Details

• Job Category: Environmental / Waste Management
• Posted: October 16, 2026
• Job Status: Permanent Full-Time
• Union: Non-Union
• Number of Positions: 1
• Hours of Work: 35
• Work Location: 92 Churchill, Chatham
• Department: Operations
• Closing Date: November 8, 11:59pm EST. Applications received after this deadline will not be accepted.

The Municipality of Chatham-Kent has an opening for 1 permanent full-time Project Manager, Transportation in the Operations division.

Job Description

The Project Manager, Transportation supports the development and implementation of programs, policies, by-laws and operations-focused projects related to the Municipality’s transportation operations, with a focus on transit services, parking programs, and traffic systems. This role delivers a myriad of project types including planning, procurement, contract administration, technology, policy, and program optimization.

Essential Responsibilities

General

• Demonstrate Chatham-Kent’s core values and competencies.
• Prepare and update policies, procedures and by-laws.
• Develop and administer legal agreements and service level agreements and identify incremental improvements/negotiations with current service providers under contract.
• Monitor overall progress in implementing the recommendations of relevant transportation plans, as directed.
• Maintain condition assessments and infrastructure management studies for transit, parking, and traffic infrastructure such as transit fleet, parking lot reviews, sign reviews, and railway crossings, and other infrastructure asset classes as assigned.
• Collect, analyze, interpret, and report on program and service performance indicators.
• Review development subdivision applications and provide comments from a transportation operations (i.e. transit, traffic and parking services) perspective.
• Identify new funding sources for planned projects or to mitigate service costs and assist the Manager with grant applications, as directed.
• Collect data to assist with grant reporting requirements.
• Oversee procurement for design and construction projects, including preparing tenders, requests for proposals, specifications and contract documentation.
• Manage contractors and consultants in the delivery of transportation operations projects and other design projects with varying degrees of complexity.
• Manage and coordinate field inspections, undertake and perform construction site inspection and contract administration, prepare payment certificates and ensure quality control on all assigned projects.
• Participate as a team member on multidisciplinary projects.
• Prepare reports to Council and present to Council when appropriate.
• Assist department with budget management and maintenance including lifecycle, operations, and capital budgets.
• Liaise with other departments, agencies, and general public on technical matters.

Transit Services

• Research emerging trends, technologies and applications for project delivery focused on Transit Services and identify current gaps by analyzing corporate, community and municipal data and projects.
• Explore opportunities for public/private partnerships and innovative ways to sustain public transit initiatives.
• Explore various opportunities for funding (capital, operating, health and wellness etc.) that will assist with the pilot project implementation and/or capital infrastructure investments (i.e. EV Charging stations, community transfer stations/bus shelters, on demand services and required vehicles etc.).
• Provide overall recommendation for transit pilot projects to be undertaken in order to plan for the current transit contracts to be renewed.
• Promote public transit through direct engagement as well as the development of promotional campaigns including press releases, website, and social media.

Traffic Operations

• Coordinate traffic count programs and carry out warrant reviews for traffic control devices and for traffic safety improvements.
• Perform traffic signal design, maintenance contract administration, and programming.
• Create programmatic and manual reports on data within infrastructure management databases.
• Manage the delivery of projects in the Operation Division including design, project, financial and construction management.

Parking Programs

• Manage parking meter infrastructure, parking programs, policy, and parking studies.
• Administer parking enforcement programs.
• Coordinate sign and pavement marking layouts.
• Optimize parking permitting and usage in urban communities.

Customer Service

• Respond to and resolve public complaints related to transportation inquiries and concerns through a variety of methods including by mail, email, or phone.
• Develop and deliver public engagement sessions, which may include oral and written presentations.
• Provide professional advice to internal and external committees and organizations as required.
• Create and implement promotion and education campaigns related to the division’s services.

Essential Qualifications

• College diploma or University Degree in Civil Engineering with a focus on transit or transportation engineering.
• Four (4) to six (6) years of transportation engineering experience with a focus on public transit and traffic systems.
• Experience in transportation project management principles and processes, including cost control and the lifecycle steps of initiation, planning, execution and project closure.
• Experience in planning, optimization, and implementation of efficient public transit system’ routes, schedules, and rider experience.
• Experience with traffic infrastructure design and engineering projects including, but not limited to traffic control studies, traffic control warrant reviews, traffic design and programming.