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# Program Manager at Stanley Consultants

- **Company:** Stanley Consultants
- **Location:** San Antonio, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/stanleygroup/33fda83d-7e6e-48e2-86d1-863e417706a5

## Job description

Stanley Consultants is an award-winning and industry-leading global consulting engineering firm, with an unmatched commitment to culture, values, and ethics. We are dedicated to client experience and solve the most complex challenges to create a sustainable, connected, and enriched world for all. As the world changes, Stanley strategically evolves with it, integrating the latest technology, innovation, and resiliency practices.

With over a century of experience serving the energy, federal government, transportation, and water sectors, we have helped improve lives and shape the infrastructure systems that connect us. As an employee-owned organization with a People First approach, we stand apart from other engineering consulting and services firms. At Stanley, your voice counts, your growth matters, and your success is our success.

Stanley Consultants offers flexible work options, competitive pay and great benefits, a strong sense of community, and the chance to build a meaningful, long-term career!

Job title - Program Manager Location -San Antonio, TX Job type - Onsite Requisition ID - 11390 Position Summary: This position is contingent on contract award. The Program Manager is a strategic leadership position responsible for building, growing, and institutionalizing Stanley Consultants' enterprise Program Management practice. This role serves as a bridge between executive leadership, market leaders, client service teams, and project delivery personnel to expand Stanley's services into higher-value advisory, program management, owner's representative, program management office (PMO), and capital improvement programs (CIP). As a practice builder you will steward existing programs and program staff, while leading the growth of this service area with existing and new clients across all sectors of our business. The Program Manager will support and enhance major client programs across Stanley's Water, Transportation, Energy, Federal, and Infrastructure markets while developing the tools, talent, processes, and client relationships necessary to establish a scalable national program management practice. This position requires a proven leader capable of operating at executive, client, and project levels simultaneously. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable advising C-suite executives, leading complex pursuits, improving delivery performance, developing strategic growth plans, and mentoring teams responsible for program execution.

What You Will Be Doing:

Practice Development & Strategic Leadership

- Develop and lead Stanley's enterprise Program Management practice across all markets and geographies.
- Establish strategic vision, service offerings, and operational standards for program management services.
- Develop repeatable tools, methodologies, governance frameworks, and best practices.
- Evaluate organizational capabilities and identify gaps in staffing, technical expertise, systems, and processes.

Program Management

- Provide technical, schedule, financial, and risk-management oversight during the design and pre-construction phases. Responsibilities include:
- Translating validated mission requirements into detailed Owner’s Project Requirements (OPR) and performance-based specifications.
- Establishing a project governance and decision-making framework that enables rapid, real-time Government approvals.
- Creating and maintaining an open-book risk register, risk allocation strategies, and contingency modeling.
- Performing continuous cost-estimating, independent cost analysis, and open-book cost reviews to establish a defensible, fair, and reasonable Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP).
- Managing collaborative design progression to balance strict budgets, tight schedules, and operational training requirements.

Required Qualifications:

Education

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Program Management, Business Administration, Public Administration, or a related field required.
- Master's degree preferred.

Certifications

- Relevant professional certification such as PE, Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), Certified Construction Manager (CCM), Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), or equivalent advanced credential preferred.

## Experience

- Minimum of 18 years of progressively responsible experience in program management, project management, infrastructure delivery, engineering consulting, construction management, or owner's advisory services.
- Minimum of 10 years of leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams, programs, or business units in support of Federal/DoD clients.
- Experience managing complex stakeholder environments involving Federal/DoD clients, contractors, and executive leadership.
- Experience managing $500M+ mega-scale programs.

## Skills & Competencies

- Strong understanding of engineering consulting operations, project delivery, financial performance, and resource management.
- Expertise in program governance, program controls, risk management, scheduling, and organizational change management.
- Ability to influence and lead across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.
- Strategic thinker capable of balancing long-term growth initiatives with immediate client and operational needs.
- Strong coaching and mentoring capabilities with demonstrated success developing future leaders.

Work-Life BalanceWe realize there’s more to life than just work. We help you meet the demands of work, family and personal life through several flexible options.

What we offer: Member-Owned. Member-ownership is at the heart of our culture, aligning client satisfaction, company performance, and personal reward. Paid Time Away. Stanley Consultants offers numerous paid holidays, generous paid time off (PTO), parental leave, and professional development leave. Health Insurance. We provide a comprehensive insurance package including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, Doctor On Demand, wellness reimbursement, and mental health resources. Financial Health. We offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, identity theft protection, and many other benefits. Professional Growth. When your skills grow, so do we, which is why we offer tuition assistance, professional society membership, and more. Financial Rewards. We share our prosperity with members through company stock ownership, a generous 401K match, incentive compensation, and profit-sharing contributions to retirement 401K plans. Click Here: A Great Place To Work

Learn more about Stanley Consultants in this short video:  Working at Stanley Consultants

Stanley Consultants does not welcome unsolicited resumes from staffing and recruiting agencies. Any unsolicited resumes submitted to Stanley Consultants, including but not limited to resumes submitted directly to Stanley Consultants members, or any of our representatives, will be deemed the property of Stanley Consultants.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

## About Stanley Consultants

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Stanley Consultants is an employee-owned engineering, design, and consulting firm that has been solving essential energy and infrastructure challenges for over 110 years.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Employee-Owned)
- **Headquarters**: Muscatine, Iowa, United States
- **Founded**: 1913
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Civil Engineering, Energy, Transportation, Water/Wastewater, Federal/State/Local Government, Industrial, Education, Healthcare
- **Target customers**: Federal, state and local governments; utilities; private-sector organizations of all sizes (B2B, Enterprise, Government)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Improving lives in the communities where we live and work” with a vision of “creating a connected, sustainable and enriched world.” [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Engineering & Design**: Full life-cycle project services including planning, design, procurement, management, commissioning, and permitting for capital projects. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)
- **Climate & Resiliency Services**: Through its subsidiary Resilient Analytics, the firm uses climate, engineering, and economic models to deliver actionable insights for infrastructure resilience. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)
- **Asset Management**: Digital capabilities to optimize built infrastructure, reduce risk, and support smart investment decisions. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)
- **Energy Solutions**: Safe, affordable, and reliable energy solutions for utilities and industrial clients, including power generation and modernization. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)
- **Environmental & Construction Services**: Full range of professional environmental, engineering, and construction services. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held, employee-owned)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – $198M (as of latest available data) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanleyconsultants)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Employee-owned; no external venture capital. Acquired Hartwig & Associates (2015), Traffic Engineering Data Solutions (2022), Resilient Analytics (2022). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanleyconsultants)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 776 (+6.3% YoY, +73 employees); named a USA Today Top Workplace three years in a row; presence in 15 countries (US, India, UAE, UK, Jamaica); completed over 50,000 engagements in 120 countries. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanleyconsultants) [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Employee Ownership**: Members (employees) own the company, aligning client satisfaction, company performance, and personal reward. This structure allows a long-term, partnership-based approach rather than short-term quarterly returns. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
- **110+ Year Track Record**: Proven expertise across all 50 US states and 120 countries, with deep relationships in government and utility sectors.
- **Multidisciplinary Full-Lifecycle Services**: Single provider for planning, design, construction, and asset management, reducing client complexity.
- **Climate Resilience Specialization**: Proprietary climate analytics through Resilient Analytics differentiates the firm in an increasingly important niche.

## Strategic Focus
- **Sustainability & Resilience**: Expanding climate science and resiliency services to help clients adapt to environmental changes. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)
- **Digital Transformation**: Leveraging cutting-edge digital capabilities for asset management and infrastructure optimization.
- **Market Diversification**: Serving federal, state, local, energy, water, transportation, industrial, education, and healthcare markets to reduce dependency on any single sector.
- **Talent Development**: Investing in internship programs (90% conversion to full-time offers) and professional growth to maintain a strong pipeline. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)

## Why Work Here
- **Employee Ownership Culture**: Members have a direct stake in the company’s success through stock ownership and profit-sharing, fostering a sense of ownership and alignment. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
- **Work-Life Balance**: Flexible work options, generous paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, parental leave, and professional development leave. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: Medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, wellness reimbursement, mental health resources, life insurance, disability insurance, identity theft protection. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
- **Financial Rewards**: 401(k) match, incentive compensation, profit-sharing contributions, and an annual opportunity to buy company stock at an independently appraised price. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
- **Professional Growth**: Tuition assistance, professional society memberships, mentorship, and multiple career tracks (project management, technical, business development, line management). [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers/professional-development)
- **Internship Program**: Hands-on experience with high conversion to full-time offers; 90% of interns receive job offers. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
- **Recognition**: USA Today Top Workplace for three consecutive years, based on employee feedback. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)

## Sources
1. [stanleyconsultants.com](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/)
2. [stanleyconsultants.com/careers](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers)
3. [stanleyconsultants.com/careers/professional-development](https://www.stanleyconsultants.com/careers/professional-development)
4. [linkedin.com/company/stanleyconsultants](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanleyconsultants)
5. [jobs.lever.co/stanleygroup](https://jobs.lever.co/stanleygroup)

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