Design Director / Design Manager - Transportation

Do you want to lead some of Denmark’s most significant transportation and infrastructure projects and help shape sustainable mobility for future generations? Can you successfully deliver complex, multidisciplinary projects while building strong relationships with clients and stakeholders? And are you an experienced Project Manager with a proven track record in large-scale transportation and infrastructure projects? Then, join COWI and make your mark on the projects that connect communities and create lasting societal value. Create the solutions that will enable a better tomorrow
To drive the successful delivery of major infrastructure projects and create lasting value for society, we are looking for a Project Director and a Design Manager to join our team. You will join a professional team and work closely with experts across the organisation, either within Project Management or Design Management. Together the units are leading the largest and most complex infrastructure projects across Denmark.

We are more than 400 transportation and infrastructure specialists working alongside our customers on some of the most significant infrastructure projects. And we are thrilled to have contributed to projects like the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link, Kalundborg and E45 and E20 Highway projects. Currently we are involved in large complex projects like Billund-Give Highway project, CHP Airport, Odense Tramway and our project portfolio is broad, ranging from urban development projects to highways, airports and other civil works projects for clients like Energinet, Novo and Lego.

You will become part of a strong professional community at your level across Transportation in Denmark. This includes dedicated forums where Project Managers collaborate, share best practices, and develop their capabilities, as well as a strategic forum for Design Management focused on shaping direction, driving excellence, and strengthening our collective impact.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Manage large complex projects or a project portfolio across the Infrastructure Sector.
• Ensure profitability and KPIs for own projects.
• Build customer relations at strategic level.
• Support the overall development of the business area, and contribute with market initiatives, offers and customer dialogues.

Work location
The role can be based in any of our offices in Denmark: Lyngby, Aalborg, Aarhus, Esbjerg, Odense, Ringsted and Vejle. We work in international and multidisciplinary teams, and many of our projects are delivered across offices and borders.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways, but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you will have:

• A degree in Engineering, Project Management, or another relevant discipline.
• Deep industry expertise within infrastructure and transportation.
• Fluency in English and Danish, both written and spoken.

A place to work and so much more
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.
With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

Want to know more?
Get to know us even better at our website, , where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Before you apply
All you need to include in your application is your CV – no photo or application letter. Instead, simply include a few lines describing your motivation for applying. As for the photo, we prefer to form our first impression in person rather than from a picture.

Diversity is fundamental to COWI, inclusion is key
We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.