Senior Project Manager-Highways Roads

Key responsibilities include:

• Project Leadership & Delivery: Direct the planning design and execution of transportation projects including highways interchanges local roads roundabouts trails and bridges ensuring delivery excellence innovation and client satisfaction.
• Business Development & Market Growth: Proactively identify pursue and secure new business opportunities with public and private sector clients. Lead the development of winning proposals presentations and interviews. Build and maintain a robust pipeline of work through strategic networking and market intelligence.
• Client Relationship Management: Serve as a trusted advisor to key clients agencies and stakeholders. Develop long term partnerships and ensure exceptional client service throughout the project lifecycle.
• Team Management & Development:Lead mentor and inspire multidisciplinary project teams. Fostering a culture of collaboration accountability and continuous improvement. Support staff development through coaching training and succession planning.
• Financial and Risk Management: Oversee project budgets schedules and resource allocation. Drive project profitability and manage financial performance including forecasting earned value tracking and variance analysis. Proactively identify and mitigate project risks.
• Technical Excellence & Quality Assurance:Provide senior technical oversight and ensure quality compliance with Caltrans AASHTO and local agency standards. Champion quality assurance and control throughout all project phases.
• Innovation & Best Practices: Lead the adoption of emerging technologies digital delivery tools and industry best practices to enhance project outcomes and client value.
• Change & Risk Management: Implement structured change management and risk mitigation strategies to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Strategic Leadership: Contribute to regional business planning market analysis and the development of long-term growth strategies for the transportation group.
• Project Governance: Clarify roles and responsibilities within the project team and ensure project compliance with the organizations wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
• Portfolio Management: Plan and manage the delivery of projects within an area of professional expertise using an appropriate project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are achieved.
• Project Team Management: Lead large project teams (or multiple small- to medium-sized teams); define the project vision communicate the necessary outcomes and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; coordinate team actions across project activities; coordinate the flow of additional team members on and off the team as needed; and build the capability of the team through training coaching and mentoring.
• Project Risk and Issue Management: Manage identification of risks issues dependencies and constraints associated with the project escalating these matters where appropriate. Where necessary develop agree on and implement solutions to overcome these concerns.
• Project Resource Management: Negotiate and manage deployment of project resource budgets providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
• Leadership and Direction: Communicate the actions needed to implement the functions strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organizations mission vision and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
• Personal Capability Building: Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation where relevant to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology external regulation and industry best practices through ongoing education attending conferences and reading specialist media.
• Transformational Change Management: Manage projects or substantial workstreams within a transformational change program ensuring integration with related projects; use structured change management methodologies to build acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.
• Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders to develop positive stakeholder relationships and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice.
• Project Scope Definition: Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering analysis and stakeholder consultation activities and specify negotiate and agree on project deliverables.
• Project Assurance: Manage the delivery of assurance reviews within a project enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time budget and quality.

Education

• Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering or related field masters degree preferred

Experience

• 12 years of experience in transportation project management with a strong background in planning design and delivery of highway roadway and active transportation projects.
• Registered Civil Engineer in the State of California Required
• Demonstrated success in business development client management and securing major project wins.
• Extensive experience managing projects for Caltrans local agencies and federally funded programs.
• Advanced proficiency with project management software and tools (e.g. MS Project Earned-Value Management).
• Deep knowledge of Caltrans and AASHTO standards and expertise in PS&E package development.
• Excellent communication leadership and organizational skills.
• Experience with alternative delivery methods (e.g. Design-Build CMGC) is highly desirable.
• Construction phase and program management experience is desirable.
• Experience managing multi-office or multi-disciplinary teams is preferred.
• Experience working in a consulting environment and managing multiple concurrent projects is preferred.

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