Salt River Project

Land Survey Project Manager

Salt River Project$90K — $120K *
Tempe, AZ 85281In-Person
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree related to the assignment preferred.
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant experience required; alternatively, 9 years of experience may substitute for a degree.
  • Proven knowledge of survey processes, systems, and software.
  • Background in land survey project management or related fields such as real estate transactions or environmental science preferred.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and managing complex projects with evolving requirements.
  • Strong interpersonal and leadership skills for cross-department collaboration.
  • Arizona Registered Land Surveyor registration required; CFedS certification preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Utilize project management techniques to prioritize work and achieve success on long-term infrastructure projects.
  • Lead contract mapping teams and improve communication with stakeholders.
  • Develop project base mapping cost estimates and ensure compliance with mapping standards.
  • Identify and analyze issues concerning projects' scope, cost, and risk, and provide solutions to decision-makers.
  • Generate timely communications on project progress, costs, and risks through data analysis and synthesis.
  • Support various project-related functions as assigned.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work option available, allowing telework up to three days per week for eligible roles.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training to enhance skills.
Full Job Description
Requisition ID: 20296

Summary

Responsible for managing generation, transmission, substation, and/or distribution base mapping projects for power and water infrastructure construction projects with budgets as large as $500M that span multiple years and have visibility across SRP's service territory and the entire State of Arizona. The Project Manager organizes and leads mapping teams representing five to ten contract mapping firms, while gathering, analyzing, and compiling information from multiple departments and collaborating with other project managers, subject matter experts, designers, and staff across the company. This involves creating and executing project plans that include schedules, activities, resources, estimates, contracts, risk assessments, and communications to ensure that milestones are achieved so SRP can meet its strategic objectives.

What You'll Do

  • Utilize project management principles, experience, knowledge, and skillsets to assist leadership and staff in prioritizing work, communicating effectively, and balancing competing interests to achieve success on complex, long-duration infrastructure projects
  • Assist leadership, department managers, project managers, and staff to lead mapping teams. Utilize project management systems to improve communications with key stakeholders, and support achievement of SRP's strategic and company objectives.
  • Contribute to the development of project base mapping cost estimates to ensure the competitiveness of the contract base mapping function. Assist with forecasting and reporting efforts; ensure compliance with accuracy, format, and mapping standards.
  • Identify issues related to scope, cost, schedule, resources, quality, benefits, communications, procurement, stakeholders, and risks across base mapping projects, providing analysis to decision-makers to resolve tradeoffs and meet project requirements
  • Facilitate the generation of timely communications regarding base mapping projects, including progress, costs, risks, and significant changes, by collecting, interpreting, and synthesizing data for internal stakeholders.
  • Perform other job-related functions as assigned.


Education

A bachelor's degree relevant to the assignment from an accredited institution is preferred.

Experience

  • Minimum 5 years of relevant experience required. In lieu of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience totaling 9 years may be considered.
  • Proven experience in applying and understanding existing survey processes, systems, and software.
  • Experience in land survey project management, real estate transactions, acquisitions due diligence, real property law, business analysis, financial analysis, regulatory analysis, environmental science, contract management, customer services, or any field that prepares the candidate for the assignment preferred.


Additional Requirements and Qualifications

  • Comfort working with ambiguity and on projects with incomplete and evolving requirements in a high-visibility, fast-paced, team environment.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively interact with departments across the company; including their leaders, project managers, and designers, as well as contingent and/or external mapping company leaders, project managers, land surveyors, and draftsmen.
  • Demonstrated leadership and management skills necessary to communicate, negotiate, collaborate, and manage change across multiple stakeholder departments within SRP to achieve strategic goals.
  • Critical-thinking capability and familiarity with analytical approaches to resolve issues associated with the base mapping of complex utility acquisition projects.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify, analyze, plan for, and respond to potential risks, and to make informed decisions under conditions of uncertainty.
  • Willingness and ability to continuously pursue academic, professional development, and training opportunities to enhance adaptability and develop the broad skillset required for success in this role.
  • Experience using Project Management Information Systems and Business Intelligence Systems for portfolio, program, and project-related reporting.
  • Registration as an Arizona Registered Land Surveyor required.
  • Certification as a Federal Surveyor (CFedS) preferred.


Hybrid Workplace

SRP currently offers a hybrid workplace, which allows employees whose jobs can be performed remotely, and who have sufficient technical capability, to telework up to three days per week. Although teleworking is available, all employees must live and work in Arizona.

About Salt River Project

Salt River Project (SRP) is a community-based, not-for-profit public power utility and water provider. SRP provides electricity to more than 1 million retail customers in the Phoenix metropolitan area and is the largest provider of power to the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. SRP also provides water to more than 2 million people in central Arizona. The company was founded in 1903 and is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona. SRP is governed by a publicly elected board of directors and is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy and water services to its customers.
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