Job Description:

Project Manager - Utility Project Managment

Purpose:

Under minimal supervision, this position is responsible for managing the work involving the coordination of one or more large or moderately complex administrative projects or activities that require a high degree of specialized knowledge.

Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:

Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.

• Manages the design, development, and implementation of projects to include, but not limited to, gathering and defining the project requirements; obtains staffing requirements; and forms projected teams.

• Manages the selection process and administers consultant services, including negotiating contract terms and fees by negotiating the contract, approving the consultant's product, approving payment to consultant, initiating poor performance remedies, etc.

• Develops short- and long-range plans for future to ongoing projects, including estimating timelines for start-up and completion of projects.

• Manages, monitors, and reviews contracts and contractors to ensure compliance with contractual obligations, including administering change orders and estimates.

• Coordinates and prepares reports and correspondence in response to requests for information from City Manager's Office, Mayor, and City Council Offices; prepares City Council agenda material such as ordinance memorandums and presentations.

• Prepares and delivers presentations to the City Manager, management team, and department directors.

• Suggests and implements management solutions to address new or ongoing challenges faced by the City organization.

• Manages the performance of professional staff in work involving organizational structure review and operations research and related work reviewing departments, divisions, and programs.

• Assists in planning, directing, and coordinating, through subordinate level staff, the department work plan; meets with management staff to identify and resolve problems; assigns projects and programmatic areas of responsibility; and reviews and evaluates work methods and procedures.

• Provides technical advice and assistance to City management, field personnel, contractors, etc.

Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised:

May provide leadership and/or supervision to assigned employees or project management.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Knowledge of laws, rules, regulations, and codes associate project assignment.

• Knowledge of project accounting and methodologies and the principles, methods, and practices of project management.

• Knowledge of design principles, practices, procedures, and estimating techniques.

• Knowledge of budget policies and principles.

• Knowledge of contract policies and procedures.

• Skill in adapting, interpreting, and applying guidelines and standards.

• Skill in establishing and maintaining positive relationships with internal and external customers.

• Skill in using available applicable software packages.

• Skill in evaluating contract agreements.

• Skill in negotiating with various audiences to accomplish objectives.

• Skill in written and oral communications including public presentations.

• Skill in completing projects within the required scheduling.

• Ability to make prompt decisions and develop new and relative ideas for providing a quality product and quality customer service with little or no supervision.

• Ability to perform all facets of projects with little or no supervision.

• Ability to plan, execute, and control a project (establishing realistic estimates and reporting metrics).

• Ability to assess and analyze project risks and exposures, identify options and alternatives, make decisions, and implement corrective actions.

• Ability to exercise sound judgment, tact, and diplomacy in all public contacts.

• Ability to resolve conflicts and difficult situations.

• Ability to communicate in oral or written format to a variety of audiences.

Minimum Qualifications:

Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a related field or major coursework in project management, plus six (6) years of progressively responsible work experience in managing projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing design and construction of water, wastewater, utilities, and stormwater conveyance engineering projects.

• Experience reading and interpreting construction contract documents and drawings for water, wastewater, utilities, and stormwater conveyance engineering projects.

• Experience in using contract documents in resolving disputes or claims for engineering design and construction projects while handling complex situations with many stakeholders with many competing priorities to effectively and quickly come to mutual resolution

• Experience developing and monitoring schedules and budgets for the design and construction of water, wastewater, utilities, and stormwater conveyance engineering projects in a government setting, either with the City of Austin, another municipality, or a governing agency.

• Experience with tunneling design or construction activities.

• Ability to discern when to progress projects independently and when to seek guidance.

• Ability to travel to more than one work location.

Notes to Candidate:

Salary: $85,120.00 to $109,400.00

Location: 505 Barton Springs Rd. Austin, TX, One TX Center

Working Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 5:00 Telework: Up to 60% teleworking available

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Position Overview:

This exciting opportunity to engage with project delivery of interesting and complex projects that provide a long- term benefit to the citizens of Austin. Projects include fast paced and long-range design and construction with advancement in water and wastewater treatment and conveyance using cutting edge technologies and tried and true systems to meet the utility goals.

Application Details:

• A detailed, complete City of Austin employment application is required to help us better evaluate your qualifications.  For each position, please describe your specific experience as it relates to the minimum and preferred qualifications.  Please be thorough in completing the employment application and list all experience that is relevant to this position.

• This position may allow for a resume or cover letter to be included but relevant entries on your employment application will primarily be considered for interview qualification and compensation purposes.

• If you are selected as the top candidate for a position, we may be contacting your current and former employer, as well as the references listed in your application. Please be sure you have listed at least 3 previous supervisors in the application with correct contact information.

Note:

• Please be aware that the Job Posting Close Date reflects the final day to apply, but the posting will close at 11:59 PM the day before the date listed. All application steps, including attachments and submission, must be fully completed before that time.

• We also recommend that you save or print a copy of the job posting for your records. Once a posting has closed, it will no longer be viewable in the system.

Additional Details:

• This position will require a skills assessment.

• If you are identified as a top candidate, verification of your education, which may include High School graduation or GED equivalent, undergraduate and/or graduate degrees, will be required.

• The Capital Delivery Services Department may close this job posting at any time after it has been advertised for seven (7) days, please apply as soon as possible if interested.

Travel:

The Capital Delivery Services Department is comprised of multiple facilities located throughout Austin. If you are selected for this position and meet the Driver Safety Standards in the City of Austin Driver Record Evaluation you may drive when necessary to multiple locations as part of your regular job duties. Otherwise, you are responsible for getting to and from these locations.

Hybrid Work Environment:

The City of Austin Telework Program is designed to empower employees and leaders to establish hybrid work arrangements that promote high levels of performance and engagement. The City of Austin has an established work arrangement under which an employee is scheduled to work at least 2 days per week at their designated worksite. Some positions may require additional time at their designated worksite.

90 Day Provision for Additional Vacancy:

If the same or an additional vacancy occurs within the Capital Delivery Services Department in the same job title within 90 days after the start date of the top candidate, the additional position may be offered to another top candidate from the same candidate pool.  This may include filling other vacancies with the same job title in other division/work locations within the City of Austin, Capital Delivery Services Department.  Decisions on assigned selection may be made at the time of hire based on the business needs of the department.
 

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