OverviewCordoba Corporation is seeking a Senior Project Manager to support major transit clients inimproving capital project delivery through permitting process improvement, regulatory strategy, lifecycle cost assessment, andowner/agency governance analysis. This rolewillalsomanage all project staff,scope, schedule, budget,andsubconsultants.The role includes clientcommunications and management, including identifying opportunities for new business.Theidealcandidate willpossessskills and experiencewith a variety of transportation projects, including roadway, civil, transit, utilities, and active transportationwith localstakeholders,municipalities, federal, county, state, and transit clients.
Permit and Regulatory Process LeadershipThis position will play a key role in improving transportation project delivery by strengthening permitting, regulatory coordination, and agency approval processes. The SeniorTransportationProject Manager will develop permitting strategies, manage agency coordination, track approval milestones, identify regulatory and stakeholder risks, and work across engineering, environmental, utility, right-of-way, construction, and client teams to resolve issues that could affect scope, schedule, budget, or quality. The ideal candidate will havedemonstratedexperience improvingapprovalworkflows, reducing permitting-related delays, and helping public-sector transportation clients move complex infrastructure projects through required reviews and approvals.
Responsibilities
- Leads permitting and regulatory coordination strategies for transportation projects involvingfederal,local, county, state, transit, utility, environmental, and right-of-way stakeholders.
- Identifiespermitting, regulatory, utility, right-of-way, environmental, and stakeholder approval risks early in the project lifecycle and develops mitigation strategies with project teams and clients.
- Develops and manages permit matrices, agency coordination plans, approval schedules, responsibility assignments, and escalation strategies to supporttimelyproject delivery.
- Facilitates coordination with agencies such asstate agencies, local municipalities, counties, transit agencies, utility owners, environmental/resource agencies, and other authorities havingjurisdiction.
- Reviews project delivery workflows andrecommendsimprovements to permitting, submittal, review, comment resolution, and approval processes.
- Leads cross-functional coordination among engineering, planning, environmental, utilities, right-of-way, construction management, and client teams to resolve approval barriers.
- Establishes metrics, dashboards, or tracking tools tomonitorpermitstatus, agency review cycles, comment resolution, commitments, and critical-path approvals.
- Supports proposal strategy byidentifyingregulatory, permitting, stakeholder, and approval-process risks and developing delivery approaches that improve client confidence.
- Provides project delivery oversight and accountability for assigned projects with a high degree ofproficiency.
- Effectively communicates project and technical approach to solving challenges.
- Participates in proposals and interviews as a technical leader.
- Provides ongoing mentoring, training, and support of internal technical team members.
- Maintains client and industry contacts and engages in professional industry organizations.
- Engages in recruiting and retention activities.
- Maintainsa positive working relationship with all levels of the organization.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor27s degree in engineering, planning, architecture, environmental science, public administration, construction management, law, urban planning, ora relatedfield.
- 10+ years27 experienceintransportation, transit, public infrastructure, permitting, regulatory strategy, capital delivery, program management, building department operations, or related consulting services.
- PE, AICP, PMP,JD, or similar credential preferred, but notrequired.
- Knowledge of overall public sector capitalprograms
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams through complex project approval processesresponsible forpermitting, environmental compliance,utility coordination, or regulatory approvals
- Proficiency inMicrosoftOffice,Excel,PowerPoint, and project management/reporting tools
- Prior experience with Sound Transit, WAtransit agencies, Puget Soundjurisdictions, or high-capacity transit projects is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated knowledge and history ofproject management, including project metrics
- Principles of supervision, training, and performance evaluation
- Excellent verbal, graphical, and written communication skillswith a variety ofpeople and personalities
Desired Experience
- Experience with transit, rail, bus rapid transit, transportation facilities, stations, operations and maintenance facilities, or other major public infrastructure programs.
- Experience working with or for a public owner, transit agency, city/county permitting department, building department, regulatory agency, or capital program management organization.
- Demonstrated understanding of land use approvals, building permits, technical permits, environmental permits, agency reviews,permitconditions, inspections, and construction-phase compliance.
- Experience evaluating permitting processes,approvalworkflows, jurisdictional responsibilities, or agency governance models.
- Familiarity with environmental permitting, regulatory coordination, mitigation commitments,permitcondition tracking, and construction-phase compliance.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skillswith the ability tocomunicatecomplex permitting, regulatory, technical, and organizational issues into clear recommendations for executive, board, and client decision-makers.
- Excellentfacilitation,negotiation, andstakeholder management skills.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and coordinating across engineering, environmental, legal, real estate, right-of-way, utilities, construction, operations, safety, and public agency stakeholders.
- Knowledgeof federal, state,and localpermitting and environmentalreview processes applicable tomajor infrastructure projects is strongly preferred.
Salary Range: $145,000 to $225,000 yearly
Location: Seattle, WA
Work Environment: Onsite
