Senior Project Manager - Utility Capital Programs
Seattle, WA
Full-Time | On-Site/Client-Facing
About Your Role
CMTS is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager - Utility Capital Programs to support a major municipal utility capital improvement program in Seattle, Washington.
The Senior Project Manager will lead multiple task orders under an on-call public-sector contract. Assignments may include project planning, alternatives analysis, design support, construction-phase services, commissioning, and project closeout.
This position will serve as the primary day-to-day client contact while managing multidisciplinary project teams, engineering subconsultants, project controls, financial performance, quality, and contract compliance.
Education Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field
- Equivalent professional experience may be considered
What You'll Need to Get the Job
- At least 12 years of experience delivering public-sector capital projects
- At least five years of experience supporting municipal water, wastewater, stormwater, drainage, or related utility infrastructure projects
- Demonstrated experience managing task-order, on-call, or indefinite-delivery contracts for public agencies
- Experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and client expectations
- Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder-management abilities
- Proven leadership of multidisciplinary consultant and engineering teams
- Experience developing scopes of work, cost estimates, work authorizations, and task-order proposals
- Knowledge of public-agency contracting practices and consultant-services agreements
- Ability to successfully complete a background check
Preferred Qualifications
- Project Management Professional certification
- Professional Engineer licensure
- Experience supporting Seattle-area public agencies
- Familiarity with the City of Seattle contracting environment
- Experience with phased or stage-gate project delivery
- Knowledge of owner asset-management frameworks
- Experience working within a rotational or rapidly mobilized task-order environment
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the execution of task orders under a multi-award municipal utility on-call contract
- Direct projects involving planning, options analysis, preliminary engineering, final design, construction support, commissioning, and closeout
- Serve as the primary client contact for assigned task orders
- Develop, scope, price, negotiate, and execute task orders and work authorizations
- Mobilize multidisciplinary teams to meet changing client needs and project schedules
- Manage multiple concurrent assignments while maintaining schedule, budget, quality, and technical performance
- Direct engineering consultants, technical specialists, and subconsultant teams
- Manage subconsultant contracts, scopes, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and performance
- Prepare project budgets, financial forecasts, cost reports, and earned-value analyses
- Review invoices, monitor project profitability, and identify potential financial risks
- Lead project-progress meetings, executive briefings, stakeholder discussions, and client presentations
- Prepare executive-level reports, technical documentation, meeting summaries, and client correspondence
- Enforce quality-assurance and quality-control requirements for all project deliverables
- Confirm compliance with owner standards, technical specifications, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices
- Identify project risks and implement mitigation strategies to maintain project performance
- Support WMBE and DBE inclusion goals, subcontractor participation, supplier-diversity initiatives, and utilization reporting
- Contribute to proposals, Statements of Qualifications, technical narratives, interview preparation, and public-agency pursuits
- Mentor project staff and promote accountability, collaboration, and continuous communication across project teams
Skills and Abilities
- Strong project, program, and task-order management skills
- Advanced budgeting, forecasting, cost tracking, and financial-management abilities
- Excellent negotiation, conflict-resolution, and decision-making skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and changing client requirements
- Strong understanding of public-sector capital project delivery
- Knowledge of construction administration, commissioning, and project closeout
- Ability to build and maintain long-term client relationships
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, and technical-writing skills
- Proficiency with project-management, scheduling, financial, reporting, and document-control systems
- Strong attention to detail while maintaining a strategic understanding of overall program objectives
Compensation
$72.50-$85.00
