Position DescriptionManages advanced engineering, architectural, or construction projects, providing leadership in planning, oversight and compliance with state and federal regulations. Oversees project objectives, ensures quality assurance/quality control, and maintains project integrity. Work requires extensive contact with agency management, governmental officials and private entities. Serves as a lead worker. Employees at this level are virtually self -supervising and assume direct accountability for the work product.
Essential Duties:- Reviews and analyzes project performance and objectives to determine opportunities for improvement across personnel, processes, and technology.
- Serves as a lead worker by advising, training, and coaching employees to increase job efficiency; acting as a resource for complex questions; presenting workflow and operational updates to the supervisor/manager; providing input on team members' career conversations; and approving leave requests to ensure operations coverage
- Analyzes and reports on advanced and highly complex program funding change scenarios and their impact to individual project schedules.
- Coordinates project activities with other state agencies, governmental jurisdictions, or private sector partners and contractors and assures coordination and approvals through Federal Highway Administration or U.S. Department of Transportation.
- Compiles and distributes project information, status reports, and project budget expenditures.
- Directs, develops, implements, and evaluates project budgets, schedules, work plans, resources requirements, and cost estimates and projections.
- Identifies potential project impediments, risks, and issues; and designs strategies to mitigate or avoid them.
- Monitors and manages project cost and quality to ensure project is completed within budget and to ensure deliverables are acceptable and fulfill the terms of the project contract or specifications.
- Oversees project assignments, determines work requirements to complete project plans and coordinates scheduling to accommodate projects already underway.
- Oversees and monitors the inspections of construction methods, workmanship and maintenance procedures to ensure contractors build, install, maintain and repair traffic control/data collection related equipment or facilities in accordance with plans, specifications and contract requirements.
Minimum Qualifications:Education: Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline. Relevant experience may be substituted for education on a year per year basi s. Substitutions for Minimum Qualifications
Experience: 6 years of experience in construction project management; project management, process engineering and/or business process improvement methodologies. (Experience can be satisfied by full time or prorated part time equivalent).
Licenses and Certifications:
- Valid US driver's license. This position requires driving a state vehicle.
Competencies:- Critical Path Method for managing projects
- Industry guidelines, specifications and codes in the production and use of technical plans for the development and delivery of products and services
- Applicable plans, specifications and estimates preparation, review, processing and compliance requirements
- Applicable project development (planning, environmental, right of way, design, letting, construction, and project close out) document preparation, review, processing and compliance requirements
- Project Delivery Process
- Project scheduling and coordination activities
- Systems and procedures used to evaluate a third-party vendor's performance
- Public relations for maintaining effective working relationships with individuals and groups, both internal and external
- Addressing changes in scope and budget
- Communicate effectively
- Analyze complex information and develop plans to address identified issues
- Follow applicable safety standards, practices and procedures
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:- Sedentary work: Lift up to 10 lbs at a time and occasionally carry files/small tools
- Light work: Lift up to 20 lbs at a time and frequently lift or carry objects up to 10 lbs
- Standing-prolonged periods of time
- Repetitive Motion-substantial movements of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers
- Close Visual Acuity-work includes data/figures; view a computer screen; extensive reading
Conditions of Employment:Please click this link to read the standard conditions of employment for all positions: Standard Conditions of Employment (TxDOT)
