Job Details

Position Overview

The Project Manager for the Mobility Infrastructure Group in the Design Services Group oversees the management and delivery of engineering and infrastructure projects from conception to completion. This role includes defining project scope and schedules, allocating resources, and providing technical support to professional staff. The Project Manager leads communications with project teams, ensuring successful project delivery. Responsibilities include planning and executing feasibility studies, preliminary engineering design, alternative analysis, risk analysis, cost estimation, environmental clearance and mitigation, final design, right-of-way acquisition, and utility coordination and relocation. Initially focusing on parking lots, roadways, sidewalks, and trails, the Project Manager's work may expand across various engineering fields based on their expertise and initiative.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist with consultant procurement and manage internal and external resources to adequately staff the project.
• Lead the delivery team, including contract negotiation and managing the project budget.
• Use Harris County Design Software and Resources to produce complete studies and permitted plan sets.
• Promote project controls, tracking, and enhanced reporting using Project Management Software (i.e., eBuilder), advancing projects from planning to design, to construction, to occupancy.
• Utilize the software to manage project scopes, costs, schedules, and documents.
• Maintain responsibility, oversight, and knowledge of the entire portfolio of projects assigned to the Project Management Team.
• Meet regularly with department management and senior client representatives to discuss their projects.
• Identify and address risk to schedule, budget, or performance with subordinate project managers and engage management as necessary to resolve issues and mitigate risks before impacting project delivery.
• Work closely with assistant project managers, graduate engineers, consultants, and other related subject matter experts in the preparation of planning and construction documents and complete ancillary support tasks to successfully bid and award capital roadway projects.
• Ensure that quality assurance, risk management, regulation compliance, and permitting are properly executed.
• Utilize the Project Management Institute (PMI) business model and work closely with the Capital Improvement Division leadership to track and report project status.
• Work closely with management to monitor and adjust internal processes that further promote efficient project execution, including assisting with the development of written plans to document processes for use by Design Services staff, support staff, and outside team members to ensure project delivery consistency.
• Conduct the full range of supervisory duties for assigned Project Managers, including workplace safety, training and development, performance management, staffing, policies and procedures, and balancing workload.
• Adapt when emergencies or short turnaround projects arise.
• Perform other duties as assigned, including emergency or disaster event support.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Technology, or Construction Management from an ABET-accredited college or university.

Experience:

• Minimum Five (5) years of Design Experience related to horizontal projects such as site development, roadway & bridges, and/or drainage construction projects.
• Experience in designing sidewalks, bike lanes, traffic or pedestrian signals, and all related supporting infrastructure.
• Experience in AutoCAD and Civil 3D in the production of construction documents/plans.
• Military service in an applicable field is acceptable.

Licensure:

• Valid Texas Driver's License upon hire, with a good driving record.
• EIT certification in the state of Texas.
• PE License in the State of Texas or the ability to obtain a PE license in 6 months.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills, with the ability to deal tactfully with a diverse group of people in a professional manner.
• Ability to read, interpret, and create construction plans, estimates, and specifications.
• Ability to exercise flexibility in accommodating shifting priorities, demands, and schedules.
• Ability to drive a county vehicle to various job sites as needed to accomplish tasks and projects.

Position Type and Typical Hours of Work:

• Full-Time | Regular | 40 hours per week
• Hybrid schedule: Three days in the office and two days working from home.
• Subject to early mornings, late evenings, weekends, and holidays at times, depending upon the project or workload.

Salary:

• Commensurate with experience, based on 26 pay periods.

Physical Demands and Environmental Exposure:

• Most assignments will be performed in an office, meeting, or operations command center environment, but some field work may be required. May be required to work extended hours during activation of disaster recovery operations for an unspecified length of time (varies based on the extent of the event).
• This position requires bending, stooping, and lifting to 25 lbs., frequent walking, standing, sitting, reaching, and ascending/descending stairs.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Featured Benefits:

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Wellness
• Professional development opportunity
• Flexible spending account
• 457 deferred compensation plans
• Retirement pension (TCDRS)
• Transportation assistance (Metro Ride Sponsor Program)
• Disability and life insurance
• Harris County is a Qualified Employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)

Employment may be contingent on passing a drug screen and meeting other standards. Due to a high volume of applications, positions may close prior to the advertised closing date or at the discretion of the Hiring Department.