Project Manager, Infrastructure

Project Manager, Infrastructure

Job

Location:

MD-8100 Professional Place

Full/Part Time:
Full-Time

Posting Open-Close: 12/02/2025 - 12/15/2025

Union: NRP

Regular/Temporary:
Regular

Join our team! WMATA’s Communications and Signaling Department is looking for a driven leader to manage tracking and life cycle planning for the billion+ dollars of assets maintained by the department. With assets ranging from automatic train control to video surveillance, fire alarm to radio communications to yard control, the ideal candidate will have a background working with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems, understand and be able to make sense of large data sets, and be able to develop and apply asset life cycle models to project operational and capital needs.

The ideal applicant must be able to tenaciously drive induction of new assets and their associated spare parts into the EAM system; collaborate with multiple stakeholder groups including engineering, maintenance, project delivery, supply change and reliability engineering to ensure our assets deliver on service excellence objectives and are maintainable; and to proactively identify new capital investments to maintain systems in a state of good repair and ensure financial efficiency.

Excellent communication (both informal and formal), data analysis, and planning skills are essential. Transit experience is preferred but not required.

• Education – Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Architecture, Planning, Construction Management, or related field of study; or in lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree, a High School Diploma/GED plus four (4) years of relevant work experience demonstrating progressively responsible management experience in planning, engineering, and/or construction project implementation, with direct fiscal responsibility.
• Experience – Minimum eight (8) years of experience in project management, including at least two (2) years managing professional staff, and/or field staff, contractors and/or consultants.
• Management experience in planning, engineering, and/or transit operational functions, with direct fiscal responsibility. Experience in major infrastructure projects is helpful.
• Certification/Licensure – Preferred:
  Training and certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP), continuous improvement training such as Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, ISO.
• Preferred – N/A.

Satisfactorily complete the medical examination for this position, if required. The incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of this position either with or without reasonable accommodations.

The Project Manager Infrastructure is the Subject Matter Technical Expert and leads project development and implementation of the Authority’s capital funded program for one or more construction, rehabilitation and/or modernization projects. Responsibilities include planning, staffing, and scheduling of projects related to budget management and capital investment improvement and includes complex activities related to the scopes of work, quality control, safety, and coordination of work performed by subcontractors and internal staff.

The position manages all phases of the projects, tasks, within scope, on schedule, and within budget. Additionally, the incumbent will identify scheduling and cost variances and implement recommendations for corrective action for negative variances. Specifically, this incumbent manages relationships, develops project scopes, negotiates hours, prepares reports, develops and maintains project schedules and budgets, directs and mentors project staff, and ensures quality reviews are complete.

Serves as Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR) to ensure contracts are managed in accordance with all project and stakeholder requirements.

• Reviews and comments on the Project Scope to ensure that program needs, schedule and costs are adhered to; coordination occurs between various departments and aspects of the project; and project elements are cost effective. Conducts research and prepares recommendations for complex project…