Senior Project Manager – Transportation Asset Management; NYC Metro

Senior Project Manager – Transportation Asset Management (NYC Metro)

At GHD Advisory, we are invested in creating sustainable commercial outcomes with clients driving change in water, energy, and urbanization. Join a team committed to solving complex challenges across the value chain, from capital deployment to asset management, enabling resilience, growth and sustainability. Together, we’ll help create a future for generations to come.

GHD Advisory is expanding our Asset Management practice following our recent wins with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ) and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on-call contracts. We are seeking a Senior Project Manager – Transportation Asset Management to build and grow our presence across major transportation clients in the Northeast. This position is ideal for a dynamic seller‑doer who understands transportation infrastructure, can mine existing on-call contracts, strengthen our relationships with PANYNJ, MTA, and other agencies, and lead delivery of high‑profile asset management, capital planning, and infrastructure advisory projects.

You will work as part of GHD’s North American Asset Management Advisory practice and collaborate across our Business Groups (Advisory, Transportation, Water, Data & Analytics) in a “One GHD” delivery model.

• Business Development & Seller‑Doer Responsibilities
  • Lead strategic growth within PANYNJ and MTA on-call contracts, identifying, shaping, and winning task orders.
  • Develop and grow client relationships with regional transportation agencies (NJDOT, NYSDOT, NYCDOT, Amtrak, NJ Transit, CDTA, etc.).
  • Lead proposal development, capture planning, interviews, scopes, LOE development, and pricing strategies.
  • Contribute to GHD’s Northeast transportation market strategy and strengthen our branding and thought leadership.
• Project & Program Delivery
  • Serve as Project Manager, Deputy Project Manager, Asset Management Lead, or Client Service Manager on transportation AM engagements.
  • Oversee delivery of transportation AM assignments, including:
    • Asset inventory & condition assessments
    • Lifecycle modeling and 20–30‑year capital planning
    • State of Good Repair frameworks
    • Risk‑based prioritization and resilience assessments
    • Work order management / CMMS improvements
    • Integration of GIS, Maximo, enterprise data, and analytics
  • Manage multidisciplinary project teams across advisory, engineering, and digital.
  • Ensure high‑quality deliverables, project controls, schedule, and budget performance.
• Leadership & Collaboration
  • Mentor junior staff and contribute to internal AM capability building.
  • Help develop and refine GHD’s transportation AM methodologies, models, and frameworks.
  • Support cross‑practice initiatives involving data analytics, digital twins, and capital program optimization.
• Consulting Project Design/Delivery
  • Design the project architecture, building on the initial proposal and client interviews to develop a solution that meets the client's stated requirements and addresses any identified client issues.
  • Deliver training, facilitate workshops with management, and provide advice and reports to address identified client issues. Lead a small team where needed to ensure maximum client satisfaction.
  • Develop innovative approaches and write materials that are highly visible—such as slide decks for presentations on innovative solutions to top management, or bespoke and market‑leading client reports—to complete the work of the client team.
  • Participate in and contribute to a community of practice in a defined area of expertise or consulting to build own capability and develop innovative practice among colleagues.
  • Collate and conduct analysis of the tactical and operational information gathered through interviews and research to support the diagnosis of underlying client issues and problems and the design of single solutions.
  • Conduct interviews following an established framework of questions to gather information on client issues.
  • Facilitate process development workshops with subject‑matter experts, drive agreement on process flows across functional areas, and document processes and activity workflows to…