Highway Project Manager

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Job Description:

Our Parsons Chicago office is now hiring an experienced Highway Project Manager to join our transportation team! In this role you will get the opportunity to market, manage and oversee IDOT, Tollway and various transportation projects in the greater Chicagoland area in addition to projects across the Midwest Region. Join our expanding Chicago transportation team to lead and support the planning, and design, for these types of capital improvements.

This is a key role on our engineering team and the successful candidate must have a strong background in highway planning and design of major urban and rural interchanges, highway and arterial widening and major river crossings.

Parsons’ extensive experience in this field, combined with your management and technical guidance, will propel your career forward with opportunity for advancement with top performance. We need our Project Managers to be versatile as well as have exceptional communication, analytical and management skills. In this role you will provide management and direction for one or more infrastructure improvements at any given time.

Must be a team player to fit within an experienced group of professionals.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as Project Manager/Director for large scale engineering projects and directs the overall project development activities and client coordination for those projects.
• Develops scope, design budget estimates, schedules and staffing requirements for the major projects and assists other PM’s in the development of similar activities for various other projects.
• Monitors progress and reports to senior management on financial and schedule issues that may arise.
• Oversees the assignment of staff to maximize efficiency, maintain schedules, and to meet budget goals. Keeps alert to possible problem areas and takes preventative action to ensure that critical milestones are met for each phase of the project. Works with other PM’s to balance workload across multiple disciplines.
• Ensures the use of sound engineering practices to attain required quality control at the maximum efficiency and minimum cost.
• Prepares periodic reports summarizing progress of project development activities for management
• Ensures effective implementation of all Client policies and procedures.
• Maintains strong working relationships with various transportation clients and project stakeholders to advance project progress.
• Desire to lead Client management teams
• Strong leadership skills in capture management and proposal development
• Attend and engage in industry functions on and off hours. i.e. ACEC, WTS, IRTBA, ASCE, etc.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (or related field);
  Masters Degree preferred
• 20+ years of related work experience, including supervisory/managerial experience
• Significant managerial experience of a large group of Engineers, Designers, and technical support personnel
• Demonstrated experience serving in a role of project management on major road and highway project with IDOT and/or IDOT;
  City, County, regional and national projects a plus.
• Professional Illinois Engineer registration;
  Iowa and Wisconsin a plus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Thorough knowledge of industry practices and regulations is required
• Must also possess a thorough knowledge of current technology and the capabilities and efficiencies of specific engineering software for use in completing engineering assignments

Security Clearance Requirement:

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.