Project Manager - Transportation

Overview

MSA has an opportunity for a Project Manager - Transportation in our Duluth, MN office. You will have the opportunity to see, and contribute in, projects from start to finish. The various projects you’ll be working on make a significant and positive impact on the communities you serve.

What does it mean to serve communities for over 100 years? It means doing the type of work that helps people raise a family, grow a business, engage with their neighbors, and enjoy a variety of unique, enduring spaces that form the fabric of “home.”

MSA’s roots reach back to 1919. What began with an entrepreneurial solo practitioner in Baraboo, Wisconsin, has grown into a robust and thriving company of over 400 employee-owners working across the country. As a 100% employee-owned firm, we mean it when we say we “own” our work. We stand behind the quality of our designs, the integrity of our people, and the generations of client relationships we’ve formed based on trust, firm handshakes, and the belief that together — we can accomplish anything.

• Responsible for assembling internal and external resources necessary to complete a project with a high degree of complexity often involving more than one team and more than one service line.
• Serves as primary point of contact for project team for workshare coordination
• Leads a project team to deliver technical projects through the following phases:
  • Pursuit: Performs marketing and business development in partnership with Team Leader, Client Liaisons, and Client Service Managers.
  • Initiation: Evaluates opportunities, current workload, client risks, potential profit, competition, etc. and makes an informed decision/recommendation to pursue or not pursue.
  • Planning: Create a sound and accurate scope of services through developed understanding of the project and communication with client. Review and prepare proposals and follow up with client. Create Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and budget/fee estimates.
  • Execution: Prepare effective and documented communications with client, project team, and other key stakeholders. Stamps and or certifies deliverable documents as appropriate
  • Close-out: Ensure delivery on all commitments, conduct quality reviews, and utilize a process or checklist to close out the project.

• Experience and understanding of Department of Transportation design principles and submittal processes.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, construction management, engineering, or related degree preferred.
• Professional Engineer license in Minnesota is preferred.
• Six years of related experience or five years with an advanced related degree for PE individual
• In-depth knowledge of the philosophies, principals, practices, and techniques of their discipline as well as project management
• Ability to work in a team environment while organizing and prioritizing changing workload
• Ability to negotiate persuasively to produce positive outcomes, instill trust and confidence from others, and demonstrate high personal and professional standards in performance
• Proven initiative in the development and completion of projects
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage projects
• Demonstrated ability to manage program investments, expenses, and receivables, and other costs over a sustained period
• Strong organizational skills to work independently and manage projects with many moving parts and successfully meet deadlines
• Desire and ability to mentor less experienced staff
• The selected candidate must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future. We are unable to provide or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.

• Better Together – A collaborative work environment that promotes open doors, new ideas and honest opinions, and space to bring our authentic selves to work, and where opportunities to learn and succeed are afforded to all, and in which diversity of perspective leads to an innovative and successful employee‑owned firm.
• Multi-disciplinary Opportunities
  – As multi‑talented people in a multi‑disciplinary firm, we encourage everyone to follow their…