Interdisciplinary Project Manager

Project Manager

Serves as a Project Manager, working with interdisciplinary teams and providing professional engineering/architectural advice and guidance on the planning, designing, constructing, expansion, rehabilitation and/or re-purposing of existing and/or new structures, facilities, and utilities, roads, trails, and other physical assets.

Project Scoping, Data, and Asset Management:
Identifies need and develops justification for project, collects data, identifies project scope, conducts cost estimating and project entry into systems, databases, and other project management tools for prioritization, funding requests, and status updates, and acquires funding for project planning, supplemental services, support functions, and implementation, and remediation.

Project Formulation and Pre-Design:
Work includes revisiting needs and assumptions driving the project to verify that the proposed solution is appropriate and feasible, follows NPS design and construction protocol for the appropriate fund source, and works with regional and/or park staff to address requirements such as compliance, sustainability, and code requirements.

Schematic Design and Value Based Decision Making:
Assists with the development of schematic design alternatives, supports the park's initiation and completion of environmental compliance activities, develops a preferred alternative based on the outcomes of Value Analysis, and incorporates value-based decision-making methodology in project management and decision-making activities.

Design Development and Construction Documents:
Participates in the design process to meet project goals to include: technical review of detailed design drawings, review of construction specifications to current industry standards, prepares and reviews cost estimates and other technical documentation required to contract and award project.

Technical Resource/Expertise:
Provides technical reviews of plans within area of expertise and provides project information and status updates through various channels to include: verbal and written briefings/presentation, providing information for project websites, news releases, civic engagement opportunities, and interviews.

Contracting Support:
Works closely with the CO and/or the AE to assemble all documentation required (including scope of work) to contract and award the project, works with the CO to provide site visits and addressing questions from contractors, evaluation of proposals received, approval of contract modifications, and acquire, maintain, and perform COR duties as needed.