Project Manager - Horizontal

Position Description

Position Overview:

The position will manage multiple capital improvement projects, ensuring they are constructed in accordance with the engineer of record's sealed plans and Harris County specifications. The position is supervised by a Senior Project Manager or Capital Infrastructure Projects (CIP) Manager and will work with Harris County, contractors, consulting firms, labs, coordinating agencies, and outside organizations to identify and resolve issues on the job site.

Project Managers are successfully delivering Harris County's capital portfolio, comprising numerous projects valued at approximately $100M per team member across a wide spectrum of public infrastructure.

This position ensures project goals and objectives are achieved by allocating resources, developing solutions, identifying and mitigating risks, and fostering team cohesion. This includes maintaining a solid working knowledge of the Project Manager's portfolio to respond rapidly to client or management inquiries, identify systemic challenges, and initiate solutions. The position may supervise Assistant Project Manager and/or Graduate Engineers. The CIP Division focuses on projects ranging from the design and construction of roads, drainage, bridges, parks, facilities, trails, and bicycle paths.

The division oversees multiple teams of engineers, landscape architects, engineers-in-training, computer-aided designers, project managers, construction managers, inspectors, constructability technicians, and consultants working on projects across all fields.

Job

Duties & Responsibilities:

* Deliver projects from pre-planning through close-out.

* Develop and negotiate scopes of work, resources, schedules, and cost estimates for projects with Clients, Consultants, and the Project Team.

* Facilitate and negotiate the consultant procurement, along with managing internal and external resources to develop the project delivery team.

* Coordinate efforts with the project delivery team to prepare the final deliverables in the form of engineer reports and/or constructible plan set.

* Ensures deliverables meet the client's preference, the Engineer Department's standards, regulatory compliance, and permitting requirements.

* Evaluate and perform risk management to achieve project scope, schedule, and budget expectations.

* Coordinates and communicates effectively with management, Harris County elected officials and representatives, external agencies, and the public as necessary.

* Assist with emergencies and recovery efforts following local disasters to ensure Harris County has safe infrastructure following the event.

* Assists in leading a team in achieving program goals and objectives through mentoring, resource management, facilitating project solutions, and promoting team cohesion by encouraging a positive, working team atmosphere.

* Oversee consultant procurement and manage internal and external resources to adequately staff the project delivery team, including contract negotiation and managing the project budget.

* Promote project controls, tracking, and enhanced reporting using Project Management Software (i.e., eBuilder), which includes advancing projects from planning to design, to construction, to occupancy. Utilize the software to manage project scopes, costs, schedules, and documents.

* Assist and coordinate with clients and the Capital Infrastructure Projects - Inspections & Quality Assurance staff with all phases of project delivery, as needed, from negotiation and initiation through the warranty phase and close out.

* Maintain responsibility, oversight, and knowledge of the entire portfolio of projects assigned to the Project Management Team; meet regularly with department management and senior client representatives to discuss the Program.

* Identify and address risks to schedule, budget, or performance with subordinate project managers and engage management as necessary to resolve issues and mitigate risks before impacting project delivery.

* Assist in managing and supervising Assistant Project Managers, Graduate Engineers, consultants, and other related subject matter experts in the preparation of planning and construction documents, and complete ancillary support tasks to successfully bid and award capital roadway projects.

* Ensure that quality assurance, risk management, regulatory compliance, and permitting are properly executed, utilizing the Project Management Institute (PMI) business model, and work closely with Division leadership to track and report project status.

* Coordinate with inspectors, design engineers, consultants, and contractors to resolve issues found during construction. Maintains a project presence in e-Builder.

* Coordinate with the Office of the County Engineer (OCE) personnel to conduct pre-construction field walks, review plans, resolve design issues, utility conflicts, and other issues as required.

* Review and recommend approval of change orders for condition changes, quality changes, reasonable costs, and…