Capital Projects & Infrastructure Management Consultant; Transportation

Position: Capital Projects & Infrastructure Management Consultant (Transportation)
Job Family:

Capital Projects & Infrastructure Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 25%

Clearance Required:

None

What You Will Do:

Guidehouse’s Capital Projects & Infrastructure team is seeking professionals with backgrounds in engineering, construction, project delivery, and related fields who are looking to apply their technical expertise to address complex challenges that enable infrastructure strategy and execution, with a focus on transportation and transit capital programs (e.g., rail, BRT/LRT, facilities/stations, guideway, roadway, bridge, or other transportation infrastructure). A strong candidate should demonstrate knowledge of the capital project lifecycle (planning through maintenance and operations) and have a proven record of success in an individual contributor role.

We are looking for a candidate who is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to speak on behalf of the team in a client-facing role.

Demonstrates proven thorough knowledge of the capital project lifecycle (planning through maintenance and operations), and a proven record of success in an individual contributor role for active capital projects. Specifically, this individual has a proven successful record of having supported or led one or more of the following areas:

Project governance, e.g., organizational and process aspects (including boards/committees, interagency coordination, and third-party stakeholders common to DOT/transit programs)
Risk management and analysis, e.g., risk register, quantitative (probabilistic) risk modeling, root cause analysis, issue management, prudency reviews (including service impacts, permitting/ROW/utility risks, and systems integration risks)
Construction project management and controls, e.g., schedule control, cost control (budget, accruals, forecasts), earned value, change management (including work windows, safety in operating environments, and complex interfaces)
Complex schedule analytics, e.g., critical path method (CPM), float, schedule compression/time-cost trade-off, change impacts (including staged construction and outage planning)
Contract development and management, e.g., procurement processes, administration, scope control

Performance metrics and project reporting (including dashboards aligned to capital delivery and operational readiness)
Project technology, e.g., project and portfolio management, applications to quantify cause and effect of delays (including PMIS/document controls/scheduling toolsets typical in transit/transportation capital programs)
Develop road mapping and strategic plans to be used by key business leaders to make informed investment decisions

What You Will Need:

Must be a US Citizen or US Permanent Resident due to nature of client engagements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university

Five (5+) plus years post-graduation work experience

Experience directly leading client relationships and/or project teams

Experience with federal, state, and local procurement regulations and requirements, including public-sector procurement practices common to DOT/transit agencies

Engineering or technical expertise in project controls, project management technology, capital infrastructure, preferably within transportation/transit capital programs

Experience drafting documents, memos, letters, and other formal communications to clients, including board-ready or stakeholder-facing materials

Ability to travel

Ability to work in a Guidehouse Office or Client Office location

What Would Be Nice to Have:

Preference will be given to candidates residing within 50 miles of a Guidehouse Office listed in posting

Master’s Degree (MBA, MPP, MPA, etc.)Project Management Professional (PMP), AICP, EIT, or PE Experience with Federal grant funding environments, including…