Capital Programs Manager

Why join us?

• Impactful Work
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  Help shape city’s infrastructure investments and build the foundation for a thriving community.
• Professional Growth:Access to continuous learning opportunities and career advancement.
• Comprehensive Benefits:Health, dental, and vision insurance, FSA, retirement plans, and generous paid time off (vacation and sick).
• Collaborative Environment:Work with a dedicated and supportive team passionate about public service.
• Work-Life Balance:Hybrid work schedules and a commitment to your well‑being; 14 paid holidays plus a floating holiday.

Capital Programs Manager performs highly complex professional, technical, and managerial work overseeing the City’s Capital Projects Division and delivery of the Public Works Capital Improvement Program. Provides full-cycle leadership for municipal capital projects from initiation, feasibility, scoping, budgeting, and funding strategy through design, permitting, procurement, construction, closeout, final acceptance, and post-construction evaluation. Supervises and develops project engineers and inspection staff; establishes consistent project management systems, technical standards, quality controls, and performance measures;

and serves as a senior technical expert and second-level reviewer for complex design and construction matters. Applies critical and innovative thinking to improve delivery methods, keep specifications and practices current, meet program milestones, and reduce operational, financial, contractual, safety, and legal risk. The essential functions listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities.

Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility.

Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.

• Supervises, leads, and develops project engineers, inspectors, and related professional, technical, contract, temporary, and intern staff; assigns work, establishes expectations, monitors workload and quality, evaluates performance, addresses performance concerns, and provides ongoing coaching and technical consultation.
• Leads development, implementation, and monitoring of the Public Works Six-Year Capital Improvement Program (CIP), Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), annual work program, and capital project budgets in coordination with department leadership and other City departments.
• Establishes project charters, scopes, objectives, success criteria, delivery strategies, budgets, schedules, resource plans, stakeholder collaboration plans, and decision‑making frameworks before projects advance into design and construction.
• Plans, prioritizes, and assigns the capital project portfolio; establishes baseline schedules, critical milestones, dependencies, and performance measures; monitors progress and develops recovery strategies when scope, schedule, budget, funding, or quality is at risk.
• Proactively manages and guides staff on the City’s most complex or high‑risk capital projects through the complete project life cycle, including initiation, planning, alternatives analysis, design, permitting, right‑of‑way and utility coordination, procurement, construction, close‑out, final acceptance, warranty administration, and lessons learned.
• Directs design development, technical studies, environmental review, permitting, utility coordination, right‑of‑way needs, public involvement, and interagency review to maintain project readiness and timely decision‑making.
• Provides an independent, second‑level review at key project milestones, technical reports, plans, calculations, cost estimates, schedules, specifications, constructability, value‑engineering, bid documents, bid‑evaluation, award recommendations, change proposals, payment recommendations, and close‑out documentation; verifies that quality‑control comments are resolved before work advances.
• Ensures engineering specifications, standard details, design criteria, construction documents, and inspection requirements…