Program Manager

Stanley Consultants is an award-winning and industry-leading global consulting engineering firm, with an unmatched commitment to culture, values, and ethics. We are dedicated to client experience and solve the most complex challenges to create a sustainable, connected, and enriched world for all. As the world changes, Stanley strategically evolves with it, integrating the latest technology, innovation, and resiliency practices.

With over a century of experience serving the energy, federal government, transportation, and water sectors, we have helped improve lives and shape the infrastructure systems that connect us. As an employee-owned organization with a People First approach, we stand apart from other engineering consulting and services firms. At Stanley, your voice counts, your growth matters, and your success is our success.

Stanley Consultants offers flexible work options, competitive pay and great benefits, a strong sense of community, and the chance to build a meaningful, long-term career!

Job title
- Program Manager

Location
-San Antonio, TX

Job type
- Onsite

Requisition  - 11390

This position is contingent on contract award.

The Program Manager is a strategic leadership position responsible for building, growing, and institutionalizing Stanley Consultants' enterprise Program Management practice. This role serves as a bridge between executive leadership, market leaders, client service teams, and project delivery personnel to expand Stanley's services into higher-value advisory, program management, owner's representative, program management office (PMO), and capital improvement programs (CIP). As a practice builder you will steward existing programs and program staff, while leading the growth of this service area with existing and new clients across all sectors of our business.

The Program Manager will support and enhance major client programs across Stanley's Water, Transportation, Energy, Federal, and Infrastructure markets while developing the tools, talent, processes, and client relationships necessary to establish a scalable national program management practice.

This position requires a proven leader capable of operating at executive, client, and project levels simultaneously. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable advising C-suite executives, leading complex pursuits, improving delivery performance, developing strategic growth plans, and mentoring teams responsible for program execution.

• Develop and lead Stanley's enterprise Program Management practice across all markets and geographies.
• Establish strategic vision, service offerings, and operational standards for program management services.
• Develop repeatable tools, methodologies, governance frameworks, and best practices.
• Evaluate organizational capabilities and identify gaps in staffing, technical expertise, systems, and processes.

• Provide technical, schedule, financial, and risk-management oversight during the design and pre-construction phases.
  
  Responsibilities include:
• Translating validated mission requirements into detailed Owner's Project Requirements (OPR) and performance-based specifications.
• Establishing a project governance and decision-making framework that enables rapid, real-time Government approvals.
• Creating and maintaining an open-book risk register, risk allocation strategies, and contingency modeling.
• Performing continuous cost-estimating, independent cost analysis, and open-book cost reviews to establish a defensible, fair, and reasonable Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP).
• Managing collaborative design progression to balance strict budgets, tight schedules, and operational training requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Program Management, Business Administration, Public Administration, or a related field required.
• Master's degree preferred.

• Relevant professional certification such as PE, Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), Certified Construction Manager (CCM), Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), or equivalent advanced credential preferred.

• Minimum of 18 years of progressively responsible experience in program management, project management, infrastructure delivery, engineering consulting, construction management, or owner's advisory services.
• Minimum of 10 years of leadership experience managing…