Senior Project Manager; Strategic Advisor

Join us in shaping Seattle’s streets!

At the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), we don’t just move people—we connect communities, build safer streets, and create a more sustainable city.

With a bold vision for the future, we’re tackling big challenges: making travel safer, cutting carbon emissions, and ensuring reliable, affordable transportation for everyone—no matter who they are or where they live.

Seattle is growing fast, and we’re growing with it. Thanks to a historic voter‑approved $1.55 billion investment in transportation in 2024, we’re building sidewalks, fixing bridges, and improving transit connections to keep our city moving.

We’re a team of problem solvers, planners, engineers, communicators, and field crews—bringing purpose‑driven work to life. Now, we need passionate, innovative talent like you. Let’s build a Seattle that works for everyone—together!

Are you looking for a way to make an impact on your community?

SDOT’s Capital Projects Division has a great opportunity for detail‑oriented and collaborative Senior Project Managers (Strategic Advisor
1) to work as part of the Capital Projects’ Project Management team managing some of SDOT’s more complex projects directly and support other project managers in delivering a variety of transportation capital projects including paving, transit, sidewalk, multimodal, bridge, and structural projects. This position will work with our team of dedicated transportation engineering and project delivery professionals to ensure that project elements are implemented and delivered successfully.

• Manage full life cycle of assigned portfolio, including scope, schedule, and budget for multiple concurrent and complex SDOT projects with budgets ranging from $10 M to over $100 M.
• Maintain Clarity PPM database to document project budgets, spending, risk elements, and project schedules.
• Provide grant reporting and monitors compliance of federally funded projects.
• Coordinate with other SDOT divisions, City agencies, and external stakeholders to proactively solve project issues.
• Regularly engage with and provide reports and presentations to leadership, elected officials, and community members.
• Prepare and help execute inter‑departmental and inter‑agency agreements leading to successful project delivery.
• Assist with the preparation, selection, and negotiation of consultant contracts.
• Support project teams of 100 people or more, including SDOT matrixed staff, inter‑departmental staff, consultants, and interagency partners.
• Support department goals in promoting diversity and social justice in keeping with the City’s Race and Social Justice Initiative.
• Provide implementation support and training for Capital Projects Division special projects, new technology, best practices, and/or new processes.
• Provide updates at monthly meetings with project controls staff on topics such as project risk management, cost estimating, project budgeting and schedules, quality control/quality assurance, and lessons learned.
• Serve as Primary Point of Contact on assigned Capital Projects, guiding a team of technicians, peers, superiors, and subject matter experts.

• Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Civil Engineering, Transportation Planning, Urban Planning or a related field.

• Four (4) or more years of progressive experience in capital project management, preferably with transportation civil project experience.
• Senior Project Management experience or similar experience demonstrated in program management, training, or similar; or combination of experience that shows project management capabilities, high level communication skills, and strong leadership skills.
• OR:
  An equivalent combination of education and experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the position duties.

Strong candidates will have some of the following experience or be able to describe comparable experience:

• Strong experience in transportation capital project delivery, planning, and/or project development.
• Knowledge of project management principles for transportation capital projects including risk management strategies.
• Project Management Professional certification preferred.
• Profe…