Capital Project Manager III

Capital Project Manager III

Salary: $ - $ Annually

Location:

Seattle, WA

Job Type: Career Service (Exec)

Job Number:

Department: DNRP-Natural Resources & Parks

Division:
Parks

FLSA:
Exempt

Bargaining Unit: C1 : PROTEC
17-DES, DLS, DNRP

Full- or Part-Time:
Full Time

Hours/Week: 40 hours/week

In addition to the current opening, this recruitment may be used to establish a pool of qualified candidates to fill future career service Capital Project Manager III openings within the Parks Division or throughout the Department of Natural Resources & Parks (DNRP) over the next six months.

King County Parks & Recreation is seeking capital project leaders who are ready to make a lasting impact. As our region grows, so does the need for parks and public spaces that are welcoming, sustainable, and accessible to everyone. That’s where you come in.

We’re hiring multiple Capital Project Manager III professionals to drive impactful park, trail, and facility improvements across the region. If you’re passionate about building sustainable, equitable public spaces and thrive on complex, community focused projects, this is your chance to make a lasting difference.

The Capital Project Manager III (CPM III) is the third level in the four-tier Capital Project Manager classification series and is responsible for delivering projects of varying complexity and risk from initial planning through closeout. In addition to core project management responsibilities, CPM IIIs may provide expert level guidance in specialized areas such as architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, planning, or construction management.

As a CPM III, you may independently manage projects and multidisciplinary teams, support large and complex capital efforts, serve as a technical specialist within a project team, and/or oversee capital programs and their associated budgets.

These positions offer exceptional opportunities to strengthen and expand your collaborative, technical, organizational, and customer service skills while contributing to meaningful capital improvements. We are seeking highly engaged, focused, and motivated self-starters with strong project management and communication abilities who want to help enhance the quality of life for King County residents and the beauty of our parks and trails.

Ideal candidates are strong problem solvers, results oriented, creative, and organized team players. If you’re looking for meaningful work where each day brings new challenges and rewards, this is an excellent opportunity to make a lasting impact.

This position follows a hybrid work model, blending remote and in‑person work.

The Capital Improvement Program (CIP) section provides strategic direction, oversight, and delivery of capital projects. It includes planning, designing, developing, and constructing Parks’ capital portfolio of projects and programs, performing comprehensive capital project management of major repair/renovation projects system wide, regional trail development, and other new capital improvements within the park and open space system while also collecting, managing, and stewarding the asset data within the County’s 32,000‑acre system of parks and trails.

The CIP Section consists of five units with different focus areas; however, projects of all types are routinely performed by each unit as necessary and these positions could potentially support any of these units.

• Capital Planning: Project Managers in this unit, typically but not exclusively, manage the planning phase of capital projects including developing comprehensive park management plans, conducting land use analysis for legal and physical site feasibility for new capital projects or site redevelopment, leading project environmental compliance including researching and evaluating environmental data to determine compliance with local, state, and federal regulations and issuing project SEPA determinations, reviewing complex technical documents to assess project impacts, providing expert level technical support for projects, providing policy and code analysis, managing the review and coordination of other agency projects proposed…