Senior Project Manager - Transportation Design

Overview

Join Parsons as a Senior Project Manager and Lead Transformative Transportation Projects in North Carolina! Parsons is seeking a seasoned project manager with a passion for delivering complex transportation projects. This role requires excellence in team leadership and a commitment to creating innovative solutions that enhance community infrastructure. As a Senior Project Manager, you will join our dynamic transportation design team in North Carolina, overseeing the development, management, and commercial performance of projects to ensure they meet ambitious goals and objectives.

Your expertise will be instrumental in planning and defining program goals, understanding client objectives, and navigating contract terms and corporate policies.

Parsons is committed to growth and innovation, as evidenced by our recent strategic acquisitions. These acquisitions have expanded our capabilities and market reach, allowing us to offer even more comprehensive solutions to our clients. Joining Parsons means being part of a forward-thinking company that is constantly evolving and expanding its horizons.

A full-service engineering and construction firm, we work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see new possibilities.

Parsons is committed to growth and innovation, as evidenced by our recent strategic acquisitions. These acquisitions have expanded our capabilities and market reach, allowing us to offer even more comprehensive solutions to our clients. Joining Parsons means being part of a forward-thinking company that is constantly evolving and expanding its horizons.

Location Flexibility:
We understand the importance of flexibility in today’s work environment. Candidates can be located in either Raleigh, North Carolina or Columbia, South Carolina.

• Communicating effectively, both orally and in writing, including preparing correspondence, written reports, and presentations for government entities, as well as briefing tenants and senior personnel.
• Scheduling and coordinating project interactions among existing and occupied facilities.
• Managing interdisciplinary teams of professionals and supporting labor categories.
• Integrating competing and/or conflicting elements into the planning and execution processes to ensure smooth project requirements flow.
• Working with Federal and Local Government office building projects, understanding procedural, review, and approval requirements.
• Mobilizing company resources by liaising with support departments, other offices, or subsidiaries to create project teams capable of completing effective, quality work.
• Discussing the qualifications required for key project positions in detail with profit center and department managers.
• Collaborating with office facilities staff to address project space requirements.
• Acting as the company representative with the client and selected subcontractors during program execution.
• Negotiating changes to the scope of work with the client and key subcontractors.
• Marketing and securing additional work with clients.
• Following up on instructions and commitments associated with the project.
• Participating in negotiations with regulatory agencies and in public meetings in support of clients.
• Overseeing the establishment of Project Execution Plan, Health and Safety Plan, Quality Assurance/Quality Control Plan, and other required documents.
• Establishing program requirements for all areas of the project and monitoring draft and final deliverables for adherence to these criteria.
• Developing and distributing a one to two-page description of the project to all members of the project team for reference.
• Working with other managers, project engineers, and discipline leads to develop budgets, schedules, and plans…