Civil Senior Project Manager

Job Description

The Senior Project Manager makes decisions and recommendations that are recognized as authoritative and have an important impact on extensive engineering activities. Maintains extensive contacts with key engineers and principals of other organizations. Individual has demonstrated creativity, foresight, and mature engineering judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented engineering problems, determining objectives and organizing projects, and developing standards and guides for engineering activities. Supervision received by Senior Project Manager is essentially administrative with assignments given in broad general objectives and limits.

Example Responsibilities And Activities

• May serve as Senior Project Manager or Engineering Discipline Manager for the firm.
• As a Senior Project Manager plans, develops, coordinates, and directs a number of various sized and important projects or a project of major scope and importance. May supervise other Project Managers.
• In their role of an Engineering Discipline Manager, is responsible for the area of expertise in terms of operations, marketing, and directing the completion of all project work within that discipline. The individual is a recognized leader and authority and is consulted extensively by fellow staff and others with a high degree of reliance placed on his interpretations and advice.
• Promote JVA’s Quality Assurance/Quality Control culture. Will be responsible for following the policy and procedures of the QA/QC policy manual.
• Responsible for Quality Control reviews and conducts constructability reviews or assists in the design/planning/review of other engineering projects.
• Will be responsible for managing clients and performing marketing activities. These efforts will be coordinated with the marketing staff and Principals.
• May supervise engineering and support personnel: assigns and schedules work; establishes project priorities and standards.
• Evaluates staff performance and makes recommendations for changes to achieve overall individual objectives.
  
  

Salary Range: $135,000 - $170,000

Closing Date: Open until filled

Job Requirements

REQUIRED Qualifications

• Leadership: Show a strong work ethic, dedication, and professionalism in your own work. Be punctual, organized, and demonstrate a positive attitude to motivate your team. Approach challenges with a proactive mindset, analyzing situations, and making informed decisions in a timely manner.
• Supervision: Skillfully manage the project while also fostering a positive and productive work environment where team members feel supported, motivated, and empowered to achieve project success. Delegate tasks based on team members’ strengths, skills, and workload.
• Coordination: Focus on details and big picture tasks while staying organized by maintaining up-to-date schedules, documentation, and records. Ability to be open to change and ready to adapt to evolving circumstances.
• Communication: Express ideas and information clearly and concisely both written and verbally and practice active listening. Clearly define and communicate the roles, responsibilities, and expectations of each team member.
• Initiative: Take proactive steps to drive projects and processes forward, identify opportunities for improvement, and follow through with commitments.
  
  

PREFERRED Qualifications

• Software Utilization: Demonstrated expertise with overseeing construction drawing preparation with Bluebeam and MS Office software packages.
  
  

REQUIRED Credentials

• Degree and Credential Requirements: We value candidates who can demonstrate capability and articulate how prior experiences will help them contribute.
• P.E. License: Have the required combination years of education and engineering experience and has an active P.E. License in the state of Colorado within one year of hire.