What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Manager - Capital Projects position at Town of Leesburg (VA)?
Do you want to apply your expertise for a cause you can feel good about? Do you want to work for an organization that wants you to grow with it and offers tuition reimbursement, certification training, and a chance to learn about multiple industries? Come work for the Town of Leesburg, hometown of the 21st century! Located 35 miles west of the nation's capital in the heart of DC's Wine Country, you'll enjoy a vibrant and authentic community with "big city" amenities. The Town of Leesburg strongly encourages innovation, promotes career development, and offers excellent benefits to employees. Benefits include membership to the Town's full-service recreation center, enrollment into the Virginia Retirement System, excellent healthcare insurance, and other fringe benefits.
Who We're Looking For
If you identify with the following descriptions, then you may be perfect for the Town of Leesburg:
- Creative problem solver
- Proactive self-starter
- Life-long learner
- Strong team player
- Passionate about excellent customer service
- Positive, can-do attitude
- Effective communicator
- Desire to impart knowledge to others
- "Early adopter" of new technologies
What You'll Be Doing
This position performs senior-level professional engineering and management work in the Town’s Department of Capital Projects. This position is responsible for a variety of engineering, analytical, and research duties related to the Town’s Capital Project Program. The primary responsibilities of this position are to manage all technical and regulatory plan reviews to ensure completeness, accuracy, and constructability of all Capital Projects construction plans. This position will also be required to manage specific capital projects that may be assigned by the Director or Deputy Director – Engineering.
Work involves responsibility for the timely review of all Capital Project’s construction plans, plats, rezoning, and/or special exception applications, and VESMP permits for adherence to accepted engineering design and construction standards as well as all regulatory requirements. This position also requires close coordination with various Town departments, outside review agencies, architects, engineers, surveyors, land use attorneys, public officials, the general public, and contractors. This position exercises considerable judgement in identifying issues, developing solutions, coordinating technical reviews, and advancing projects toward approval and construction.
For more detailed job descriptions, please visit the Town's Job Descriptions page.- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, landscape architecture, land surveying, or a related field.
- Minimum of eight (8) years progressively responsible experience in civil engineering work; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Current Virginia Professional Engineering (PE) License.
- Valid Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Dual Combined Administrator’s Certification (Stormwater) or ability to acquire within one (1) year of employment
- Possession of a valid driver’s license and a safe driving record.
- Five (5) years of project management experience
- A current Certified Floodplain Management CFM designation
- Bilingual in English/Spanish
The Town offers competitive compensation, affordable health insurance coverage, participation in the Virginia Retirement System, an optional 457(b) retirement plan with a Town matching contribution, flexible spending accounts, voluntary benefits, employee assistance program (EAP), membership to the Town's full-service recreation center, an optional payroll Roth IRA, and generous paid time off. For more information on the Town's robust benefits package, please visit the Town's Employee Benefits page.
EOE/ADA
Salary : $90,636 - $201,244