Executive Director, Capital Project Delivery

Trimet • Portland, OR

277d • $221,024 - $331,537

About The Position

At TriMet, our mission is to connect people with mobility options that are safe, convenient, reliable, accessible, and welcoming for all. We are seeking a strategic, visionary, and operational leader for our Capital Project Delivery division within the newly established Strategy and Planning Office. As the Executive Director of Capital Project Delivery, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of public transit in the Portland-Metro Region. This role offers a unique opportunity to oversee the delivery of a growing number of state of good repair and major capital projects for highly complex, multi-modal transportation services, while developing capacity and processes that enable results. We're looking for a values-oriented, collaborative leader who will help lead the agency in focusing on critical state of good repair needs to restore and sustain our system while making necessary and innovative improvements and enhancements to existing systems and facilities. The successful candidate will direct, deliver, evaluate, and continuously improve the effectiveness of project development, design, engineering, and construction program management systems, processes, policies, standards, and practices.

Requirements

• A minimum of bachelor's degree is required.
• Twelve (12) years of total credited experience.
• Five (5) years of management are required.
• Twelve (12) years of experience in a senior management position with an emphasis on project management, transportation, transit or rail development are required.
• A Professional Engineering license is desirable.

Nice To Haves

• A bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, urban design, management, or a master's degree is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Successful planning and delivery of critical Agency projects, both new construction and state of good repair.
• Understanding and optimizing organizational structure and design to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness with the public's dollars.
• Comfort with navigating changing landscapes and ambiguity, coupled with the ability to make tough, impactful business decisions.
• Influencing and aligning various stakeholders, including internal teams, external partners, consultants, and governmental partners, to further the agency's priorities and objectives.
• Being a trusted and respected leader who supports and drives the success of your team, embodying and promoting agency values at all levels.
• Serve as a strategic leader, thought partner, and technical advisor to the CSPO and serve on the Strategy & Planning leadership team and the TriMet executive leadership team.
• Provide leadership to and management of the Capital Project Delivery team, with a focus on performance, delivery and collaboration across the agency.
• Work alongside capital planning and asset management functions to be a leader and champion of asset management for the agency.
• Provide strategic and engineering oversight to the simultaneous project development, design, permitting and construction of a large and diverse portfolio of both small capital and major capital construction projects.
• Develop, plan, set priorities, budgets, and schedules in major functional areas.
• Control, monitor, and approve budgets and operational forecasts for the division.
• Define project objectives, including performance, cost, and schedule.
• Direct the activities and operations of the Capital/Grant Compliance Control.
• Plan, organize, implement, and monitor all aspects of established safety and security policies.
• Maintain solid working relationships and interact with various government agencies responsible for planning and funding/financing capital transit projects.
• Build networks and relationships within other transit and transportation organizations/agencies.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefit package.
• Supportive and collaborative leadership.
• Opportunities to learn, grow and thrive.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree