Project Manager- Construction
About The Position
The Project Manager- Construction will work across Transportation, Water, Buildings, and Construction Phase Services leadership to establish and execute a focused growth plan for Northern California. The role cultivates trusted relationships with public agencies, teaming partners, contractors, and industry organizations; identifies and captures priority opportunities; and provides senior oversight for construction management, program management, project management, resident engineering, and owner-advisory assignments. The position is practice-flexible, connecting client needs with GHD capabilities across infrastructure sectors while strengthening the regional team through recruiting, mentoring, resource planning, and collaboration across business groups and geographies. The successful candidate brings an owner-focused perspective, practical construction judgment, broad multidisciplinary experience, and the ability to shift between market development and hands-on delivery leadership. The role follows a hybrid work model, with three days per week in the office. Travel to client, project, and industry locations may be required as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Approximately 15 or more years of progressively responsible experience in public infrastructure, including substantial construction management, program management, project management, and business development leadership.
- Experience leading construction management assignments and multidisciplinary capital projects in more than one infrastructure market.
- Broad understanding of the Northern California public infrastructure market, including clients, partners, contractors, and competitors.
- Experience coordinating civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, utilities, telecommunications, and operational interfaces.
- Ability to travel as needed to client, project, and industry locations.
Responsibilities
- Establish and execute a focused growth plan for Northern California across relevant infrastructure practices.
- Cultivate relationships with public agencies, teaming partners, contractors, and industry organizations; identify and pursue priority opportunities.
- Provide senior oversight for construction management, program management, project management, resident engineering, and owner-advisory assignments.
- Strengthen the regional team through recruiting, mentoring, resource planning, and collaboration across business groups and geographies.
- Manage important client relationships or oversee relationship management for a group of transactional clients and customers.
- Review operations in a major area of work and implement innovations to achieve continuous improvement.
- Edit documents to organizational style guidelines and prepare information for publication.
- Develop professional capabilities through assessment, development planning, training, coaching, continuing education, and relevant professional accreditation.
- Manage project assurance reviews, enable independent reviews, and address identified issues to support delivery to time, budget, and quality expectations.
- Prepare documentation and training for project closeout and handover; identify and record lessons learned.
- Oversee and approve project plans, ensuring activities are organized to meet objectives and comply with governance and management frameworks.
- Manage project reviews and provide stakeholders with accurate information and recommendations to evaluate progress and agree on changes.
- Negotiate and manage project resource budgets, provide forecasts, and explain variances.
- Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints; escalate concerns and develop and implement solutions as needed.
- Lead information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation to define, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables.
- Lead small- to medium-sized project teams, communicate the project vision and outcomes, coordinate team activities and staffing, and build team capability through training, coaching, and mentoring.
- Coordinate requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, management, and verification of project deliverables.
- Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans and maintain positive stakeholder relationships with appropriate stakeholder participation.
- Develop medium- or long-term work schedules and coordinate across multiple teams.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
