Project Manager & Market Lead- Construction
About The Position
The Project Manager/Market Lead- Construction will work across Transportation, Water, Buildings, and Construction Phase Services leadership to establish and execute a focused growth plan. The role cultivates 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 a 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, multidisciplinary experience, and the ability to balance market development with hands-on delivery leadership. The role operates under a hybrid work model, with three days a week in the office. Responsibilities span business planning and market development, winning work and client development, project and contract delivery, operations and commercial management, and people leadership and collaboration.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Approximately 15 or more years of progressively responsible public infrastructure experience, including substantial construction management, program management, project management, and business development leadership.
- Demonstrated success developing client relationships and securing professional services contracts with public agencies.
- 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
- Develop and maintain an annual business plan for construction management and program management services across priority public infrastructure markets.
- Define priority clients, target sectors, pursuits, pipeline objectives, visibility activities, relationship plans, and measurable business development indicators.
- Monitor agency capital programs, procurement activity, funding priorities, market trends, and competitor and teaming dynamics across transportation, facilities, water, utilities, and related markets.
- Plan for staffing, recruiting, training, geographic coverage, and technical capabilities needed to support growth; adjust sector emphasis based on client demand, delivery talent, strategic fit, and opportunity potential.
- Build and sustain executive-level and working relationships with transit and transportation agencies, airports, municipalities, utilities, educational institutions, and other public owners.
- Develop a network of consulting firms, contractors, specialty partners, and small businesses to assemble pursuit and delivery teams.
- Lead capture planning for priority pursuits, including client positioning, partner strategy, win themes, staffing, scope, pricing input, and interview preparation.
- Guide responses to requests for qualifications and proposals, using opportunity tracking and reusable marketing content.
- Represent GHD through industry associations, conferences, civic engagement, and other market-facing activities.
- Coordinate across GHD to offer integrated construction management, program management, engineering, environmental, architecture, utilities, permitting, risk, asset management, and advisory solutions.
- Serve in senior project leadership, program management, construction management, resident engineering, project management, or client advisory roles as assignments require.
- Oversee contract administration, schedule, cost, change management, quality, safety coordination, submittals, requests for information, progress payments, closeout, commissioning, and turnover.
- Coordinate among owners, designers, contractors, operators, maintainers, utilities, permitting agencies, facility users, and other stakeholders.
- Apply experience across civil and structural work, transportation systems, stations, maintenance facilities, airports, municipal buildings, water and wastewater systems, utilities, mechanical and electrical systems, telecommunications, and roadway interfaces.
- Promote consistent project management practices, contract compliance, quality management, risk identification, documentation, and timely decision-making.
- Identify follow-on assignments and amendments by understanding client needs and maintaining strong delivery performance.
- Support operational planning, project financial performance, forecasting, workload management, and resource allocation across participating practices.
- Coordinate with business group, operations, and finance leaders to monitor performance measures and address variances.
- Review scopes, budgets, staffing plans, delivery approaches, and commercial terms within applicable governance and delegated authority.
- Identify and mitigate delivery, contractual, commercial, staffing, safety, quality, and client risks.
- Balance market development responsibilities with targeted billable project and program leadership, and promote work sharing across sectors, offices, and geographies.
- Recruit, retain, lead, and mentor construction management, program management, project management, and inspection professionals, including staff embedded in client offices and project sites.
- Create an inclusive, accountable, and collaborative team culture focused on safety, integrity, respect, teamwork, and client service.
- Coach staff in client engagement, contract administration, construction management, proposal development, multidisciplinary coordination, and career growth.
- Build succession and leadership depth; support work sharing across offices, business groups, and global technical networks.
- Participate in regional leadership and service-line forums and contribute to broader infrastructure growth initiatives.
- Travel as needed to client, project, and industry locations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
