Project Manager - Transportation

MSA Professional Services, Inc. • Duluth, MN

32d

About The Position

MSA has an opportunity for a Project Manager - Transportation in our Duluth, MN office. You will have the opportunity to see, and contribute in, projects from start to finish. The various projects you'll be working on make a significant and positive impact on the communities you serve.
WHO WE ARE
What does it mean to serve communities for over 100 years? It means doing the type of work that helps people raise a family, grow a business, engage with their neighbors, and enjoy a variety of unique, enduring spaces that form the fabric of “home.”
MSA’s roots reach back to 1919. What began with an entrepreneurial solo practitioner in Baraboo, Wisconsin, has grown into a robust and thriving company of over 400 employee-owners working across the country. As a 100% employee-owned firm, we mean it when we say we “own” our work. We stand behind the quality of our designs, the integrity of our people, and the generations of client relationships we’ve formed based on trust, firm handshakes, and the belief that together — we can accomplish anything.

Requirements

• Experience and understanding of Department of Transportation design principles and submittal processes.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, construction management, engineering, or related degree preferred.
• Six years of related experience or five years with an advanced related degree for PE individual
• In-depth knowledge of the philosophies, principals, practices, and techniques of their discipline as well as project management
• Ability to work in a team environment while organizing and prioritizing changing workload
• Ability to negotiate persuasively to produce positive outcomes, instill trust and confidence from others, and demonstrate high personal and professional standards in performance
• Proven initiative in the development and completion of projects
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage projects
• Demonstrated ability to manage program investments, expenses, and receivables, and other costs over a sustained period
• Strong organizational skills to work independently and manage projects with many moving parts and successfully meet deadlines
• Desire and ability to mentor less experienced staff
• The selected candidate must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future. We are unable to provide or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.

Nice To Haves

• Professional Engineer license in Minnesota is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for assembling internal and external resources necessary to complete a project with a high degree of complexity often involving more than one team and more than one service line.
• Serves as primary point of contact for project team for workshare coordination
• Leads a project team to deliver technical projects through the following phases:
• Pursuit: Performs marketing and business development in partnership with Team Leader, Client Liaisons, and Client Service Managers.
• Initiation: Evaluates opportunities, current workload, client risks, potential profit, competition, etc. and makes an informed decision/recommendation to pursue or not pursue.
• Planning: Create a sound and accurate scope of services through developed understanding of the project and communication with client. Review and prepare proposals and follow up with client. Create Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and budget/fee estimates.
• Execution: Prepare effective and documented communications with client, project team, and other key stakeholders. Stamps and or certifies deliverable documents as appropriate
• Close-out: Ensure delivery on all commitments, conduct quality reviews, and utilize a process or checklist to close out the project.

Benefits

• Quality Insurance Options – Medical, dental and vision coverage for you, your spouse or domestic partner and eligible dependents
• Paid Time Off – All full-time employees will receive, at minimum, 17 days of paid time off in the first year alone.
• Paid Holidays – MSA offers time off pay for 8 holidays in every calendar year.
• Paid Parental Leave – Both parents will receive 2 weeks of paid time off and birth parents are eligible for additional paid time off under MSA’s Short Term Paid Leave. The paid 2 weeks of time also applies to adoption and foster care placement.
• Supplemental Insurance – MSA pays 100% for all employees to have life insurance, long-term disability insurance and short-term disability insurance.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – MSA is an ESOP S-Corporation, which means that our company is 100% owned by us! Through the ESOP, eligible employees receive MSA stock in the form of company shares as a percentage of compensation, at no cost to the employee.
• 401k Retirement Savings Plan – Employees can also choose to participate in a 401k plan, with a generous employer match that is immediately 100% vested.
• Short Term Incentive (STIP) – This program rewards employees who meet performance goals with a one-time annual STIP payment as a percentage of their eligible compensation — recognition of individual accomplishments and achieving organizational goals. STIP payments are awarded if MSA reaches its corporate financial plan for the year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees