Senior Project Manager

Cambridge Systematics • Medford, MA

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About The Position

Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (CS) is shaping the future of transportation. We are industry leaders, transportation specialists dedicated to ensuring that transportation investments can deliver the best possible results. By providing innovative policy and planning solutions, objective analyses and technology applications, we help our clients anticipate and meet future transportation needs while improving the performance of existing infrastructure and operations. Above all, we are committed to our clients’ success in making transportation better for future generations.

The Planning group provides fully integrated planning and management as well as project development services for our clients. We apply our national knowledge and leadership while leveraging the strength of regional expertise to bring experience from across the country to provide an intimate understanding of our clients’ needs.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our team in Medford. The Senior Project Manager is both a subject matter expert in a set of practice areas and contributes meaningfully to our clients’ strategic business decisions. As a subject matter expert, the Senior Project Manager collaborates with other technical leaders and project managers across business units. They both serve as a company-wide resource and lead projects or tasks in practice areas including safety; corridor planning; long-range planning; asset, performance, and risk management; and resilience and sustainability. Their expertise will inform research and influence clients’ policy, process, and strategy, including investment decisions.

The Senior Project Manager in New England develops collaborative relationships with current and prospective public agency clients across New England, including the Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, and Connecticut Departments of Transportation; Metropolitan Planning Organizations, municipalities, and other public entities such as tolling agencies or port authorities. Using those relationships, they identify future policy and programming opportunities. They also build connections with our peer firms and lead teaming negotiations with other consulting firms as part of proactive and reactive marketing efforts.

The Senior Project Manager trains, manages, and mentors junior staff and motivates multidisciplinary teams and subconsultants to deliver work products on-time and within budget.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Planning, Civil Engineering, Public Policy, Transportation Economics or a related area
• 8+ years of industry-related experience
• 4+ years of experience managing projects and leading proposals
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Strong and effective communication, presentation, and technical writing skills
• A strong professional network in the transportation industry

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Planning, Civil Engineering, Public Policy, Transportation Economics or a related area
• Demonstrated project experience—current or prior—with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, New Hampshire Department of Transportation, Maine Department of Transportation, Rhode Island Department of Transportation, Vermont Department of Transportation, and/or Connecticut Department of Transportation, including direct engagement in policy, planning, programming, or statewide transportation initiatives
• Located in (or willing to relocate to) Greater Boston area
• 5+ years of experience in public sector consulting and professional services

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with other technical leaders and project managers across business units
• Serve as a company-wide resource and lead projects or tasks in practice areas including safety; corridor planning; long-range planning; asset, performance, and risk management; and resilience and sustainability
• Inform research and influence clients’ policy, process, and strategy, including investment decisions
• Develops collaborative relationships with current and prospective public agency clients across New England
• Identify future policy and programming opportunities
• Build connections with our peer firms and lead teaming negotiations with other consulting firms as part of proactive and reactive marketing efforts
• Trains, manages, and mentors junior staff and motivates multidisciplinary teams and subconsultants to deliver work products on-time and within budget.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees