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GHD · 2 hours ago

Senior Project Manager-Highways Roads

Concord, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$121K/yr - $202K/yr

12+ years exp

GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. They are seeking a motivated Senior Project Manager - Highways Roads to support their Highways, Roads, Bridges practice throughout the California and Arizona. The role involves leading transportation projects, managing client relationships, and driving business development efforts.

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Responsibilities

Project Leadership & Delivery: Direct the planning, design, and execution of transportation projects, including highways, interchanges, local roads, roundabouts, trails, and bridges, ensuring delivery excellence, innovation, and client satisfaction

Business Development & Market Growth: Proactively identify, pursue, and secure new business opportunities with public and private sector clients. Lead the development of winning proposals, presentations, and interviews. Build and maintain a robust pipeline of work through strategic networking and market intelligence

Client Relationship Management: Serve as a trusted advisor to key clients, agencies, and stakeholders. Develop long term partnerships and ensure exceptional client service throughout the project lifecycle

Team Management & Development: Lead, mentor, and inspire multidisciplinary project teams. Fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. Support staff development through coaching, training, and succession planning

Financial and Risk Management: Oversee project budgets, schedules, and resource allocation. Drive project profitability and manage financial performance, including forecasting, earned value tracking, and variance analysis. Proactively identify and mitigate project risks

Technical Excellence & Quality Assurance: Provide senior technical oversight and ensure quality compliance with Caltrans, AASHTO, and local agency standards. Champion quality assurance and control throughout all project phases

Innovation & Best Practices: Lead the adoption of emerging technologies, digital delivery tools, and industry best practices to enhance project outcomes and client value

Change & Risk Management: Implement structured change management and risk mitigation strategies to ensure successful project outcomes

Strategic Leadership: Contribute to regional business planning, market analysis, and the development of long-term growth strategies for the transportation group

Project Governance: Clarify roles and responsibilities within the project team and ensure project compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes

Portfolio Management: Plan and manage the delivery of projects within an area of professional expertise, using an appropriate project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are achieved

Project Team Management: Lead large project teams (or multiple small- to medium-sized teams); define the project vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; coordinate team actions across project activities; coordinate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring

Project Risk and Issue Management: Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating these matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns

Project Resource Management: Negotiate and manage deployment of project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization

Leadership and Direction: Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals

Personal Capability Building: Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media

Transformational Change Management: Manage projects or substantial workstreams within a transformational change program, ensuring integration with related projects; use structured change management methodologies to build acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors

Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders, to develop positive stakeholder relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice

Project Scope Definition: Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables

Project Assurance: Manage the delivery of assurance reviews within a project, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified, to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality

Qualification

Transportation Project ManagementRegistered Civil EngineerCaltrans Standards KnowledgeBusiness DevelopmentProject Management SoftwareClient Relationship ManagementMulti-disciplinary Team ManagementRisk ManagementStakeholder ManagementCommunicationLeadership SkillsOrganizational Skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering or related field

12+ years of experience in transportation project management, with a strong background in planning, design and delivery of highway, roadway, and active transportation projects

Registered Civil Engineer in the State of California Required

Demonstrated success in business development, client management, and securing major project wins

Extensive experience managing projects for Caltrans, local agencies, and federally funded programs

Advanced proficiency with project management software and tools (e.g. MS Project, Earned-Value Management)

Deep knowledge of Caltrans and AASHTO standards, and expertise in PS&E package development

Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills