Highway Project Manager

Your role

• Coordinates and participates in contract negotiations with clients and subcontractors and drafts complex professional service agreements and addenda for review by senior management.
• Directs project team and client compliance with contract terms and monitors subcontractors' compliance with contractual commitments.
• Prepares project work plan, scope, schedule, and budget, and communicates these to project team members; monitors/manages project production for compliance with schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
• Monitors reports and schedules to ensure appropriate charging of manhours, costs, and expenses to projects, and to communicate project progress/status to senior management.
• Establishes and maintains project account files on the computerized project management information system, and periodically reviews project reports for accuracy and completeness.
• Monitors client billings, assists in obtaining payment from clients, and resolves client disputes, adjusting project billing records as required.
• Monitors subconsultants' progress and performance, reviews, and approves subconsultant and vendor invoices, and resolves payment and project disputes.
• Schedules and coordinates project meetings with the project team, regulatory agencies, the client, and others involved with the projects.
• Reports financial status of projects to technical managers.
• Identifies new business opportunities for the firm, coordinates and participates in project presentations to clients and other external groups, and promotes firm's capabilities, marketing its services among existing and prospective clients.
• Participates in project opportunity evaluation, consultant selection, and the preparation of firm's qualification/experience statements.
• May supervise technical professionals, associate project managers and design staff including workload and staffing management.
• Performs such other duties as the supervisor may from time to time deem necessary.