Highway Principal Project Manager - Casual Status

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Job Description:

Our Parsons Chicago office has a career opportunity for an experienced Highway Principal Project Manager to join our transportation team! In this role you will manage and oversee IDOT, Tollway and various transportation projects in the greater Chicagoland area in addition to projects across the Midwest Region.  

Join our expanding Chicago transportation team to lead and support the planning and design, for highway capital improvements.  The successful candidate must have a strong background in highway planning and design of major urban and rural interchanges, highway and arterial widening and major river crossings.  Parsons’ extensive experience in this field, combined with your management and technical guidance, will propel your career forward with opportunity for advancement with top performance.  We need our Project Managers to be versatile as well as have exceptional communication and analytical skills.   In this role you will provide management and direction for one or more infrastructure improvements at any given time. Must be a team player to fit within an experienced group of professionals.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as Project Manager/Director for large scale engineering projects and directs the overall project development activities and client coordination for those projects.
• Develops scope, design budget estimates, schedules and staffing requirements for the major projects and assists other PM’s in the development of similar activities for various other projects.
• Monitors progress and reports to senior management on financial and schedule issues that may arise.
• Oversees the assignment of staff to maximize efficiency, maintain schedules, and to meet budget goals. Keeps alert to possible problem areas and takes preventative action to ensure that critical milestones are met for each phase of the project. Works with other PMs to balance workload across multiple disciplines.
• Ensures the use of sound engineering practices to attain required quality control at the maximum efficiency and minimum cost.
• Prepares periodic reports summarizing progress of project development activities for management
• Ensures effective implementation of all Client policies and procedures.
• Maintains strong working relationships with various transportation clients and project stakeholders to advance project progress.
• Desire to lead Client management teams

Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (or related field); Masters Degree preferred
• 20+ years of related work experience
• Demonstrated experience serving in a role of project management on major road and highway project with IDOT and/or IDOT; City, County, regional and national projects a plus.
• Professional Illinois Engineer registration; Iowa and Wisconsin a plus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Thorough knowledge of industry practices and regulations is required
• Must also possess a thorough knowledge of current technology and the capabilities and efficiencies of specific engineering software for use in completing engineering assignments

Security Clearance Requirement:

None

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!

Salary Range: $71.30 - $128.32

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 30 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

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