Senior Project Manager

Road and Tollway Authority, State - SRTA2 days agoJob Description:Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, and completion of moderately complex projects ensuring consistency with the strategies, initiatives, goals, timelines, and budgetary parameters of the State Road & Tollway Authority (SRTA). Acquires resources and coordinates the efforts of project team members in order to deliver projects according to schedule, scope, and budget. Resolves budgetary, technical, and scheduling issues as they arise and escalates issues of concern to management when appropriate. Maintains project status reports and project files. Understands, proposes updates to, and maintains SRTA’s PMO processes and procedures.Job Responsibilities & Performance Standards:Understands and ensures alignment with project goals and business needs.Secures, manages, and forecasts project budget; tracks expenditures against budget.Manages all project phases including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and close out.Manages and monitors project schedule, budget, and scope to ensure that projects remain in-scope and meet budgetary, scheduling, and quality requirements.Develops and reviews project management documentation and schedules.Tracks and monitors project tasks, action items, deliverables, risks, issues, goals, and milestones.Identifies resources for project/program implementation.Manages resource allocation proactively by ensuring that appropriate resources and tools are assigned to the tasks according to the project plan in order to execute the planned tasks successfully and on time.Coordinates the training, managing, and motivating of the project team, as well as resolving team conflicts.Manages, reports, and documents changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques.Monitors planning, development, implementation, construction, training and testing activities and reports on any issues, delays, changes, or concerns to management.Manages and coordinates with vendors and other project stakeholders as needed.Works with SRTA’s Legal department to process contracts, task orders, change orders, and amendments.Manages these contract documents to ensure adherence to legally binding requirements.Manages and maintains project collaboration sites, project files and documentation.Reviews and processes invoices and drawdowns for expenditures on projects in SRTA’s financial system (i.e., TeamWorks), following SRTA’s processes to ensure invoices are processed within a reasonable timeframe.Provides periodic project status reports to various parties, both internal and external.Facilitates internal and external project meetings and ensures detailed meeting notes are distributed to the appropriate team members.Maintains excellent communication among project stakeholders, management, and project team.Manages proactively project issues and risks. Creates risk and issue mitigation and contingency plans.Measures project performance using appropriate tools and techniques in order to monitor the progress of the project, identify and quantify any variances, perform any required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.Follows compliance and procurement processes.Maintains a flexible work schedule that may require working on evenings and weekends. It may require occasional statewide or out-of-state travel.Maintains a consistent, high quality, professional orientation when conducting business and providing services for the Authority and/or interacting with stakeholders.Maintains a high level of job skills by attending and completing various seminars and training courses as well as reading.Continues professional development in order to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices.Coaches and mentors more junior Project Managers.Performs other duties as assigned by Management.Qualifications:Completion of a four-year degree from an accredited college or university in a related field (e.g., engineering, technology, management, business administration, etc.) AND four (4) years of experience in a project management position.In addition:Experience managing software development and software implementation projects.Extensive understanding of PMI project management principles, methods, and techniques.Applicants must be well organized, detail oriented, committed to excel, and possess strong interpersonal acumen for interacting with a broad range of stakeholders, internally and externally.Driven, detail oriented, goal oriented, self-motivated, decisive, and flexible with proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines.Strong leadership, high emotional intelligence, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple divisions, offices, departments, and organizations.Excellent communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills.Strong experience presenting to executive sponsors and demonstrated communication skills; both with technical and non-technical staff, and all levels of management.Experience influencing and gaining buy-in from executives’ sponsors, team members, stakeholders, and peers.Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.Experience negotiating contracts.Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and forecasts, recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary.Tools: Proficient in Microsoft Office 365 Suite including MS Project, SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification or commitment to obtain in no more than six months from date of hire.Possess SRTA’s core values of Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation, Customer Focus, and Diversity.Preferred Qualifications:All other qualifications, plus:More than four (4) years of project management experience.Industry experience in the execution of tolling projects.Direct work experience in the tolling industry and customer service systems.Experience in governmental project management.Bachelor's degree in a related area from an accredited college or university OR Two years of related experience.Agency Logo:Requisition ID: ADM0H8NNumber of Openings: 1Advertised Salary: $90K to $95KShift: Day JobPosting End Date: Nov 30, 2024

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