Capital Improvement Program Director

About the role

The position involves managing complex capital improvement projects from initiation to completion, coordinating with various stakeholders, and ensuring projects adhere to timelines and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Formalizes and manages the City of Beaufort Capital Improvements Program (CIP).
• Leads project lifecycles from initiation through completion, including large-scale construction projects requiring coordination with other jurisdictions.
• Provides updates on the CIP program to senior management and City Council.
• Engages with the public to gather feedback and convey information about capital projects.
• Manages, develops, oversees, and evaluates projects using project management methodologies.
• Coordinates interdepartmental cooperation and manages project budgets, schedules, and resources.
• Communicates project methodology and processes to interested groups and team members.
• Plans and manages efficient meetings and compiles project information and status reports.
• Affords guidance and assigns duties to project staff as necessary.

Requirements

• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in managing complex scope projects from initiation to completion.
• Infrastructure construction project management experience is preferred.
• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in a field relevant to the assignment is generally preferred.
• Experience and education may be substituted for one another.
• Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred.
• Engineering experience, including certification as a Professional Engineer (PE), is preferred.
• Contracting experience as a licensed General Contractor (GC) is preferred.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive knowledge of stakeholders, infrastructure management, utility service coordination, and procedures for submitting data elements, reports, and updates to grant agencies.
• Ability to assess, review, analyze, and resolve difficult and complex issues.
• Working knowledge of interagency processes from the Federal to Local levels, particularly when dealing with federal, state, or local regulatory issues.

Skills

• Knowledge of project management theories and practices applicable to complex projects.
• Systems and procedures used to evaluate a third-party vendor’s performance.
• Local, state, and federal laws and regulations relevant to the administration of the project.
• Project management monitoring, addressing changes in scope or timing, and use of a computer and applicable software.
• Managing project activities, establishing project goals and objectives, exercising sound judgment, analyzing complex information, demonstrating negotiation and facilitation skills, identifying project risks and gaps, preparing reports, and communicating effectively.
• Ability to speak and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information.
• Ability to read and comprehend policy and procedure manuals, technical bulletins, reports, plans, dictionaries, schedules, directories, financial documents, budgets, etc.
• Ability to apply rational systems to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to make independent judgments in the absence of supervisor.
• Ability to comprehend and interpret received information and the ability to comprehend and implement basic office machinery functions.
• Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.
• Adaptable to performing under minimal levels of stress when confronted with an emergency or tight deadline.
• Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
• Exposure to many environmental conditions; work is generally in a moderately noisy location.

Benefits

The City of Beaufort offers a wide range of benefits to full-time employees and their families, including health care, dental, vision, PEBA retirement, deferred compensation plans, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, long-term and short-term disability, holidays, vacation, and sick leave.

Pay

Compensation is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Regular full-time hours are required.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The City of Beaufort is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. The City of Beaufort will provide reasonable accommodation for otherwise qualified individuals. The City of Beaufort does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender or sex, race, color, religion, national origin, veterans status or genetic information.