Chief, Project Management

Roles and Responsibilities

• Leads the Project Management group for a major capital program in delivering capital projects within approved scope, budget, and schedule.
• Maintains and updates a project control system to provide relevant and timely status reports of project budgets, expenditures, and schedules to executive-level staff and prepares the framework for reports to funding agencies.
• Works with Capital Planning group to review and approve budgets, scopes, and delivery schedules for proposed projects and grant opportunities.
• Works with Procurement department to generate contract documents for retaining consultant support services for project development.
• Works with other groups to review consultant-developed or in-house developed delivery documents.
• Works with Business Lines (surface transit and rail operations) to coordinate outages and staging in and around capital projects.
• Works with Capital Construction Management group to deliver construction projects from initial advertisement of contracts through project closeouts.
• Works with Government/Community Relations group to seamlessly liaise between NJ TRANSIT and outside agencies including federal, state, local municipalities, public concerns, utilities, other railroads and any other group that interfaces with NJ TRANSIT on capital project delivery.
• Directs the development and implementation of capital projects, new construction, and rehabilitation and improvement projects in the NJ TRANSIT Capital Program through problem solving, coordination, and information exchange within NJ TRANSIT.
• Develops and implements best practices and corporate strategic initiatives.
• Ensures the continued development and use of in-house capital project delivery handbook known as CP4.
• In coordination with Human Resources and others, provides leadership in staff development, retention, and recruitment to improve the technical capacity of the Project Management division.

Education, Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university and ten (10) years of applied progressively responsible experience in the application of engineering management principles to the transportation field, field construction and construction management.
• Knowledge of design services contract law, Critical path Method (CPM) scheduling, budgeting and project control systems is required. Professional Engineer License in New Jersey desired.
• One year of closely related experience can be substituted for each year of education required.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of engineering design for heavy civil works, general understanding contract law, Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling, budgeting and project control systems is required.
• Fluency in Microsoft Office including Project and Primavera P6 is required.
• Excellent communication skills a must.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Professional Engineer License
• Project Management Professional certification

Working Environment

This Position Supervises: Senior Directors, Senior Program Managers

At NJ Transit you will enjoy a competitive salary and excellent benefit package:

• Comprehensive Family Health Insurance – Prescription, Dental, Vision
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Paid Leave
• 401(a), 401(k) Retirement Plans - up to 9% employer contribution
• Tuition Assistance
• Qualified Transportation Expense Plan (QTE)

Please be advised that this position is subject to the requirements of Executive Order No. 2 (Murphy, Jan. 17, 2018). If you are selected for this position and accept the offer of employment, you will be required to file a Financial Disclosure Statement (“FDS”) annually and your FDS will be posted online. Additional information is available online at https://www.nj.gov/ethics/disclosure/financial/.

NJ TRANSIT is an Equal Opportunity Employer