Design Build Project Manager
Missions/Main Duties
- Provide technical leadership and facilitate multi-discipline design-build team collaboration.
- Familiarity with Transit and Rail disciplines such as signal, structures, traction power, track, rail grade crossings, Overhead Catenary Systems, and System Safety and Integration.
- Manage schedule delivery for Final Design Documents.
- Contract Management including change order development and negotiation.
- Conduct monthly Project Reviews including cost reporting, and budget control activities throughout the life of the project with Project Controller and Department Manager.
- Monthly Budget Control including invoicing for construction support activities and design activities.
- Track financial aspects of projects, coordinate and adjust work effort with team to ensure that work is completed within parameters of agreed-to schedule.
- Point of client interface and accountability. Attend weekly meetings via Teams or at the field office. Field visits may be needed depending on project needs. Ability to obtain Roadway Worker Protection certification for several NYC Agencies.
- Risk management by defining and negotiating out-of-scope requests.
- Quality Control and Quality Assurance for over 50 deliverables packages, which include design drawings, specifications, design exceptions requests, reports, calculations.
- Managing Construction activities such as RFI’s, Directions from Designers, Submittal review.
- Leadership Abilities to manage dynamic complex design-build environments.
Profile/Skills
- Four-year degree in a civil engineering discipline
- 15-20 or more years of relevant experience, 15 of which demonstrates experience on multi-discipline rail infrastructure projects
- Prior work managing/leading multi-discipline transit and rail design projects
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with different types of project delivery methods
- Experience leading large groups in multidisciplined specialties
Required Qualifications
- Four-year degree in a civil engineering discipline
- 15-20 or more years of relevant experience, 15 of which demonstrates experience on multi-discipline rail infrastructure projects
- Prior work managing/leading multi-discipline transit and rail design projects
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with different types of project delivery methods
- Experience leading large groups in multidisciplined specialties
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree(s)
- PE licensing in multiple states
- Experience with various city and state transportation organizations
- Member of ASCE, AREMA or APTA
Benefits
SYSTRA USA provides a benefits package including medical, dental, 401k and other offerings that focus on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
About the Role
We’re looking for a new Design Build Project Manager in our Infrastructure Group to help drive the objectives and challenges our valued clients have trusted us to solve for them. This opportunity will be assigned/based at our New York project office.
Company
SYSTRA delivers architecture, engineering and construction and program management services to our clients that offer public transportation, public education and public housing to our communities. We partner with public transportation owners and operators of bridges, buses, commuter and intercity, high-speed and light rail, mass rapid transit and tunnels, helping them provide safe, efficient and reliable public transportation. SYSTRA also serves public facility authorities that provide safe, attractive, and environmentally sound public schools and offer affordable housing to communities. Ranked 18th in US mass transit and rail design by Engineering News-Record (ENR), SYSTRA has been a trusted partner to public agencies and operators throughout the US since 1985 and employs nearly 200 personnel nationwide. Part of SYSTRA Group, a world-leading engineering and consulting firm, SYSTRA is supported by the over 10,500 employees worldwide. Using a collaborative approach built on the firm’s value of Connected Teams, we provide our clients and partners access to the best skills worldwide via sharing information, tools, best practices, and processes.