Manager - Project Controls

About the role

The successful candidate will manage, supervise, and coordinate the activities of professional project control staff in performing a full range of program management and control functions for a major corridor with projects of various scope, size, and complexity.

Responsibilities

• Assume responsibility for the implementation and administration of tools and procedures required to effectively monitor design work, procurement, contracts, and construction activities for assigned corridor projects;
• Evaluate schedule and budget performance for the full range of activities;
• Avoidance of schedule and budget performance for the full range of activities;
• Assume supervisory responsibility for the project control services and activities of assigned corridor projects that includes a series of inter-related projects or functional areas of significant depth and complexity;
• Serve as technical advisor to assigned executive project director related to project controls systems and procedures to achieve on-time and on-budget goals.

Requirements

• Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or closely related field. Five years of project controls and reporting. Three years of leadership, budgetary, planning and workforce management experience for large, complex projects; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Preferred Licenses Or Certifications: Certified Cost Professional (CCP) by Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEI). Equivalent certification may be considered.

Qualifications

• Project controls principles and practices including principles of scheduling, risk management, VE, contract administration, public procurement processes, cost estimating, and document control.
• Operational characteristics, services, and activities of a project control program area.
• Public procurement practices and contract administration principles and practices.
• Financial accounting and work breakdown structure and its application to scope of project work.
• Methods and techniques of data collection, research, and report preparation, statistical and financial analysis.
• Pertinent federal, state, and local laws, codes, and regulations.
• Partnering and negotiation principles and practices.
• Principles of business letter writing and basic report preparation.
• Principles of customer service.
• Modern office procedures, methods, and equipment including computers and computer applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and statistical databases.
• Principles, practices, and procedures of leading programs/projects.
• Principles and practices of lead supervision and training.
• Utilizing personal computer software programs affecting assigned work and in compiling and preparing spreadsheets and reports.

Skills

• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other department staff, management, vendors, outside agencies, community groups and the general public.
• Interpreting and administering policies and procedures sufficient to administer, discuss, resolve, and explain them to staff and other constituencies.
• Utilizing contract management and risk management principles and practices.

Benefits

• Sound Transit offers a competitive benefits package with a wide range of offerings, including:
• Health Benefits: We offer two choices of medical plans, a dental plan, and a vision plan all at no cost for employee coverage; comprehensive benefits for employees and eligible dependents, including a spouse or domestic partner.
• Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Retail Plans: 401a – 10% of employee contribution with a 12% match by Sound Transit; 457b – up to IRS maximum (employee only contribution).
• Paid Time Off: Employees accrue 25 days of paid time off annually with increases at four, eight and twelve years of service. Employees at the director level and up accrue additional days. We also observe 12 paid holidays and provide up to 2 paid floating holidays and up to 2 paid volunteer days per year.
• Parental Leave: 12 weeks of parental leave for new parents.
• ORCA Card: All full-time employees will receive an ORCA card at no cost.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Sound Transit will pay up to $5,000 annually for approved tuition expenses.
• Inclusive Reproductive Health Support Services.

Pay

Salary range is $107k to $213k with a midpoint of $160k. New hires typically receive between minimum and midpoint, however, we may go slightly higher based on experience, internal equity and market.

Schedule

Not specified.