Senior Project Manager – Utility Capital Programs

About the role

CMTS is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager – Utility Capital Programs to support a major municipal utility capital improvement program in Seattle, Washington. The Senior Project Manager will lead multiple task orders under an on-call public-sector contract.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of task orders under a multi-award municipal utility on-call contract
• Direct projects involving planning, options analysis, preliminary engineering, final design, construction support, commissioning, and closeout
• Serve as the primary client contact for assigned task orders
• Develop, scope, price, negotiate, and execute task orders and work authorizations
• Mobilize multidisciplinary teams to meet changing client needs and project schedules
• Manage multiple concurrent assignments while maintaining schedule, budget, quality, and technical performance
• Direct engineering consultants, technical specialists, and subconsultant teams
• Manage subconsultant contracts, scopes, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and performance
• Prepare project budgets, financial forecasts, cost reports, and earned-value analyses
• Review invoices, monitor project profitability, and identify potential financial risks
• Lead project-progress meetings, executive briefings, stakeholder discussions, and client presentations
• Prepare executive-level reports, technical documentation, meeting summaries, and client correspondence
• Enforce quality-assurance and quality-control requirements for all project deliverables
• Confirm compliance with owner standards, technical specifications, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices
• Identify project risks and implement mitigation strategies to maintain project performance
• Support WMBE and DBE inclusion goals, subcontractor participation, supplier-diversity initiatives, and utilization reporting
• Contribute to proposals, Statements of Qualifications, technical narratives, interview preparation, and public-agency pursuits
• Mentor project staff and promote accountability, collaboration, and continuous communication across project teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field
• At least 12 years of experience delivering public-sector capital projects
• At least five years of experience supporting municipal water, wastewater, stormwater, drainage, or related utility infrastructure projects
• Demonstrated experience managing task-order, on-call, or indefinite-delivery contracts for public agencies
• Experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and client expectations
• Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder-management abilities
• Proven leadership of multidisciplinary consultant and engineering teams
• Experience developing scopes of work, cost estimates, work authorizations, and task-order proposals
• Knowledge of public-agency contracting practices and consultant-services agreements
• Ability to successfully complete a background check

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional certification
• Professional Engineer licensure
• Experience supporting Seattle-area public agencies
• Familiarity with the City of Seattle contracting environment
• Experience with phased or stage-gate project delivery
• Knowledge of owner asset-management frameworks
• Experience working within a rotational or rapidly mobilized task-order environment

Skills And Abilities

• Strong project, program, and task-order management skills
• Advanced budgeting, forecasting, cost tracking, and financial-management abilities
• Excellent negotiation, conflict-resolution, and decision-making skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and changing client requirements
• Strong understanding of public-sector capital project delivery
• Knowledge of construction administration, commissioning, and project closeout
• Ability to build and maintain long-term client relationships
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and technical-writing skills
• Proficiency with project-management, scheduling, financial, reporting, and document-control systems
• Strong attention to detail while maintaining a strategic understanding of overall program objectives

Pay

$72.50–$85.00 per hour