Senior Technical Project Manager

About the role

The City of Alexandria is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to serve as a strategic leader in shaping the City’s capital program, guiding major design and construction initiatives, and strengthening our long-range facilities planning. This is a high-impact role for a seasoned professional who thrives at the intersection of innovation, technical excellence, and public service.

Responsibilities

• Support the Assistant Director to lead long-range capital facilities planning and prioritize strategies that extend asset lifecycle and optimize taxpayer investment.
• Develop and defend the 10-year Capital Improvement Plan, aligning project priorities with revenue forecasts, debt capacity, asset lifecycle data, and long-term fiscal sustainability.
• Utilize the City’s asset management system to develop studies, analyze data, and develop project proposals in partnership with real estate team, City planners, facilities portfolio managers, interdepartmental capital cross-teams, and community members.
• Deliver proposals to executive leadership and elected officials, ensuring alignment with adopted fiscal and policy priorities.
• Monitor and report capital program performance, including budget forecasts, cashflow projections, strategic priorities, and risk mitigation actions.
• Directly supervise a team of up to five project managers; provide mentorship and coaching support; establish career pathways, ensure adherence to technical standards, and performance expectations to strengthen team capability.
• Oversee delivery of high-impact capital projects, ensuring cost control, schedule adherence, construction excellence, strong communications with stakeholders, and alignment with Citywide strategic priorities.
• Advise the Assistant Director and senior leadership on capital program risks, opportunities, resource needs, procurement approaches, and vendor performance.
• Collaborate with other Capital team leaders to develop and implement standardized project delivery tools, technical specifications, and performance metrics to enhance consistency, transparency, and quality.
• Uphold the City’s 2021 Workplace Guidelines and ensure adherence across all facilities projects.
• Develop and implement facility design and planning standards and specifications in partnership with the DGS Facilities team and Climate Action Office.
• Collaborate with finance, technology, procurement, legal, user agencies, and external partners to streamline processes, accelerate delivery, and mitigate operational disruptions.
• Advance sustainability, energy management, carbon reduction, community equity, and resiliency goals within the CIP portfolio.
• Support and lead community, stakeholder, and elected official communication efforts, ensuring proactive engagement, clear updates, and coordinated decision-making.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Landscape Architecture; ten (10) years of related experience in a position as a Professional Engineer or Landscape Architect of which, five (5) years as a project manager; or any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Professional Engineer or Landscape Architect licensure required.

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will hold a master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Planning, Engineering, Construction Management, Landscape Architecture, Public Administration, or a related field, and will bring advanced certifications such as PMP, CCM, LEED AP, or similar credentials.
• Fifteen (15) years of related experience of which ten (10) years in senior management is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale or portfolio-level capital programs within a municipal or public-sector environment, including responsibility for long-range facility planning, CIP budgeting, procurement strategy, consultant oversight, technical and design expertise, and contractor performance.
• Strong leadership capability is expected, including experience supervising project managers, building team capacity, and developing standards and processes that drive consistency and excellence.
• Familiarity with facilities lifecycle planning, asset condition assessments, energy-efficiency and sustainability practices, and community equity and resiliency goals is highly desirable.

About The Department

The Department of General Services takes pride in shaping the spaces where our community lives, learns, works, and connects. Our mission is to deliver exceptional stewardship of public facilities and real estate, ensuring safe, sustainable, and high-performing environments that enable City departments to provide vital services every day.