Project Manager - Civil Engineering

Description

• Organize, develop and deploy consistent client touchpoint strategy for him/herself, leadership, technical and support staff with key decisions makers, influencers and community stakeholders to ensure presence, visibility and market intelligence gathering.
• Usually works in outside weather conditions.
• Draft, review, and validate change orders, managing risks and ensuring alignment among all involved parties.
• Review and validate engineering designs to comply with established standards and regulations.
• Facilitate communication among various stakeholders, including airport authorities, construction teams, and third-party consultants.
• Implement and oversee asset life cycle management strategies to ensure long-term operational efficiency and compliance with industry standards.
• Ensures personnel resumes and project profiles and summaries are relevant and current. Works closely with marketing and technical team to ensure necessary periodic updates.
• Ensure participation at pre-proposal meetings to better understand clients’ proposal response expectations. Work closely with technical team to conduct post ‐ presentation interviews on successful and unsuccessful presentations and “lost sales” debriefings as means of continuous improvements.
• Manage the design phase, ensuring engineering consultants deliver per contractual agreements.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reports and metrics to share progress of business development initiatives, goals and tactics, i.e. sales, market growth, market/sector penetration, win/loss ratios, prime vs. partnership, etc.
• Oversee the construction phase, tracking timelines, milestones, and budgets while preparing regular status reports for the client.
• Oversee all business development activities firmwide by working closely with each office and department leads in executing of business development and sales strategy.
• Spends some time working indoors to review blueprints and write reports.
• Support and assist Principals in developing government relationship strategy.
• Sometimes needs to put in extra hours, including weekends, to keep up with intense construction work at times and deal with unexpected situations and accidents.
• Assess that appropriate personnel and resources are assigned, scheduled and equipped to engage in the deployment of business development initiatives. Work closely with executive leadership when additional resources and investments are required.
• Host regular project progress meetings to provide clear status updates and proactively identify potential issues that could affect project deliverables.
• Develop and implement a monitoring system to provide appropriate information, on a routine basis to firm leadership, to ensure all office and department’s business development tactics and strategies are being executed in accordance with the business development plan.
• Conduct value engineering reviews to achieve an optimal balance between cost and quality.
• Works closely with marketing team to maintain and improve promotional materials, brochures, collateral materials, websites, newsletter and social network.
• Oversees all proposal and statement of qualification development activities and works closely with marketing and technical team to ensure timely and quality responses to agencies solicitations.
• Maintains frequent contacts with clients and other entities to monitor firm’s professional reputation and stature.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of hands-on design work in construction or infrastructure projects (preferably focusing on Government Contracts, Highway, Roadway, Transit or other infrastructure projects)
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working within ERP, CRM, and/or system in a Corporate and/or Consulting environment (i.e. Deltek , Paycor, etc ) a must
• Ideally advanced level understanding of A/E/C Industry and Government Affairs is preferred
• Must be savvy in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams)
• Usually works a standard 40-hour workweek either daytime or nighttime.
• Must be physically capable of walking and moving about on the construction sites, have good hand-eye coordination, and occasionally lift/move up to 50 pounds.
• Proficient in AutoCAD, MicroStation and other drafting programs.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil/Structural Engineering required; and an active Professional Engineer (PE) License (CA) required
• Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) is preferred, and a MA or MBA a plus
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills substantiated by a track record of successful project delivery.
• Advanced Presentation and Communication skills required
• Familiarity with Government Contracts; including experience in government work within LA County Public Works; LA Metro; CalTrans ; City of LA Public Works

Benefits

• IEI will provide a company vehicle for fieldwork with acceptable driver's record.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance