GENERAL DESCRIPTION:   

Ensure the efficient delivery of statewide highway design projects by providing project management oversight and support.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: The listed functions are illustrative only and are not intended to describe every function which may be performed in the job level.

• Provide Project Management oversight on assigned Highway design projects; Schedule and facilitate project meetings, maintain project notebooks and schedules, and ensure issues are communicated effectively and brought to resolution.

• Monitor, review, analyze, and forecast project schedules to ensure task completion dates are met in a dynamic project delivery environment.

• Serve as a liaison to facilitate the communication of project schedules, status, and needs across the agency.

• Develop and generate standard, ad hoc, and custom reports that summarize information to be presented to decision makers

• Train and provide technical assistance to internal Project Management Software users.

• Perform complex data analysis to identify and research historical data associated with project schedules, activity durations, and resource efforts to establish baseline project schedules.

QUALIFICATIONS:

PREFERENCES:  

-Preference may be given to candidates with a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or similar.

KNOWLEDGE:  (Examples of Knowledge are intended to be cumulative for each progressively higher level of work.  The omission of specific statements does not preclude management from assigning other knowledge.)

• Skilled in written and oral communications; interpersonal relationships; organizational and time management; the use of project scheduling software (such as Oracle Primavera); office automation software (Microsoft Word and Excel or Google Documents); document management systems (Falcon); database principles and report writing tools (such as SQL, Infoview and Crystal Reports).

• Ability to work and make decisions independently; maintain and manage multiple priorities; collaborate with program managers, district engineers and information technology experts; identify critical path activities and facilitate the resolution of challenges in project delivery; apply new technologies.

• Knowledge of the Department’s processes, policies, and procedures relating to plan development and delivery; preliminary engineering design activities and their predecessor and successor activities; principles of project scheduling and project management; engineering principles and practices.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: