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.
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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.
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Monitor, review, analyze, and forecast project schedules to ensure task completion dates are met in a dynamic project delivery environment.
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Serve as a liaison to facilitate the communication of project schedules, status, and needs across the agency.
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Develop and generate standard, ad hoc, and custom reports that summarize information to be presented to decision makers
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Train and provide technical assistance to internal Project Management Software users.
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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.)
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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).
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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.
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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:
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree (typically in Business)
PLUS
Experience:
0-3 years of progressive work experience (typically in Business) with acquired knowledge at the level of a Policy & Planning Analyst I
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Education & Experience Substitution:
4-6 years of progressive work experience (typically in Business) with acquired knowledge at the level of a Policy & Planning Analyst I
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
None