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The Challenge

We are looking for a senior transportation project management engineer to join our team leading NCDOT's transportation projects' scoping, scheduling, budgeting, quality, and risk management.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the daily activities and tasks on multi-disciplinary teams to deliver preconstruction projects to construction,
• Conduct project development, environmental analysis, planning, and design.
• Manage a portfolio of centrally-managed State Transportation Improvement Projects (STIPs) and non-STIP projects during the pre-construction phase to ensure projects are delivered on schedule, within scope, and within project budget.
• Lead the team preparing environmental studies, environmental analysis, environmental documentation, engineering studies, design products, special provisions, quantities, final plans, and contract documents.
• Track project changes.
• Maintain project schedules and milestones.
• Identify risks, opportunities, and mitigation strategies to ensure projects remain in scope, on schedule, and within budget.
• Analyze environmental data and design information.
• Request technical deviations and exceptions.
• Provide comments to Senior Project Managers on centrally-developed environmental studies and documents.
• Ensure products meet quality expectations.
• Communicate with team members to expedite completion of critical tasks, document environmental decisions, complete designs, and ensure deliverables are in compliance with all federal/state laws, rules, regulatory actions, policies, and procedures.
• Request technical deviations and exceptions to advance projects.
• Provide oversight to private engineering firms (PEFs), administer PEF contracts, review and process invoices, make recommendations to our Senior Project Manager, and provide consultant performance feedback.

What You Bring

• Experience overseeing/managing complex transportation projects and developing/managing project scope, schedule, budget, quality, and project risks.
• Professional engineering principles and practices of civil engineering knowledge related to Highway Design with an emphasis on project planning, environmental studies and analysis, project design, construction, and maintenance methods related to the Project Delivery Process.
• Management experience leading teams applying engineering principles to difficult/complex environmental and design situations, making sound recommendations and decisions, and providing design guidance.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and fostering communications with senior leadership, stakeholders, the public, and among project team members.
• Knowledge of Professional Engineering contracts and the ability to understand scoping, estimating, and negotiating contracts.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, and
• 4+ years of relevant experience; or
• An equivalent combination of education and experience.

Note

• We may require registration as a professional engineer by the NC Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors.

Questions?

Call me: Brittany Holland at 919-707-6309.

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