Principal Duties and Responsibilities
• Managing transit projects involving rail, signals, traction power and facilities and service planning as well as assisting in preparing market assessments, strategic plans for discipline growth, assisting in key hires, preparing scopes of work, conducting quality control reviews, and participating in lead roles in business development including proposal preparation and interviews.
• Manages transit and transportation planning/engineering and project development activities.
• Leads moderate to large projects for planning and implementation of rail transit including light rail, streetcar, commuter rail, freight rail and associated programs and projects.
• Manages projects of all significance, including developing solutions for difficult problems/tasks of unusual complexity and scope that require a high degree of innovation and ingenuity.
• Directs other planners/engineers and project team members in performing their project responsibilities.
• Supervises related support staff.
• Leads major projects and provides overall project leadership, including responsibility for QA/QC, and provides role of project director.
• Performs all levels of client contact, both internal and external.
• Overall responsibility for commercial or public sector projects, including technical, contractual, budget and schedule activities on medium to large projects and the development of client interfaces to promote continuing relations.
• Senior Project Manager duties also include responsibility for management and contract performance across multiple disciplines.
• Plans, directs and coordinates activities of projects to ensure the goals or objectives of these projects are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with clients.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with other engineering and architectural firms to partner on potential projects.
• Provides operational supervision and technical guidance to Project Manager(s) and other project or marketing personnel as required.
• Maintains contact with senior client management, office management and managers of applicable departments within Jacobs engaged transit projects.
• Regularly monitors the progress of projects or tasks through project management reviews.
• Works with marketing in preparation of contract proposals.
• Directs and supervises the activities of assigned personnel and provides for and enforces proper delegation of management authority, responsibility and accountability.
• Plans, directs, and coordinates activities of projects to ensure that goals or objectives of these projects are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
• Establishes work plan and multi-disciplinary staffing for each phase of project, and arranges for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
• Directs and coordinates activities of Project Engineers, Engineers, and Technicians to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.
• Initiates and reviews price proposals. Participate in interviews and presentations as applicable
• Maintains positive relationships with current and past clients as assigned. Informs Operations Manager or Sales Manager of potential opportunities to market Jacobs’s services.
• Serves as a representative of Jacobs at meetings, presentations, and public hearings/reviews relative to assigned projects.
• Develops reviews and obtains confirmation of financial and project delivery schedule activities of design and construction as they relate to all disciplines involved.
• Assures that the project team complies with the contract agreement and exercises cost control to implement the approved design within established budget restraints.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Substantial years experience as a Project Manager of rail/track projects
• MA PE Preferred
• MBTA experience preferred
• Experience should include managing transit programs and projects for planning/engineering and implementation of rail transit improvements.
• Requires extensive progressive technical experience in transit planning/engineering including rail modes.
• Requires knowledge and experience of Federal and State transportation regulations and programs, including FTA, FRA, FHWA, DOT and NEPA.
• Must have developed the following skills; engineering knowledge, leadership, oral and written communication skills, planning, teamwork, decision making, judgment and problem solving.
