Project Manager - Design Support Group, Design Services - Harris County

Position Overview

The Design Services Group is a multidisciplinary team of engineers, architects, landscape architects, and constructability technicians offering comprehensive design and construction support services. The Project Manager for the Design Group oversees engineering and infrastructure projects from conception to completion. Responsibilities include defining project scope and schedule, allocating resources, and leading a professional team. The Project Manager serves as the subject matter expert, managing project communications and ensuring successful delivery.

 

Key duties involve conducting feasibility studies, preliminary engineering design (considering environmental, hydraulic, and hydrology impacts), alternative and risk analysis, cost estimation, environmental clearance, final design, right-of-way acquisition, and utility coordination and relocation. Initially, the focus will be on parking lots, roadways, sidewalks, trails, and related infrastructure, with potential expansion into other engineering fields based on the candidate's expertise and initiative.

Job Duties and responsibilities

 

• Assist with consultant procurement and manages internal and external resources to adequately staff the project.
• delivery team, including contract negotiation and managing the project budget.
• Use Harris County Design Software and Resourced to produce complete studies and permitted plan sets.
• Promote project controls, tracking, and enhanced reporting using Project Management Software (i.e., eBuilder),
• which includes advancing projects from planning to design, to construction, to occupancy.
• Utilize the software to manage project scopes, costs, schedules, and documents.
• Maintain responsibility, oversight, and knowledge of the entire portfolio of projects assigned to the Project.
• Management Team: meet regularly with department management and senior client representatives to discuss their projects.
• Identify and address risk to schedule, budget or performance with subordinate project managers and engage.
• management as necessary to resolve issues and mitigate risks before impacting project delivery.
• Work closely with assistant project managers, graduate engineers, consultants, and other related subject matter experts in the preparation of planning and construction documents and complete ancillary support tasks to successfully bid and award capital roadway projects.
• Ensure that quality assurance, risk management, regulation compliance and permitting is properly executed utilizing the Project Management Institute (PMI) business model and works closely with the Capital Improvement Division leadership to track and report project status.
• Work closely with management to monitor and adjust internal processes that further promotes efficient project execution. This includes assisting with the development of written plans to document and processes for use by Design Services staff, support staff, and outside team members to ensure project delivery consistency.
• Conduct the full range of supervisory duties for assigned Project Managers to include (but not limited to)
• workplace safety, training and development, performance management, staffing, policies and procedures, and balancing workload.
• Adapt when emergencies or short turnaround projects arise.
• Perform other duties as assigned, including emergency or disaster event support.