Senior Transportation Project Director - Ardurra Group, Inc.

Ardurra is seeking a Senior Transportation Project Director to join our staff in Southern California.

Primary Duties:

The Senior Project Director will have operational responsibility for a portion of the business and plan, direct, and oversee transportation/transit projects within Ardurra’s California Transportation Practice. You will be responsible for overall operations and profit and loss, business development, proposal development, project management, and oversight for various public agency projects. This is an exceptional opportunity to be involved with mega infrastructure multimodal transportation projects for our key clients.  Qualified applicants will be able to demonstrate an established career in the transportation, transit and rail industry and have a successful track record with the delivery of mega-multimodal transportation programs. The objective of the position is to lead, pursue, develop, and execute major projects required to deliver client programs within established and agreed budgets and schedules.  You will also provide technical expertise to ensure that projects are delivered on budget, on schedule, and the technical and quality standards meet all expectations. In addition to your project responsibilities, you will provide technical solutions and advice, mentoring and development to other engineers.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead development and execution of significant rail/transit projects including light rail, heavy rail subway, commuter rail, high-speed rail, and/or bus rapid transit surface, aerial or underground project pursuits and delivery (traditional and alternative)
• Establish relationships and interact with major clients such as LA Metro, RCTC, OCTA SANDAG, SBCTA, CHSRA, SCRRA, BNSF, UPRR, and Caltrans
• Staff and manage multidisciplinary transportation project teams.
• A desire to work with external contractors/consultants, Ardurra’s other divisions/regions and interact directly with major clients.
• Be a visible leader and trusted advisor to clients by promoting Ardurra’s values both internally and externally.

Skills include:

• Ability to monitor and evaluate the operations of projects.
• Thorough understanding and ability to analyze financial reports.
• Actively involved in monitoring the budget, schedule, and quality on projects
• Supervising staff and recruiting new staff when needed
• Successful experience in proposal writing to obtain work.
• Have strong and established relationships with local agencies.
• It is also favorable to have established relationships throughout the region.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• BA/BS + 15 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• California PE

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Knowledge of local municipal and agencies standards and requirements.
• Ability to prepare/review technical reports, specifications, cost estimates and engineering studies.
• Ability to perform effective Quality Control (QC) for plans, estimates, technical reports, and studies.
• Experience in planning, project development, scheduling, supervising, and managing civil engineering project development team’s preparation of concept plans, engineering reports, specifications, and opinions of probable costs.
• Demonstrate evidence of successful interaction with clients on resolution of technical and management issues.
• Understanding of engineering services contract development and management to include some understanding of budget preparation, scopes and fees, billing rates, job codes, utilization, and effective multipliers.
• Ability to interpret legal documents related to engineering.
• Skilled in utilizing MS Office Suite programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, Project) and other software such as Primavera. 
• Ability to guide, direct, and coordinate with multiple professionals involved in infrastructure projects and to manage the performance of various personnel in other departments.
• Excellent written, oral, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills, including the ability to present to clients at meetings, for proposals, and the public.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, time management and organizational skills.

Salary: $170-$240k depending on experience

Why Ardurra?

While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun. We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home.

Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

Ardurra does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agency Agreement, Ardurra will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. If a resume or candidate is submitted to any hiring manager without a previously signed agreement, Ardurra reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. These candidates will be considered property of Ardurra. We’re not currently looking to add any more agencies to our list of approved vendors, so please do not contact any of our managers or recruitment team with sales calls or details of your candidates.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) Project Management