Project Manager - Civil Engineering (CA)

Project Manager

Infrastructure Engineering Inc. (I E I) is looking for a Project Manager to join our Los Angeles, CA team! The Project Manager LA is responsible for the successful completion and delivery of the assigned projects with the high goal of exceeding the client's expectations in quality and service within the allocated schedule and budget. We are a leading engineering firm known for quality and responsiveness and a proven track record of success as a Prime civil engineering firm.

The Project Manager, through the Design Manager and Office Manager draws on the other members of the organization to lead the team with the resources, technical guidance, administrative, technical services and facilities necessary for efficient, profitable, timely and technically excellent project execution. In this highly visible role, you are expected to help establish marketing services and business connections in key sectors and/or disciplines including highway, roadway and transit; as well as government agencies such as LA County Public Works, LA Metro, Caltrans, and the City of Los Angeles.

The Project Manager is responsible for overseeing the planning, development, and execution of pursuit strategies, as well as the preparation and delivery of proposals within the LA Market. This role is responsible for the accuracy, consistency, and ongoing relevancy of key business development materials and databases, including CRM systems, to support efficient and informed decision-making across the firm. The Project Manager also manages a portfolio of diverse infrastructure and government contracts, delivering projects within established scope, schedule, and budget parameters while upholding industry standards for quality, safety, and best practices.

Essential duties/functions and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Conduct value engineering reviews to achieve an optimal balance between cost and quality.
• Draft, review, and validate change orders, managing risks and ensuring alignment among all involved parties.
• Facilitate communication among various stakeholders, including airport authorities, construction teams, and third-party consultants.
• Host regular project progress meetings to provide clear status updates and proactively identify potential issues that could affect project deliverables.
• Implement and oversee asset life cycle management strategies to ensure long-term operational efficiency and compliance with industry standards.
• Manage the design phase, ensuring engineering consultants deliver per contractual agreements.
• Oversee the construction phase, tracking timelines, milestones, and budgets while preparing regular status reports for the client.
• Review and validate engineering designs to comply with established standards and regulations.
• Oversees all proposal and statement of qualification development activities and works closely with marketing and technical team to ensure timely and quality responses to agencies solicitations.
• Ensure participation at pre-proposal meetings to better understand clients' proposal response expectations.
• Work closely with technical team to conduct post-presentation interviews on successful and unsuccessful presentations and "lost sales" debriefings as means of continuous improvements.
• Ensures personnel resumes and project profiles and summaries are relevant and current. Works closely with marketing and technical team to ensure necessary periodic updates.
• Works closely with marketing team to maintain and improve promotional materials, brochures, collateral materials, websites, newsletter and social network.
• Organize, develop and deploy consistent client touchpoint strategy for him/herself, leadership, technical and support staff with key decision makers, influencers and community stakeholders to ensure presence, visibility and market intelligence gathering.
• Support and assist Principals in developing government relationship strategy.
• Assess that appropriate personnel and resources are assigned, scheduled and equipped to engage in the deployment of business development initiatives. Work closely with executive leadership when additional resources and investments are required.
• Maintains frequent contacts with clients and other entities to monitor firm's professional reputation and stature.

Knowledge and skills:

• Oversee all business development activities firmwide by working closely with each office and department leads in executing of business development and sales strategy.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reports and metrics to share progress of business development initiatives, goals and tactics, i.e. sales, market growth, market/sector penetration, win/loss ratios, prime vs. partnership, etc.
• Develop and implement a monitoring system to provide appropriate information, on a routine basis to firm leadership, to ensure all office and department's business development tactics and strategies are being executed in accordance with the business development plan.
• Experience working within ERP, CRM, and/or system in a Corporate and/or Consulting environment (i.e. Deltek, Paycor, etc) a must
• Must be savvy in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams)
• Advanced Presentation and Communication skills required

Education and/or Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of hands-on design work in construction or infrastructure projects (preferably focusing on Government Contracts, Highway, Roadway, Transit or other infrastructure projects)
• Bachelor's Degree in Civil/Structural Engineering required; and an active Professional Engineer (PE) License (CA) required
• Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) is preferred, and a MA or MBA a plus
• Familiarity with Government Contracts; including experience in government work within LA County Public Works; LA Metro; CalTrans; City of LA Public Works
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills substantiated by a track record of successful project delivery.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in AutoCAD, MicroStation and other drafting programs.
• Ideally advanced level understanding of A/E/C Industry and Government Affairs is preferred.

Other Qualifications:

• Active registered Professional Engineer or Structural Engineer required.
• Additional registrations and accreditations (i.e. LEED AP, Certified Floodplain Manager, PTOE etc.) are desired.
• Other licenses or registrations may be considered in lieu Professional Engineer or Structural Engineer licensure.

Benefits and Perks:

IEI provides a comprehensive suite of Benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, and life; 401K program with employer match, profit sharing opportunity; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; paid Holidays, professional development and training programs; and tuition reimbursement/conference and training.

Compensation:

Salary Range: $130K - $210K

IEI is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. IEI reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

Physical Demands:

An employee must meet the physical demands described here to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to fingers, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; climb; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee may lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Working Conditions:

IEI will provide a company vehicle for fieldwork with acceptable driver's record. Must be physically capable of walking and moving about on the construction sites, have good hand-eye coordination, and occasionally lift/move up to 50 pounds. Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions or in-progress construction hazards: fumes, toxic chemicals, risk of electric shock, and vibration. Often works around dust, asphalt, and concrete. Sometimes needs to put in extra hours, including weekends, to keep up with intense construction work at times and deal with unexpected situations and accidents. Spends some time working indoors to review blueprints and write reports. Usually works a standard 40-hour workweek either daytime or nighttime. Usually works in outside weather conditions.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will work outdoors in various weather conditions, possibly for an extended period of time, depending on the assignment type. The noise level in the office work environment is usually moderate. The noise level on the construction site is often loud and may require the use of hearing protection.

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