Senior Project Manager - Utility Capital Programs
$72.5 - $85 per hourCMTS LLC
Job Description
Job Description
Senior Project Manager – Utility Capital Programs
Seattle, WA
Full-Time | On-Site/Client-Facing
Why Join CMTS?
At CMTS, we deliver complex infrastructure and capital improvement programs that strengthen communities and improve essential public services. With more than 40 years of industry experience, CMTS provides a strong foundation for professional growth, long-term career development, and meaningful project work.
We foster a collaborative culture centered on integrity, accountability, employee well-being, and continuous learning. Join CMTS and help lead major municipal utility projects throughout the Puget Sound region.
About Your Role
CMTS is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager – Utility Capital Programs to support a major municipal utility capital improvement program in Seattle, Washington.
The Senior Project Manager will lead multiple task orders under an on-call public-sector contract. Assignments may include project planning, alternatives analysis, design support, construction-phase services, commissioning, and project closeout.
This position will serve as the primary day-to-day client contact while managing multidisciplinary project teams, engineering subconsultants, project controls, financial performance, quality, and contract compliance.
Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field
- Equivalent professional experience may be considered
What You’ll Need to Get the Job
- At least 12 years of experience delivering public-sector capital projects
- At least five years of experience supporting municipal water, wastewater, stormwater, drainage, or related utility infrastructure projects
- Demonstrated experience managing task-order, on-call, or indefinite-delivery contracts for public agencies
- Experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and client expectations
- Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder-management abilities
- Proven leadership of multidisciplinary consultant and engineering teams
- Experience developing scopes of work, cost estimates, work authorizations, and task-order proposals
- Knowledge of public-agency contracting practices and consultant-services agreements
- Ability to successfully complete a background check
Preferred Qualifications
- Project Management Professional certification
- Professional Engineer licensure
- Experience supporting Seattle-area public agencies
- Familiarity with the City of Seattle contracting environment
- Experience with phased or stage-gate project delivery
- Knowledge of owner asset-management frameworks
- Experience working within a rotational or rapidly mobilized task-order environment
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead the execution of task orders under a multi-award municipal utility on-call contract
- Direct projects involving planning, options analysis, preliminary engineering, final design, construction support, commissioning, and closeout
- Serve as the primary client contact for assigned task orders
- Develop, scope, price, negotiate, and execute task orders and work authorizations
- Mobilize multidisciplinary teams to meet changing client needs and project schedules
- Manage multiple concurrent assignments while maintaining schedule, budget, quality, and technical performance
- Direct engineering consultants, technical specialists, and subconsultant teams
- Manage subconsultant contracts, scopes, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and performance
- Prepare project budgets, financial forecasts, cost reports, and earned-value analyses
- Review invoices, monitor project profitability, and identify potential financial risks
- Lead project-progress meetings, executive briefings, stakeholder discussions, and client presentations
- Prepare executive-level reports, technical documentation, meeting summaries, and client correspondence
- Enforce quality-assurance and quality-control requirements for all project deliverables
- Confirm compliance with owner standards, technical specifications, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices
- Identify project risks and implement mitigation strategies to maintain project performance
- Support WMBE and DBE inclusion goals, subcontractor participation, supplier-diversity initiatives, and utilization reporting
- Contribute to proposals, Statements of Qualifications, technical narratives, interview preparation, and public-agency pursuits
- Mentor project staff and promote accountability, collaboration, and continuous communication across project teams
Skills and Abilities
- Strong project, program, and task-order management skills
- Advanced budgeting, forecasting, cost tracking, and financial-management abilities
- Excellent negotiation, conflict-resolution, and decision-making skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and changing client requirements
- Strong understanding of public-sector capital project delivery
- Knowledge of construction administration, commissioning, and project closeout
- Ability to build and maintain long-term client relationships
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, and technical-writing skills
- Proficiency with project-management, scheduling, financial, reporting, and document-control systems
- Strong attention to detail while maintaining a strategic understanding of overall program objectives
Compensation
$72.50–$85.00
Equal Employment Opportunity
CMTS LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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