Project Manager – Highway and Transportation – Fresno, California

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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our highway and transportation infrastructure practice in Fresno, California. This role will support transportation projects throughout the Central Valley and surrounding region by delivering innovative and practical solutions that enhance the communities we serve.

The Project Manager will support and manage civil design efforts for transportation projects. Responsibilities will include coordinating multidisciplinary design teams, managing technical deliverables, and ensuring that design submittals, construction documents, and specifications are completed on schedule. The successful candidate will support high-quality engineering delivery in compliance with Caltrans requirements, local agency standards, and applicable industry criteria. Experience with transportation project delivery, technical design, project coordination, and client interaction is required.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a company representative with clients, Caltrans, local agencies, and subcontractors during project execution, participating in external and internal meetings and discussions.

• Work with discipline leads and project engineers to develop, coordinate, and monitor project scope, schedules, and budgets for Caltrans and other California transportation projects.

• Coordinate and review technical project deliverables, ensuring that applicable Caltrans, California, AASHTO, and project-specific technical standards are followed.

• Monitor project productivity, progress, milestones, and deliverable schedules, and communicate issues or risks to project leadership.

• Follow up on project instructions, action items, decisions, and commitments.

• Assign tasks and responsibilities to project team members based on project requirements, individual qualifications, and team capabilities.

• Support the execution of project tasks and deliverables and assist with resolving technical, schedule, budget, and coordination issues.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior staff and contribute to a collaborative, high-performance team culture.

• Ensure that applicable Parsons, Caltrans, and project-specific quality-management processes and requirements are followed.

• Support monthly reporting of project financials, schedules, progress, and performance metrics.

• Assist with scope development, fee proposals, change management, subcontractor coordination, and project controls, as needed.

• Perform other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate.

Requirements:

• Professional registration as a California Professional Engineer is required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related technical field.

• 10+ years of related civil engineering and project management experience on highway and transportations projects, with strong background delivering Caltrans Task Orders for PA/ED and PS&E and working on the State Highway System.

• Strong technical design background with experience supporting or delivering major transportation projects, preferably for Caltrans and other local agencies within Central California.

• Comprehensive knowledge of applicable Caltrans standards, policies, procedures, design manuals, project development processes, and District operations, as well as AASHTO requirements, the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, local agency requirements, public works contracting, and other applicable California transportation design standards.

• Experience with transportation design software and modeling platforms, such as OpenRoads, MicroStation, Civil 3D, or equivalent, is preferred.

• Must have the ability to coordinate projects, interface with clients and Caltrans representatives, and remain actively involved in technical project delivery. Project Managers are expected to be engaged in design development, technical reviews, project controls, coordination, and delivery.

• Working knowledge of transportation engineering principles, Caltrans standards, industry standards, design criteria, project controls, and quality-management practices.

• Proven ability to perform in a project management or coordination capacity, with excellent written and oral communication skills.

Security Clearance Requirement:

None

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!

Salary Range: $125,100.00 - $225,200.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

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