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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Project Manager to join our team! In this role, you will lead and manage complex transportation engineering projects from planning through delivery, while driving financial performance, client satisfaction, and team development.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Leads a team to complete transportation projects; responsible for fulfillment of executed client contracts and financial performance of project
- Establish and monitor project scope and fee, ensuring work is performed according to agreed-upon contract, diligently obtaining modifications as required
- Use appropriate project management tools to track project tasks and timelines, ensuring timely completion of project stages in accordance with project schedule
- Manage and review design task assignments for a team, including preparation of design calculations, plans, and submittals
- Communicate high-level concepts effectively with team members, internal design groups, and external entities including clients, subconsultants, and relevant government agencies
- Coordinate with other disciplines throughout the duration of the project to ensure a streamlined design process with minimal revisions
- Promptly and successfully attend to client needs; defuse and solve conflicts, escalating issues as needed
- Provide or obtain constructability reviews; perform independent peer reviews on project submittals
- Potentially serve as the Engineer of Record for assigned projects
- Build client relationships, help identify business opportunities, and have client accountability
- Participate in project meetings with clients, sub-consultants, and contractors as necessary
- Negotiate and fully execute contracts with clients and subconsultants in conjunction with company finance and legal team
- Work with Project Accountants to set up projects, review expense and labor charges, generate timely client invoices, and assist in collections of outstanding accounts receivables
- Submit and regularly review financial reports, including percent complete, client billing, outstanding accounts receivable, and project profitability
- Utilize Client Relationship Manager (CRM) to accurately report and track ongoing business opportunities and pursuits
- Ultimately responsible for proposal management on lead pursuits, including preliminary and final reviews
- Other marketing duties include providing timely resume updates, project write-ups, proposal support, and participating in marketing initiatives as required
- Seize opportunities to teach, coach and mentor; foster positive development and enrichment of assigned team, preparing them for new positions
- Identify skills and knowledge gaps within the department, seek opportunities to provide internal trainings, and identify worthwhile external training content
- Participate in personnel forecasting, recruiting and interviewing activities, candidate selection and new hire onboarding
- Ensure timely completion of time sheets and expense reports for self and team
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Transportation Engineering
- Professional Engineer (PE)
- 15+ years of related work experience is required and previous project management experience on similar or related projects
Security Clearance Requirement:
NoneThis 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: $134,100.00 - $241,400.00We 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.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Civil or Transportation Engineering
- Professional Engineer (PE)
- 15+ years of related work experience with previous project management on similar projects
Parsons Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
