Construction Senior Director

Salary Range: 250000 to 275000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Organizational Responsibilities

• Leadership Roles: Provide leadership functions which may include the following: 
• Team Management: Recruit staff, conduct interviews, hire, assign work, and provide training, coaching, mentoring, and counseling to apply employee guidelines and operational processes consistently. 
• Client Management: Serve as PMA’s representative in front of the client’s organization(s) and lead the management efforts of the associated accounts. This may include but is not limited to managing day-to-day client relationships; overseeing overall PMA team performance and relationship with the client’s organization; serving as a point of contact for PMA for associated accounts; and collaborating with PMA’s leadership in communication with staff. 
• Business Development: Support and lead PMA’s business development activities as needed. This may include but is not limited to active participation in finding business opportunities; coordinating or supporting the development of business proposals; and collaborating with other PMA groups, offices, and/or marketing teams in business development-related activities as needed. 
• Business Governance and Risk Management: Oversee the implementation and compliance of PMA’s internal policies, guidelines, and contract management. Support management and communication efforts between PMA’s leadership and/or corporate teams with staff. 
• Corporate / BU Initiatives: Support and lead PMA’s Corporate and/or Business Unit Initiatives as needed. 
• Communication and Coordination: Support and lead the coordination and management of projects by collaborating with cross-functional teams. This may include but is not limited to engaging with stakeholders to understand project needs and goals.  Develop meeting minutes, action items, and support meetings as necessary. 
• Document Controls: Coordinate and manage key project documentation and decisions over the course of the project.  
• Administrative Tasks: Support and perform administrative duties.  This may include, but is not limited to, preparing invoices, estimates, and scheduling meetings. 
• Teamwork: Work closely with various teams and stakeholders to ensure timely project completion. 
• Knowledge Management: Support PMA’s internal knowledge sharing with the team and support corporate knowledge management, where applicable. 
• Predictable and reliable attendance. 


• Technical Roles: Provide Project Controls and Project Management functions which may include the following: 
• Project Oversight: Act as the owner’s representative throughout the project lifecycle. Oversee all project phases, including planning, design, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Works with various team counterparts (e.g., the general contractor, consultants, sub-consultants, etc.) during design and construction and with municipal-level participants during project, design, and construction coordination.  Provide oversight of architects, engineers, subconsultants, contractors, and others per the contract. Perform responsibilities through final project audits and/or closeout.  
• Project Budget: Develop and manage internal project budgeting, risk mitigation, quality control, and health and safety plan compliance. 
• Project Cost: - Support project cost functions. This may include, but is not limited to, development, monitoring, and control of project costs. Support and track project/program funding sources and cash flow. Support cost estimating development and review functions.   
• Project Schedule: Support project planning and schedule control functions.  This may include, but is not limited to, development, monitoring, and control of project schedules.   Support the review of such materials as needed. 
• Project Change Control: Support reviewing and controlling project changes and their effect on project cost, schedule, and resources. 
• Performance Control and Monitoring: Measure and control cost, schedule, and technical performance against tasks or project plans and define impact.  This may include but is not limited to supporting and preparing analyses and reports on expenditures, progress, commitments, budget performance, and schedule performance. 
• Project Reporting: support project reporting efforts, as needed, to meet project/client’s expectations. This may include, but is not limited to, periodic progress status reports, presentations, customized communications, and presenting findings to clients and/or project stakeholders.  
• Risk Management: Support overall project risk management practices. This may include but is not limited to risk identification, assessment of potential impacts, control, monitoring, and support efforts to manage potential impacts. 
• Claim Support and/or Dispute Resolution: Support the claim and dispute resolution process. This may include, but is not limited to, data collection, contract administration support and review, negotiation/mediation, expert report development, and/or claims avoidance. 
• Other duties as assigned.

Position Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or equivalent relevant experience in engineering or construction.
• 15+ years of experience in wastewater, sewer, pipeline, tunneling, or related public works projects. 
• CA PE License or CCM certification required.