Senior Project Manager

GHD; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

GHD is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex transportation and rail infrastructure projects that enhance safety, mobility, and community connectivity. This role will oversee multidisciplinary teams, manage project delivery, and ensure successful execution of planning, analysis, and infrastructure improvement initiatives.

The successful candidate will collaborate with public agencies, technical specialists, stakeholders, and community partners to develop and implement practical

Qualifications

• 6–10 years project experience within engineering industry
• Previous rail infrastructure experience
• Experience planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives (3–6 years)

Responsibilities

• Lead complex transportation and rail infrastructure projects with multidisciplinary teams.
• Oversee project scope, schedule, and budget to ensure successful delivery.
• Collaborate with public agencies, technical specialists, stakeholders, and community partners to implement transportation solutions.
• Manage stakeholder engagement and ensure client satisfaction while delivering high-quality results.
• Drive a culture of innovation and ensure governance, risk, and benefits realization are addressed.

Skills

Project management

Rail infrastructure

Resource planning

Stakeholder engagement

Team leadership

Job description

Job Description

Bring your curiosity and determination to make a positive impact on the future of transport, and we’ll help you go all the way.

Who are we looking for?

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex transportation and rail infrastructure projects that enhance safety, mobility, and community connectivity. This role will oversee multidisciplinary teams, manage project delivery, and ensure successful execution of planning, analysis, and infrastructure improvement initiatives.

The Project Manager will collaborate with public agencies, technical specialists, stakeholders, and community partners to develop and implement practical transportation solutions. The successful candidate will be responsible for project scope, schedule, budget, stakeholder engagement, and overall client satisfaction while delivering high-quality results.

What you'll be involved in:

• Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units, such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.
• Enterprise Business Analysis: Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level.
• Leadership and Direction: Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
• Personal Capability Building: Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Portfolio Management: Plan and manage the delivery of projects within an area of professional expertise, using an appropriate project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are achieved.
• Project Assurance: Manage the delivery of assurance reviews within a project, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified, to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.
• Project Benefit Realization: Deliver baseline assessments and post-implementation analyses to evaluate and track the realization of business benefits.
• Project Governance: Clarify roles and responsibilities within the project team and ensure project compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
• Project Resource Management: Negotiate and manage deployment of project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
• Project Risk and Issue Management: Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating these matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns.
• Project Scope Definition: Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables.
• Project Team Management: Lead large project teams (or multiple small- to medium-sized teams); define the project vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; coordinate team actions across project activities; coordinate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders, to develop positive stakeholder relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice.
• Transformational Change Management: Manage projects or substantial workstreams within a transformational change program, ensuring integration with related projects; use structured change management methodologies to build acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.

What you will bring to the Team:

• Over 6 years to 10 years project experience within engineering industry
• Previous rail infrastructure experience
• Experience of planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives as specified by more senior managers (Over 3 years to 6 years)

Our Hybrid Work Model

Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.

As a multicultural organization

We encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status or veteran status.