Senior Project Manager — Municipal Utility Capital Programs

Cmts-LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

CMTS LLC in Seattle, WA seeks a Senior Project Manager – Utility Capital Programs to lead a major municipal utility capital improvement program. This on-site, client-facing role manages task orders, planning, design, construction support, commissioning, and closeout with multidisciplinary teams.

The role requires 12+ years of public-sector capital project experience, strong leadership, and a background in water/wastewater infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience delivering public-sector capital projects
• 5+ years supporting municipal water, wastewater, or related utility infrastructure
• Experience managing task-order, on-call, or IDIQ contracts for public agencies
• Experience managing 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Job description

CMTS LLC in Seattle, WA seeks a Senior Project Manager – Utility Capital Programs to lead a major municipal utility capital improvement program. This on-site, client-facing role manages task orders, planning, design, construction support, commissioning, and closeout with multidisciplinary teams.

The role requires 12+ years of public-sector capital project experience, strong leadership, and a background in water/wastewater infrastructure.