Program Manager – Disaster Recovery

Description

Hill International is an international construction consulting firm that provides program and project management, construction management, cost engineering and estimating, quality assurance, inspection, scheduling, risk management and claims avoidance to clients involved in major construction projects worldwide.

Hill has participated in over 10,000 project assignments with a total construction value of more than $500 billion.

Hill is a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HIL), and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

We are seeking a Program Manager for Disaster Recovery work CONUS

The Program Manager is responsible for leading, managing, and coordinating complex major capital projects under client requirements.

Typical duties include establishing scope, budget, and schedule for capital projects; leads communication across various divisions and stakeholders to include city, state and the public.

This position is responsible for matrixed staff and sub-consultants reporting directly to client.

• Responsible for leading, coordinating all aspects of complex major capital projects during re-construction with owner

• Overall responsibility for managing established scope and budget for capital projects assuring these assigned project managers and guided and mentored throughout the project.

• Ensures communication between members of a multi-disciplinary project management teams both client and project staff.

• Oversees consultants and contractors involved in capital projects and facilitates strong communication and coordination between these entities.

• Communicates and coordinates project status with staff from affected federal, state, regional and local agencies.

• Regularly communicates project status, milestones and issues with leadership.

• Develops and oversees regular preparation of project status reports, including monthly reports for leadership and member.

• Ensures project compliance with all federal, state and local laws, regulations, codes and standards.

Familiarity with FEMA-PA,IA,HMGP and HUD-CDBG-DR Projects preferred.

• First level lead for all consultant and sub-consultant team.

• Responsible for development of staffing plans related to contract.

• Responsible for budgeting activities and review and approval of all client invoicing.

• Responsible for designing and implementing the operating and supporting processes and relative IT systems for implementation of program.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Science in Construction Management, Project Management, or Architecture and fifteen years increasingly responsible experience in project/construction management in a supervisory role, with a minimum of ten years of experience in managing major capital projects over $350MUSD involving multi-agency or multi-stakeholder projects; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties such as those listed.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Management principles and practices; Construction regulations and standards; Civil engineering, architectural design and systems design and construction; Project budgets, estimating and related documents; Principles of contractual compliance and administration.

• Local, regional, state, and federal agencies, groups and organizations involved in transit planning and development.

• Laws, codes, regulations, and legal requirements related to public transportation.

• Organizing heavy and complex workloads, establish and adjust priorities, and accomplish objectives within established scopes, budgets, proccesses and schedules.

• Effective communications and interpersonal skills and the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with executive managers, city staff representation, and transit constituencies.

• Using computers and related software applications; intermediate to advanced computer skills (Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint) are required.

• Interpreting and applying local, state, and federal policies, procedures, laws, and regulations.

• Must possess technical and procedural writing skills as well as excellent verbal and presentation skills.

• Coordinating the knowledge and efforts of agency staff, consultants, and contractors.

• Communicating in order to interact with client, direct staff and numerous sub-consultant team to exchange or convey information.

Hill International is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Minority/Female/Veteran/Disabled

Note: This job description is intended to provide an indication of the nature and levels of work, knowledge, skills, abilities and other essential functions to be carried out as part of fulfilling the role mentioned in the job title.

Various other duties as required.

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