Head of project management - Atlanta, GA, United States - City of Atlanta

Description

Here at the City of Atlanta, we are passionate about building and improving our community. Our Police Officers, Fire Fighters, and Building Inspectors keep our Citizens safe. Our Public Works Staff keep our City clean and help to maintain, build, and improve our City's infrastructure. Our City planners help envision and shape future City growth. Our Parks & Recreation professionals enhance our quality of life.

Our Engineers help to keep our drinking water clean, the largest airport in the world (by passenger volume) operating, and our buildings maintained.

The Department of Watershed Management is a regional public water and wastewater utility serving 1.The Department's core services include treatment and distribution of safe drinking water; collection and treatment of wastewater to a high standard; management of watersheds within the City of Atlanta; and customer care and billing services for 164,000 accounts.

Service Delivery, Infrastructure Reliability, Workforce Development, Operational Efficiency, Financial Resilience, Compliance, Smart Utility Transformation; and Safety, Security and Emergency Management.

The Project Manager II(CIP) is responsible for planning, directing and coordinating, usually through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities concerned with the construction and maintenance of structures, facilities and systems.

Duties at this level include but are not limited to:
participating in the conceptual development of a construction project; and managing schedules and budgets.

This level would be considered a promotional level and attainable by any incumbents in a work group who demonstrate the necessary knowledge, ability, and performance.

manages conflict resolution and team-building activities; performs team and individual performance evaluations and reporting. Tracks and reviews departmental performance measures.

Oversees designs, plans and manages the scheduling of capital infrastructure projects; develops scope of work and cost estimates for projects while maintaining compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations.

Oversees engineering surveys and studies; evaluation and analysis of capital infrastructure projects including reports, costa analysis, budget availability and feasibility studies.

Manages water distribution, wastewater collection, water treatment facilities, wastewater treatment facilities or watershed protection type projects for the City.

Reviews contractors' daily journals for comparison to inspectors' daily journals for accuracy and congruency to avoid any conflicts when contractors are preparing applications for payment to the City for delivered work.

Supervises staff and encourages staff development.

Plans out projects by creating a comprehensive set of plans that will enable the project team to deliver the project objectives.

Monitors and controls project efforts by reviewing project work results and comparing them to planned results. Applies organizational policies. Establishes work methods, timetables, performance standards, etc.
Typically has formal project management and/or skills development responsibilities.
Manages progress meetings to review status of ongoing projects and coordinates with the Public Information Manager, Safety Officer, Project Controls/Schedule Manager, Permit Coordinator and Land Acquisition team to review work in progress and data deliverables to
ensure the project is within budget and on time.
Directs project field inspection and engineering support staff and ensures that major project deadlines are met.

Reviews permit applications for appropriate erosion control measures, proper sewer connections to the public sewer, and proper grding and drainage proposed work.

Mitigates potential risk by incorporating clear and verifiable safety and quality requirements and procedures and enforcing contract requirements for work plans, accurate specifications and safety.

Attends project status meetings and reports on cost; prepare bi-monthly, monthly & quarterly project and program cost reports.

Formats and maintains bi-monthly project and award status reports utilized by CIP Program Director to determine existing and future funding.

Has managerial authority over a group of professional employees and/or a group of professional, technical, or administrative employees with multiple intermediate supervisors and/or team leaders.

Knowledge of:

principles and practices of project management including scope development and tracking, organization planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management and conflict management.

Knowledge of:
surveying, engineering and construction methods.

Knowledge of:
planning, engineering design and construction management.
Skills in time management of self and others; listening and communicating exceptionally to effectively convey information verbally and in writing; Skills in: Oracle, Discoverer, Excel and other technical software in order to create well-structured documents, reports, spreadsheets, presentations, proposals and other management documents;
Skills in reading and interpreting legal documents such as legal descriptions of property;

Ability to:

manage time and workload effectively which includes planning, organizing and prioritizing a variety of tasks, assignments, projects and reports, working with attention to details; and network with civic, community and other special interest groups.