Transportation Program Director - South Texas

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Job Description:

We love the energy of your competitive spirit

If you see roadblocks as mere challenges and competitors as benchmarks to beat, we share your desire to win. Your creative drive to beat the competition— and beat your own past performance — is reflected in your management style and will be applauded and rewarded here. The "can-do" attitude that you inspire in your team is what keeps our organization charging ahead. If our approach to business energizes you, beat the competition and apply now!

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Parsons seeks a Senior Program Director to play a key role in growing our traditional transportation design services with TxDOT (and other agencies). The successful candidate, working with our management team will drive this growth, increase our win rate, and increase our sales pipeline. The market is robust and accessible to Parsons with addition of a few key staff in the large metro areas in Texas. The Program Director role will include participating in the Texas strategy development working the leadership team, client outreach especially for major South Texas TxDOT districts (Houston, San Antonio, etc.), and, as assigned, serve as capture manager for priority pursuits.

Ready to put your project management expertise to work on complex projects? Are you great with people and have a track record managing teams that get the job done? Parsons is now hiring an experienced Senior Program Director with a desire to work on creating innovative, practical solutions to various projects that enhance the fabric of our community.   For assigned projects you will be responsible for the scope development, scope management and commercial performance of the project to meet project goals and objectives.  Plans and defines program goals and devises methods to accomplish them; develops in depth knowledge of client objectives, contract terms and corporate policies.

Ready to lead our team? In this role you will oversee our design staff based in Houston Texas. This role can eventually expand to central Texas. In this role you will mentor and challenge our team to deliver great results. You will help our team set and achieve goals supporting Parsons objectives and each individuals career path.
 

This job is based in our Houston, TX office.

Parsons has immediate projects with the Texas Department of Transportation and other large public agencies which will expose engineers to a large variety of tasks.  Some field review activities may be associated with the assigned tasks, so engineers are expected to be able to travel for these assignments on an as-needed basis.

Other upcoming work opportunities include large scale design-build proposals/projects located in Texas and in other states, plus civil engineering assignments associated with various transit projects in North America.

Below is just a sampling of recent projects that our Houston, Texas staff have worked on including:

• IH 35E managed lanes design-build reconstruction in Dallas/Denton Counties
• SH 183 managed lanes design-build reconstruction in Dallas and Irving
• VIA Metropolitan Transit bus rapid transit design in San Antonio
• SH 249 design-build new highway construction near Houston
• US 183N Toll Lanes design-build in Austin
• US 380 PS&E, TxDOT Dallas District
• IH 30 PS&E, TxDOT Ft Worth District
• City of Kilgore, TX Roundabout, TxDOT Tyler District
• FM 1621 Roadway Improvements, TxDOT San Antonio District
• US 77 Drainage Improvements, TxDOT Corpus Christi District
• I-14 Schematic and Environmental, Waco District

Our team is tried and true so your results will be too!

If you would like the confidence of knowing that you’re leading a team of solid performers, you’ve found the right place. Managing is so much more comfortable, orderly, and productive when every member of your team is on the same page, working towards a proven and time-tested result. Our culture of diversity and inclusion adds to team synchronicity, as we appreciate the skill and diligence that everyone brings. Let our track record back your success. Join us.

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:

Proven ability to perform in a management capacity, excellent written and oral communications skills, and a thorough knowledge of industry practices and regulations are also required.  In addition, must be knowledgeable of cu