Senior Project Manager 2 (Civil Engineering)

GAI Consultants Inc. is seeking a Senior Project Manager in our Power & Energy Business Unit. GAI is an established Mid-Atlantic engineering firm with growing presence in the Southwest. GAI’s Power Business Unit focuses on developing and supporting Energy, Institutional, Industrial, and Manufacturing clients. An ideal candidate’s opportunities would include developing client and business relationships and providing staff management, electric distribution networks, and civil engineering expertise across a diverse range of multi-discipline design and construction projects. This position is eligible for GAI’s flexible hybrid and/or remote work schedules and a Sign-on Bonus (for direct applicants to GAI). 

Responsibilities:

• Building solid relationships with Energy, Institutional, Industrial, and Manufacturing clients and internal clients within GAI’s Business Sectors.
• Leading business development pursuits, developing statements of qualifications and proposed project scopes of work, schedules, budgets, and fees.
• Developing a solid understanding of and marketing the services GAI performs.
• Collaborating, developing, and executing our business plan.
• Serving as a primary seller/doer for the Civil and Environmental / Power Delivery Engineering Business Sectors throughout our active service territories, with specific focus on electric and gas resiliency programs.  
• Providing design, management, and technical direction and oversight associated with on multi-discipline design and construction projects.
• Leading teams to successfully execute all assigned projects.
• Working with Accounting staff to monitor and control project costs and billings to meet budgeted profit.

General Characteristics

• Uses creativity, foresight, and mature judgment to anticipate and solve problems.
• Practice activities and culture.
• Sets priorities and reconciles directions from competing interests.
• Leads projects with complex features with work performed directly, or by others.
• Integrates engineering economics and risk analysis into the solutions of complex engineering problems.
• Integrates solutions to complex problems across specialty areas.
• Demonstrates leadership.

Minimum Years of Experience

• Minimum of 18 years of total engineering or technical experience, with at least 10 of those years serving as a Project Manager leading and directing projects or portfolios, preferably with an engineering consulting organization or similar professional.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in an engineering or applicable technical discipline as required.
• Advanced technical degree or MBA is strongly preferred.

Certification/Licensure

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification is preferred or desire to obtain.

Technical Responsibilities

• Required mathematical skills are commensurate with the technical or engineering discipline practiced (e.g., engineering calculations, design, etc.)
• Demonstrated mastery of fundamental project management financial concepts, including developing pricing, cost budget monitoring, calculating profit, etc.
• Demonstrate in-depth understanding of software as needed to successfully perform the duties described here, including MS Office Suite applications and software, CAD programs, document management systems, database software, HR Systems, internet software, and reporting tools related to databases.
• Experience with Deltek for Professional Services as a Project Management / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Platform, including Client Relationship Management applications is preferred.

Project and Task Management

• Approximately 40% of job duties are dedicated to project management and 10% to technical delivery.
• Delivers scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety and profitability of all projects or portfolios managed.
• Plans and manages multidisciplinary projects of high value with high-risk profiles or a portfolio of multiple projects.
• Directly manages over $5 million per year of total billings and portfolios of higher value. The maximum individual project size is $5 million without prior approval of the President.
• Projects managed are typically time-sensitive, unique and /or very complex, of significant magnitude, scope, and difficulty.
• Demonstrated expertise in the development of project schedules, cost budgets and understanding and analysis of the financial data.
• Works closely with Project Controls staff to monitor and control project cost and billings to meet budget profit, to a