Capital Development Project Manager

Annual Salary Range: $96,824.00 - $150,092.80
First Review of Applications: February 28, 2025
Expected Start Date: April 2025

Role

The Capital Development Project Manager provides support to develop, monitor, and maintain scope, cost, and schedules for capital transportation projects, and participates in technical and project management studies related to the SANDAG capital improvement program. This position will perform complex and difficult project management duties that require specialized skills, advanced technical knowledge, and expertise. 

SANDAG’s Project Management Support Office Overview  

SANDAG’s Project Management Support Office is responsible for developing, implementing policies, directives, guidance and tools related to project management and project delivery; including training and other support needed across the organization such as maintaining the standards of project management by monitoring scope, cost, schedule, risks, resources and quality for all projects within the agency’s capital program. 

This includes monitoring and controlling projects budgets, resources and schedules and streamlining project management for over 100 projects, with a multiple year investment of over $9 billion. SANDAG partners with Caltrans, transit operators and local jurisdictions in order to implement these major transit, highway and bikeway projects throughout the region. In addition, the Project Management Support Office maintains public accountability by ensuring data quality of the public TransNet Dashboard, an interactive tool which provides in-depth reporting on the progress of TransNet funded Major Corridor projects.

Typical Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with major course work in engineering, project management, or a related field. A master’s degree or PMP certificate is desirable.  A combination of education and recent work experience may be considered in lieu of the bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of five years of increasingly responsible, professional project control, project scheduling, project management, finance, or budgeting experience preferably supporting the delivery of capital projects, including some lead or supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing and delivering numerous project management tasks and deliverables.
• Experience providing technical guidance to project team members and collaboratively preparing and maintaining detailed, critical path-based project schedules; knowledge of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) particularly related to resource planning, milestones, and deliverables.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the principles and practices of management and project control measures; experience consulting and strategizing with project managers and providing technical guidance for the development of project management plans for complex capital improvement projects.

Benefits 

SANDAG offers comprehensive benefits, to include health, dental, and vision insurance as well as employee assistance, wellness, and work/life balance programs. Additionally, SANDAG offers the following: 

• Hybrid work options
• 9/80 flexible work schedule
• Pay-for-performance merit increases
• Retirement - Defined Benefit Plan with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)
• Retirement - 457 Defined Contribution Plan with Voya
• Excellent health insurance options for employees and their eligible dependents
• Free dental and vision insurance for employees and their eligible dependents
• Education Assistance of up to $5,250 a year for regular employees
• Free transit pass for use throughout the San Diego region, bus, Rapid Express, Trolley, and COASTER
• Paid time off including 12 paid holidays, 2 floating holiday days, generous paid time off (PTO) per year, depending on length of service

 Call (619) 699-1900 or visit https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sandag? for information. First review February 28, 2025. EOE.