Job Description

Help us build the future—and lead the growth of our municipal construction services practice.

Our global network is made up of architects, designers, planners, engineers, and environmental scientists all working toward the same goal: delivering sustainable outcomes for communities. Join a collaborative, technically strong organization where you will be empowered to build teams, grow client relationships, and deliver impactful municipal infrastructure.

Who are we looking for?

The Project Manage- Construction will work across Transportation, Water, Buildings, and Construction Phase Services leadership to establish and execute a focused growth plan for Northern CA. The position will cultivate trusted relationships with public agencies, teaming partners, contractors, and industry organizations; identify and capture priority opportunities; and provide senior oversight for construction management, program management, project management, resident engineering, and owner-advisory assignments.

The role is intentionally practice-flexible. It will connect client needs with GHD capabilities across multiple infrastructure sectors while strengthening a high-performing regional team through recruiting, mentoring, resource planning, and collaboration across business groups and geographies. The successful candidate will bring an owner-focused perspective, practical construction judgment, broad multidisciplinary experience, and the ability to move effectively between market development and hands-on delivery leadership.

Our Hybrid Work Model: Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Client & Customer Management (External): Manage important client relationships with guidance from senior colleagues, or oversee relationship management with a group of more transactional clients and customers.
• Continuous Improvement: Review existing operations in a major area of work and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure the required continuous improvement outcomes are delivered.
• Document Preparation: Edit document in line with organizational style guidelines and prepare information for publication.
• Personal Capability Building: Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Project Assurance: Manage the delivery of assurance reviews within a project, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified, to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.
• Project Closeout and Handover: Provide appropriate documentation and training to enable successful transition to business as usual. Identify and record lessons learned to inform future project activity.
• Project Planning: Oversee the production of project plans and approve them, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized to deliver program and project objectives, and comply both with the organization's project and program management framework and with the organization's wider governance structure and processes.
• Project Reporting and Review: Manage the project review process; provide stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations at established review points to enable them to evaluate progress and agree on change.
• Project Resource Management: Negotiate and manage deployment of project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
• Project Risk and Issue Management: Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating these matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns.
• Project Scope Definition: Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables.
• Project Team Management: Lead a small- to medium-sized project team; communicate the project vision and the necessary outcomes, along with guidance to achieve these outcomes; coordinate team actions on project activities; coordinate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and identify areas of improvement to build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Requirements Management: Plan and coordinate the identification and elicitation of requirements; conduct analysis of those requirements for completion and alignment; document and manage requirements throughout the life of the project; and coordinate the verification of the end deliverable. Generally done at the project level.
• Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders, to develop positive stakeholder relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice.
• Work Scheduling and Allocation: Develop medium- or long-term work schedules that enable the organization to achieve its business goals. Involves coordinating across multiple teams.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or a related discipline or equivalent experience

Qualifications and Experience

• Approximately 15 or more years of progressively responsible experience in public infrastructure, including substantial construction management, program management, project management, and business development leadership.
• Experience leading construction management assignments and multidisciplinary capital projects in more than one infrastructure market.
• Broad understanding of the Northern California public infrastructure market, including clients, partners, contractors, and competitors.
• Experience coordinating civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, utilities, telecommunications, and operational interfaces.
• Ability to travel as needed to client, project, and industry locations.

EEO Statement US: As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status or veteran status.

Salary range: $128,000- $214,000 based on location and experience

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