Process Project Manager Jobs in Beaumont, TX (NOW HIRING)

Manages advanced engineering, architectural, or construction projects, providing leadership in planning, oversight and compliance with state and federal regulations.  Oversees projects objectives, ensures quality assurance/quality control, and maintains project integrity.  Work requires extensive contact with agency management, governmental officials and private entities. Employees at this level are virtually self -supervising and assume direct accountability for the work product.

Essential Duties:

Technical Project Manager I:

• Analyzes and reports on advanced and highly complex program funding change scenarios and their impact to individual project schedules.

• Compiles and distributes project information, status reports, and project budget expenditures.

• Coordinates project activities with other state agencies, governmental jurisdictions, or private sector partners and contractors and assures coordination and approvals through Federal Highway Administration or U.S. Department of Transportation.

• Directs, develops, implements, and evaluates project budgets, schedules, work plans, resources requirements, and cost estimates and projections.

• Identifies potential project impediments, risks, and issues; and designs strategies to mitigate or avoid them.

• Monitors and manages project cost and quality to ensure project is completed within budget and to ensure deliverables are acceptable and fulfill the terms of the project contract or specifications.

• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.

Technical Project Manager II:

To include duties above: 

• Reviews and analyzes project performance and objectives to determine opportunities for improvement across personnel,processes, and technology.

• Evaluates project challenges and formulates solutions to achieve objectives related to productivity, quality, and client satisfaction.

• Evaluates and assesses business process improvement initiatives performed by others.

• Serves as a lead worker by advising, training, and coaching employees to increase job efficiency; acting as a resource for complex questions; presenting workflow and operational updates to the supervisor/manager; providing input on team members' career conversations; and approving leave requests to ensure operations coverage.

• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline. Relevant experience may be substituted for education on a year per year basis. Substitutions for Minimum Qualifications

Experience: 

Technical Project Manager I: 5 years construction project management; project management, process engineering and/or business process improvement methodologies. 

Technical Project Manager II: 6 years construction project management; project management, process engineering and/or business process improvement methodologies.

(Experience can be satisfied by full time or prorated part time equivalent).

Licenses and Certifications:

• Valid driver's license. This position requires driving a state vehicle.
• May require certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Six Sigma Black Belt or one or more change management
  disciplines.

   
Competencies:

Technical Project Manager I:

• Applicable plans, specifications and estimates preparation, review, processing and compliance requirements

• Applicable project development (planning, environmental, right of way, design, letting, construction, and project close

• Project Delivery Process

• Project Management best practices

• Project scheduling and coordination activities

• Systems and procedures used to evaluate a third-party vendor's performance

•  Public relations for maintaining effective working relationships with individuals and groups, both internal and external

• Addressing changes in scope and budget

• Leading, assigning, reviewing, and monitoring the work of others

• Project management monitoring

• Using computers and applicable computer software

• Analyze complex information and develop plans to address identified issues

• Identify project risks and gaps

• Evaluate process performance

• Establish project goals and objectives

• Follow applicable safety standards, practices and procedures

Technical Project Manager II:

• Critical Path Method for managing projects

• Leading, assigning, reviewing, and monitoring the work of others

• Project management monitoring

• Using computers and applicable computer software

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Subject to environmental conditions; protection from weather but not temperature changes 

• Subject to outside environmental conditions; no effective weather protection 

• Subject to inside and outside environmental conditions 

• Subject to extreme cold and heat; below 32 and/or above 100 degrees for more than one hour 

• Subject to noise 

• Subject to vibration Subject to hazards-moving vehicles/mechanical parts, high places/heat, or chemicals 

• Subject to atmospheric conditions-fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, poor ventilation 

• Subject to air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids 

• Required to wear protective gear-respirator, hard hat, or other device 

• Works frequently in small/crawl spaces; manholes; areas that can cause claustrophobia 

• Works in narrow aisles or passageways Sedentary work:

• Lift up to 10 lbs at a time and occasionally carry small files/tools

Conditions of Employment:
Please click this link to read the standard conditions of employment for all positions: Standard Conditions of Employment (TxDOT)

• This job has been identified as physically demanding and will require a pre-employment physical. 
• Must pass a drug test prior to employment for safety impact positions. This is a Safety Impact position and will be subject to random drug testing.
  • Please note that the Department of Transportation's Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulation - 49 CFR Part 40, at 40.151(e) - does not authorize "medical marijuana" under a state law to be a valid medical explanation for a positive drug test result for an employee in this position.