PMA seeks a Project Manager responsible for total Construction Support Service Contract (CSSC) execution in accordance with the requirements of the contract between CSSC and LACMTA who will serve as the primary point of contact for all management, financing, and contractual issues. The CSSC Project Manager is directly responsible for ensuring that appropriately trained and vetted staff are available to the LACMTA as required. The CSSC Project Manager is also responsible for understanding all aspects of the contract between the client and the project progressive design-build (PDB) contractor. The Project Manager will manage schedules, arrange assignments, prepare action plans, analyze risks, assess value engineering opportunities, gather necessary resources, and communicate progress to LACMTA. The CSSC Project Manager shall provide oversight of the PDB contractor’s project schedule and budget to ensure they are in accordance with the PDB contract. 

• Liaise with the client representatives to ensure proper and timely involvement and maintain a professional relationship with the client staff throughout the life of the contract.
• Allocate resources in a timely manner and manage contract staffing plan.
• Oversee onboarding and training of new CSSC staff.
• Manage contract budget, controlling and monitoring all costs.
• Prepare executive reports that detail staff activities, track contract goals, changes, cost, and resource expenditures, and forecast and identify any potential contract budget or schedule issues.
• Develop and update the contract management plan.
• Understand all aspects of the CSSC Contract and G Line BRT Improvements PDB Project.
• Maintain appropriate relationships and assist with communication between LACMTA and the PDB contractor.
• Establish project processes and procedures using a combination of best management practices and LACMTA established processes and procedures in the areas of project controls, document controlling, inspection, budgeting, and scheduling.
• Monitor project schedule and budget and identify tracks and elevate issues to LACMTA Project Manager.
• Evaluate and report on PDB Contractor schedule and budget performance.
• Ensure the project schedule adequately accounts for all aspects of design and construction.
• Support LACMTA in the identification and assessment of project risks and value engineering opportunities.
• Establish best management practices for estimate review, quantity take-off tracking and verification, and open-book negotiations.
• Establish best management practices for transitioning the project from Phase 1 design and preconstruction activities and services to Phase 2 final design and construction activities and services.
• Provide all necessary reporting to Metro executive leadership.

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, business administration, architecture, or other technically equivalent field is required.
• Approximately ten years of experience in the field of project administration or project management on transit projects required.
• Experience delivering three or more projects of at least $30 million each with alternative delivery methods, including design-build, progressive design/build, and/or CM/GC required.
• Approximately three years of supervisory experience in the management of major design and/or construction contracts of similar size and scope required.
• Demonstrated organizational, technical, and team-building skills to manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams required.
• Valid California Class C driver’s license required.
• Experience working within the City of Los Angeles on design and construction projects required.
• Experience working for a government agency or as a consultant for a government agency (project manager, planner, engineer) desirable.