Design Manager- Rail & Transit en GHD

Bring your curiosity and determination to make a positive impact on the future of transport, and we’ll help you go all the way. 

Join our team of globally connected specialists to help solve complex transport challenges and experience groundbreaking projects from idea to delivery, and beyond.

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Who are we looking for?   

Our Rail & Transit Business Group in the U.S. West is looking for a dynamic and motivated individual to take on the role of Design Manager – Rail & Transit based out of our office in Santa Rosa, CA.

You will support our Rail & Transit Business Group’s leadership team and oversee rail and transit pursuits and projects across the State of California. The position will include support of business development, client relationship management, and leading a diversified portfolio of projects. The position may include limited staff management.

Our ideal candidate has strong leadership, business development, project management, and engineering skills. Established client relationships and a consistent record of developing new business opportunities is required. We are seeking self-motivated and active networkers who value building credible relationships with clients and the community.

In the problem-solving business, it helps to be restlessly curious to deliver community change. 

Our vision is to ensure energy, water and urbanization are made sustainable for generations to come. You can lead the way into a new future for our industry, inspiring the next generation of driven and committed people in the process. 
 

Learn about leadership opportunities with GHD. 

Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in: 

• Project Governance: Clarify roles and responsibilities within the project team and ensure project compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
• Portfolio Management: Plan and manage the delivery of projects within an area of professional expertise, using an appropriate project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are achieved.
• Project Team Management: Lead large project teams (or multiple small- to medium-sized teams); define the project vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; coordinate team actions across project activities; coordinate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• 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 Benefit Realization: Deliver baseline assessments and post-implementation analyses to evaluate and track the realization of business benefits.
• 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.
• Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units, such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.
• Leadership and Direction: Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
• 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.
• Transformational Change Management: Manage projects or substantial workstreams within a transformational change program, ensuring integration with related projects; use structured change management methodologies to build acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Enterprise Business Analysis: Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level.

• Bachelor’s (B.S.) degree from an accredited college or university in Civil or Structural Engineering
• Master's Degree or Equivalent Level

• Professional Engineer – Civil license in the State of California or the ability to obtain a license within six months of employment 
• Design Management experience on commuter rail and/or light rail projects within the U.S. and California
• Alternative project delivery (design-build, progressive design-build, and/or CM/GC) experience leading design team arrangements with contractors and consultants
• 10+ years of design management experience on large multi-discipline engineering teams ($500M+) with experience in complex station and facilities design
• Understanding of rail transit stations (at grade, elevated and underground), bridges, signals, and communication facilities
• Knowledge of scheduling software and engineering and capital cost estimating techniques is a definite asset.
• Experience with Building Information Modelling (BIM) on multi-discipline projects
• The ability to deal with uncertainty and changing & multiple priorities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Salary Range: $116,840 -$175,260 based on experience.   

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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.

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