Summary
This job involves leading transportation projects like building new roads, expanding existing ones, and improving intersections and traffic signals in Loudoun County, Virginia.
You'll manage everything from initial planning and design to land acquisition, utility relocations, and overseeing construction while staying on budget and schedule.
It's a great fit for someone with experience in engineering project management who enjoys coordinating teams, handling permits, and communicating with the public and officials.
Key Requirements
- Experience overseeing transportation project design, including roads, intersections, and traffic signals
- Ability to manage engineering consultants through all project phases from pre-design to construction
- Knowledge of VDOT design standards, Locally Administered Projects Manual, and regulatory compliance
- Skills in land acquisition, utility coordination, and obtaining necessary permits
- Proficiency in budget, schedule, and scope management aligned with capital improvement plans
- Capability to conduct field investigations, environmental analyses, and prepare reports/presentations
- Experience reviewing plans for drainage, grading, erosion control, and traffic elements
Full Job Description
Requirements
Loudoun County, Virginia, is seeking applicants for an experienced professional to serve as a Project Manager for the Transportation Capital Projects team, within the Department of Transportation and Capital Infrastructure (DTCI). As a Project Manager, you will oversee the design of transportation projects, to include new roads and roadway expansions, intersection improvements, and traffic signals. You will coordinate with other County staff to acquire land and relocate utilities as part of the development for each project. You will be responsible for managing engineering design consultants through the pre-programming, pre-design, project design, plan development, land acquisition, utility relocation, and construction administration phases. You will manage project scopes, budgets, and schedules consistent with the County’s Capital Improvement Plan and VDOT project agreements and dashboards.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
*Develop and process transportation design plans in accordance to VDOT design standards and the VDOT Locally Administered Projects Manual, which includes review of layout, drainage, grading, erosion and sediment control, utility, maintenance of traffic, striping and signage, and traffic signal design plans, processing plans to obtain regulatory approvals, oversight of plan production and revisions through all phases of a project.
*Conduct field investigations and oversee environmental, subsurface, and floodplain analyses.
*Obtain permits necessary for project construction.
*Technical consultation reviews.
*Utility coordination, field inspections.
*Prepare presentations and reports and present information at public meetings and before the County's Board of Supervisors.
*Prepare specifications and construction documents.
*Prepare of scopes of work and requests for proposals to procure design services.
*Review drawings and documents to assure compliance with County and VDOT designs and production standards.
*Regularly meet with DTCI and County staff to monitor project status, costs, and schedules and report the status of projects to DTCI management.
*Manage consultant and contractor contracts.
The ideal candidate will possess excellent written and verbal skills. Project management, estimating, and scheduling skills are essential. This position is eligible for partial telework in accordance with County and Department Policies.
This position is eligible for a $6,000 hiring bonus in accordance with the County’s Hiring and Retention Bonus Program.
Hiring salary is commensurate with experience.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree with engineering coursework or degree related to assigned area; three (3) years of professional engineering and construction management work experience of a complex nature with direct design as well as administrative experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Additional Information
Successful candidates will undergo a criminal background check including DMV and credit checks.