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Engineering Project Management

The Engineering Project Management role leverages project management practices to lead projects, initiatives, and work units; manages project teams including all supervisory, development, and performance evaluation responsibilities; interacts with project stakeholders including funding sponsors, project engineers, and technical tradesmen; develops and implements project plans related to budget, resource allocation, reporting, compliance, and operational processes; identifies and implements operational changes to accomplish the project goals and objectives.

• Collaborate with investigators to develop, execute, and update the project plan; establish, implement, and assess project management strategies; design project infrastructure to promote efficient workflows and high-quality, innovative deliverables; maintain quality assurance processes and ensure a focus on delivering project commitments
• Lead strategic planning efforts including implementing, assessing, and revising processes and procedures; recommend changes that impact project direction; oversee data reporting and analysis efforts
• Provide leadership and direction for a project team; responsible for all management activities including hiring, supervision, training and professional development, and performance evaluation
• Facilitate communication between sponsors, investigators, resource managers, project engineers, and technical tradesmen; manage and track project schedule, resources, deliverables, and milestones
• Manage stakeholder project and product needs; coordinate with investigators to manage and adhere to sponsor requirements
• Facilitate, review, and approve task/project budgets, work breakdowns, rough order estimates, task prioritization, and integration plans with investigators and program managers; coordinate with investigators and financial teams to create project budget baseline; establish and update the project budget
• Provide relevant project data including cost and hours input to financial teams to create estimates; review project costs on a regular basis to ensure accuracy in preparation for project close out
• Collaborate with financial and property inventory teams to review fabrication costs; ensure correct classification, work breakdowns, and coding in preparation for project close out
• Manage all status collection, reporting, and schedule management activities; prepare reports and other associated project documentation
• Manage project resources; oversee subcontracts including identifying and qualifying subcontractors, risk management, and reviewing agreements
• Coordinate with project investigators to ensure adherence to regulatory and sponsor requirements; oversee compliance and security needs of the project, coordinate with the PI to manage regulatory requirements
• Coordinate and resolve conflicts within and between project and program teams; recommend and implement solutions
• Serve as liaison with other work units, programs, and various other organizations/groups to disseminate information and promote research activities

Level:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 17
• Minimum – $141,700.00
• MidPoint – $180,700.00
• Maximum – $219,600.00