Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is a Community Centered Utility working to make Seattle the best place to live for everyone. We deliver high quality, vital services, across four major lines of business: providing water, solid waste, drainage and wastewater services for Seattle residents and businesses. In addition, SPU provides drinking water for 1.4 million regional customers in Seattle and other municipalities. Our customers depend on us to deliver high quality, reliable, and cost-conscious utility services and to achieve the highest benefits possible for every investment we make. With that goal in mind, we pursue everything we do with the following core areas of focus:
 

• Achieve Excellence in Core Service Delivery 
• Increase Affordability and Accountability 
• Improve Investment Value 
• Enhance Public Health and Environment 
• Ensure Equity and Inclusion 
• Expand our Impact through Strong Partnerships

• Collaborate with Utility and City staff including planning, finance, operation and maintenance units, engineering, and construction management staff to advance that program and portfolio management agenda.

• Coordinate with peers across the Utility and City to tackle project delivery issues and process improvements.

• Routinely check in with rehabilitation project managers on project health and help tackle program-level issues.
• Develop and build upon existing program management tools, standards, and methodologies.
• Own, maintain, track and monitor, rehabilitation program and portfolio budgets and earned value, and routinely report on performance to finance and Capital Planning and fellow Delivery Program Managers.
• Manage risk across rehabilitation project and programs and support/collaborate on DWW portfolio risk management.
• Perform resource planning and coordinate and negotiate resourcing needs for delivery of rehabilitation projects with key resource managers in the Branch.
• Track lessons learned and plan/prioritize potential improvements based on impact and resource availability.  
• Contribute to the development (forming) and ongoing strategy (norming) of a new team of Capital Planning and Delivery Program Managers.
• Support diverse and multi-functional project teams, that include internal and external stakeholders, in overcoming hurdles to deliver rehabilitation projects. 
• Lead and support the solicitation and negotiate of contracts with consultants, including scope, schedule, quality, and cost. Manage execution of signed contract.
• Support the acquisition of environmental, interagency, and local permits from a programmatic perspective. Lead programmatic permit acquisition.  
• Support and lead the resolution of complex project and program implementation issues. 

Education:  Bachelor’s in Project Management, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Public Administration, Business Administration, or related field or two years of additional relevant experience.
 
Minimum Experience:  Five (5) years of progressively responsible project, program and/or portfolio management experience that demonstrates a thorough understanding of capital project management and capital construction management.
 
License:   At the time of appointment must hold a valid Washington State Driver License.
 

The ideal candidate should possess:

• Experience working with multiple and varied stakeholders including capital project team members, vendors, consultants, permitting agencies, community members, and customers. 
• Experience mediating groups with different needs toward a solution.
• Good interpersonal skills, ability to work with people from diverse professional, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. 
• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills.
• Experience negotiating contracts and other agreements.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to motivate colleagues and facilitate teamwork.
• Ability to comfortably forge a new path developing and defining undefined processes, while also listening to those that delivery the work.
• Ability to balance competing stakeholder needs.

• What are two strategies you would use to facilitate a group of colleagues (that you do not supervise) toward a united path forward on an issue in which they do not agree?
• Describe your leadership style and approach to collaboration.