Martinus Bottom Line is a market leading, full-service railway infrastructure company that builds and maintains large scale railroads and intermodals within North America. We have the internal resources necessary to construct full turnkey railway projects for the Class 1, Short Line and Industrial markets.
Job Summary
The Project Manager will be the single point accountability for the development and delivery of rail construction projects undertaken by Martinus. The Project Manager will participate in concept development and plan, schedule, manage and co-ordinate the project to ensure objectives and agreed specifications are achieved in accordance with the program, resource requirements, budgets, quality and safety standards and customer expectations. The Project Manager will monitor deliverable compliance of direct reports and ensure the achievement of Project KRAs.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Quality, Environmental and Safety
- Ensures that the appropriate personnel are in place with delegated responsibilities to guarantee quality, environmental and safety procedures are integrated.
- Responsible for overall quality management of major projects or programs.
- Ensures that relevant divisional managers or leads complete all outstanding defects as a matter of priority.
- Promotes a positive safety and environmental culture, particularly Martinus’s commitment to achieve ‘target zero’.
- Enforces compliance with all relevant HSE policies, procedures, and relevant legislative requirements, in particular rail safety legislation.
Planning and Operations
- Plans, directs, and coordinates activities of the designated project to ensure that goals or objectives of project are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
- Reviews project proposal or plan to determine timeframe, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.
- Establishes work plan and staffing for each phase of project and arranges for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
- Directs and coordinates activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.
- Reviews status reports prepared by project personnel and modifies schedules or plans as required.
Contractual/Financial
- Enforces compliance with head contract provisions and conditions and subcontract agreements to protect the company’s position financially and contractually.
- Identifies, assesses, and prepares variations of the head contract, and presents these variations to the construction manager/project director.
- Remains financially responsible and accountable for the project profitability.
- In conjunction with divisional managers, provides project vision, sets profit targets and project objectives for self, team and company.
- Conducts regular reviews of project budgets to ensure accurate revenue, cost flow and profit/loss forecasting.
- Oversees budget and ensure financial accountability.
Project Management
- Responsible and accountable to ensure that all assigned personnel are coordinating their activities with other project participants and that the requirements of the contract are being satisfied.
- Allocates and retains the best possible project staff in collaboration with the divisional manager and Human Resources.
- Assists with building existing and recommending and establishing, new relationships with key clients, consultants, and partners in the region.
Skills and Experience
Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree (Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or similar discipline).
- 10 + years’ experience in an engineering/construction role.
Desirable:
- Relevant experience in a rail construction environment.
- Ability to travel throughout the USA as required. Role will require up to 30% travel.
Equal Opportunity Employer – Race/Color/Sex/Religion/National Origin/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Vets/Disabilities
