TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGER - 55012648

Requisition No: 837095 

Agency: Department of Transportation

Working Title: TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGER - 55012648

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 55012648 

Salary:  $58,697.49 - $75,961.46 

Posting Closing Date: 09/20/2024 

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STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

JOB POSTING DESCRIPTION

Cost Center 542 / Consultant Project Management

OPEN COMPETITIVE

CAREER SERVICE

CONTACT PERSON:  April Willis

CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS: April.Willis@dot.state.fl.us

ANTICIPATED BI-WEEKLY HIRING SALARY: $2,838.60

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:  You may be required to provide your Social Security Number to conduct required verifications. Male applicants born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion in the Career Service, or appointment in the Selected Exempt Service (SES) or Senior Management Service (SMS) unless they are registered with the Selective Service System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS.

THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION VALUES AND SUPPORTS EMPLOYMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.  QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.  In accordance with Section 110.112, Florida Statutes, and the Florida Department of Transportation’s Individuals with Disabilities Affirmative Action Plan, the agency is committed to ensuring affirmative action and equal employment opportunity for qualified individuals with disabilities.  Upon request and as appropriate, reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities may be provided.  Please contact the Florida Department of Transportation’s Human Resources Office located at 605 Suwannee Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399, or call (850) 414-5300 for assistance.  

POSITION DESCRIPTION: Performs highly advanced technical work related to roadway engineering management, including independent analysis, development, evaluation and maintenance of processes and tools to manage project controls for projects in the Five-Year Work Program. Responsible for the planning, resource allocation, implementation scheduling, development and quality assurance of management tools, requirements verification, training and operational coordination of data and processes required for all consultant project management activities.

Proactively seeks input from project managers and supporting offices to accurately document meaningful business workflows and user needs. Effectively communicate and coordinate with stakeholders and technical staff while ensuring the preservation and integrity of the engineering process. Evaluate and bring any proposed changes causing conflicts with existing engineering processes, production commitments or financial commitments to the attention of the District Consultant Project Management Engineer. Coordinate with other offices to attain consistent practices and proper flow of data across disciplines. Create and maintain a database of business practices in Consultant Project Management. Coordinate the design and implementation of reports to monitor and control progress, quality and performance of project controls. 

Conducts the set-up and operational maintenance of Enterprise Systems in Consultant Project Management and act as the subject matter expert. This includes the development, deployment, operations and maintenance of web pages and applications for Project Suite Enterprise Edition (PSEE), Central Florida Roads, and Consultant Project Management’s Project database. Serve as liaison to Central Office personnel to ensure compatibility and integrity of functionality, business practices and data availability of Enterprise systems. 

Identifies, develops, deploys and monitors custom databases, SharePoint sites and web sites within the Design Office.  Configure web applications and site collections. Create front-end portals, user profile services and reporting tools. Follow provisioning policies to grant access identification for the Districts' managed resources. 

Assists in the development of public engagement strategies and tools for the Consultant Project Management office. This includes drafting, reviewing, and editing materials released to the public, government partners, and internal customers such as project information handouts and presentation materials for the project managers. Coordinates and schedules dry runs for public meetings, strategy meetings, and provides support for virtual public meetings.  Assists in document review, researching, and responses to public-facing items and high-profile projects. Acts as a liaison to the Communications and Public Information office. Coordinates with project managers in reviewing and preparing comment responses to ensure a consistent message is delivered.

Serves as the Consultant Project Management’s Project Suite Enterprise Edition (PSEE) champion and as liaison to the District’s PSEE champion in all matters related to PSEE. Provide assistance to users when problems and/or concerns with the PSEE application arise and provide feedback to the development teams regarding these issues. Coordinate, develop and present PSEE training material to PSEE users in Consultant Project Management on current and new procedures and tools as needed.

Conducts training, performs data retrieval, management and support services for informational, reporting and programming management systems including Financial Management (FM) reports, Priority Projects Programming Process (4P), Roll Forward, Certified Forward, and other program management tools as identified.

Creates and maintains reports from databases for the Design Office, on a monthly basis or as needed. Performs quality assurance reviews of reports and modify the reports as needed. Prepares as needed reports to determine Design’s progress in accomplishing commitments and performance measuring targets.

Serves as backup for Consultant Project Management’s Automated Access Request Form (AARF) coordinator and Design’s Electronic Review Comments (ERC) coordinator.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Knowledge of the concepts, terminology, principles and analytical techniques of the engineering specialty area of scheduling and project management; structuring and classifying information.  Skilled in Microsoft Office products, Microsoft structure querying language, SharePoint, Access, and Exchange; using engineering software, identifying the nature of problems; developing presentation and training materials; presentation techniques and public speaking; the organization and coordination of work assignments.  Ability to evaluate engineering processes and to solve problems relating to scheduling of engineering processes; communicate engineering information effectively; verbally and in writing; establish and maintain effective working relationships with others; develop, implement and maintain web applications, websites, web pages and databases; perform trend analysis of processes and/or systems; conduct research and independently utilize problem solving techniques.

OTHER JOB RELATED REQUIREMENTS: Due to the nature of this position, incumbent must respond to emergencies.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: High school diploma or its equivalent and four years of continuous employment experience; or three years of higher education with a cumulative of 72 semester hours or 108 quarter hours.

As a CANDIDATE, you may be required to provide documentation (i.e. HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR EQUIVALENCY, college transcripts, ETC.) to verify meeting these Minimum Qualifications.

THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION VALUES THE SERVICE VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE GIVEN TO OUR COUNTRY AND SUPPORTS THE HIRING OF RETURNING SERVICE MEMBERS AND MILITARY SPOUSES.  If you are a preference-eligible applicant who receives notice of a hiring decision and believe that you were not afforded employment preference in accordance with applicable Florida law and regulation, you may file a written complaint within 60 calendar days from the date you receive the notice, requesting an investigation to the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Division of Benefits and Assistance, 9500 Bay Pines Boulevard, Room 214, St. Petersburg, Florida 33708.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE.  Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply.  Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.  Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code.  Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here.  All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.