At Gray-Bowen-Scott our staff is our most valuable asset. Our work environment encourages creativity, promotes continual professional and personal growth, and fosters passion for solving transportation-related challenges. We value the unique backgrounds and experiences everyone brings, and want all who join us to realize their full potential. We are looking for dedicated individuals committed to improving the communities we live and work in.
"We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust, and care for each other."
– Vala Afshar, Chief Digital Evangelist, Salesforce
What We Offer
Amazing
People
We care deeply about each other, our work, and our organization’s purpose. To celebrate our amazing team and to provide opportunities to connect socially with our teammates we host annual retreats, casual happy hours, and our holiday parties are legendary – think fine dining combined with the best-worst white elephant gift exchange around.
We've Got
You Covered
Our goal is to enable and support our teammates to realize their full potential. We offer competitive pay, robust health care options, and a generous retirement plan to support our team’s health and financial future.
Live Your
Best Life
We believe that striking a balance between career and personal life helps foster greater control and ownership over our own lives. We provide options for alternative work schedules and offer generous PTO so we can engage in personal interests, family and leisure activities and come to work refreshed and motivated.
Current Job Opportunities
Gray-Bowen-Scott is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
Gray-Bowen-Scott participates in E-Verify.
Job Listings
Job Title: Senior Project Manager (Transportation Infrastructure Projects)
Location: SF Bay Area, Remote or Hybrid (Office located in Walnut Creek, CA)
Salary Range: $195,000 - $250,000
Do you enjoy leading teams in identifying and implementing solutions to unique problems, delivering projects by overcoming challenges that baffled others, and leaving your client organizations stronger for having worked with you and your team? We do. We enjoy working with our clients to help them get their projects across the finish line, addressing political, organizational, financial, environmental, engineering, and construction challenges. Collaborative leadership is the key to our success because it produces fantastic team outcomes that build trust and long-lasting client partnerships. If you want to multiply these successes and relationships, then come join our team.
As our Senior Project Manager, you will play a critical role and be responsible for successfully proposing, planning, executing, and completing complex infrastructure and transportation projects. As a strategic thinker with strong leadership skills you will form and lead both proposal and project teams; manage contracts, budgets, schedules, and risks; and ensure client satisfaction. You will oversee the full life cycle of projects, from proposal and contract establishment to initial studies, environmental clearance, final design, and construction, ensuring high-quality work and profitable project delivery. You will lend strength to client teams through strategic thinking, collaboration, and communication.
To be successful in this role, you will have a strong background in successful project delivery, working directly with clients and project stakeholders, as well as familiarity with Caltrans project delivery procedures. Prior work with MTC, CCTA, SMCTA, or similar local jurisdictions is beneficial.
What this opportunity entails
- Understanding the client’s vision and critical concerns of their project.
- Leading multi-organizational, cross-functional project teams, fostering collaboration and innovation through the full life-cycle of projects.
- Developing and executing comprehensive project plans, including scope definition, resource allocation, cost monitoring, risk management, and schedule control.
- Estimating proposed work, including labor and consultant costs.
- Securing the resources needed by teams to complete the projects.
- Identifying risks to successful delivery; develop and implement mitigation strategies.
- Monitoring expenditures against the budget and progress against the baseline schedule for the client.
- Leading team meetings and delegating work to team members.
- Providing regular updates to the Principal-in-Charge and enlisting their assistance as needed.
- Communicating effectively and regularly at all levels of client organizations, ensuring they are never surprised by project news.
- Managing client contacts and relationships effectively.
- Writing proposals, making presentations, and developing scopes of work with corresponding estimates.
- Winning and contributing significantly to winning new work.
What you need to be successful:
- Registered P.E. in the State of California.
- 10 or more years of experience in leading the delivery of infrastructure projects.
- Must be able to attend local meetings and visit job sites in the San Francisco Bay Area (anticipated to be four days per month, subject to change depending on client needs).
- Knowledge and experience with the full life-cycle of transportation infrastructure projects from studies through construction.
- Familiarity with Caltrans project delivery procedures (or equivalent from another state’s DOT agency).
- Ability to effectively communicate at all levels of an organization.
- Demonstrated ability to manage staff and direct resources to effectively deliver projects while growing the capability of team members.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and deliver high-quality work and projects profitably.
- Demonstrated ability to estimate proposed work, including labor and consultant costs.
- Track record of successful team leadership, including a number of former staff who have benefited from your leadership and developed into effective leaders in their own right.
- Ability to learn and grow through the process of leading others.
- Knowledge of MTC delivery policy, preferred.
If you meet the above qualifications and are looking for an exciting opportunity to lead and manage projects, we encourage you to apply.
If this opportunity interests you, please contact erika@graybowenscott.com for more information or anybody you already know at GBS.
Job Title: Project Manager (Transportation Infrastructure Projects)
Company: Gray-Bowen-Scott (GBS)
Location: SF Bay Area Remote or Hybrid (Office located in Walnut Creek, CA)
Salary Range: $154,000 - $215,000
Do you enjoy leading teams in identifying and implementing solutions to unique problems, delivering projects by overcoming challenges that baffled others, and leaving your client organizations stronger for having worked with you and your team? We do. We enjoy working with our clients to help them get their projects across the finish line, addressing political, organizational, financial, environmental, engineering, and construction challenges. Collaborative leadership is the key to our success because it produces fantastic team outcomes that build trust and long-lasting client partnerships. If you want to multiply these successes and relationships, then come join our team.
As our Project Manager you will play a critical role and be responsible for successfully planning, executing, and completing complex infrastructure and transportation projects. As a strategic thinker with strong leadership skills you will form and lead project teams; manage contracts, budgets, schedules, and risks; and ensure client satisfaction. You will oversee the full life cycle of projects, from initial studies through final design to construction close out, ensuring high-quality work and profitable project delivery. You will lend strength to client teams, through strategic thinking, collaboration, and communication.
To be successful in this role, you will have a strong background in successful project delivery, working directly with clients and project stakeholders, as well as familiarity with Caltrans project delivery procedures. Prior work with MTC, CCTA, SMCTA, or similar jurisdictions is beneficial.
What this opportunity entails
- Understanding the client’s vision and critical concerns of their project.
- Leading multi-organizational, cross-functional project teams, fostering collaboration and innovation through the full life-cycle of projects.
- Developing and executing comprehensive project plans, including scope definition, resource allocation, and project controls.
- Writing proposals, making presentations, and developing scopes of work.
- Estimating proposed work, including labor and consultant costs.
- Securing the resources needed by teams to complete the projects.
- Identifying risks to successful delivery and developing mitigation strategies.
- Monitoring expenditures against the budget and progress against the baseline schedule for the client.
- Leading team meetings and delegating work to team members.
- Providing regular updates to the Principal-in-Charge or Senior Project Manager and enlisting their assistance as needed.
- Communicating effectively and regularly at all levels of client organizations, ensuring they are never surprised by project news.
- Managing client contacts and relationships effectively.
What you need to be successful
- 8 or more years of experience in delivering infrastructure projects, preferably highway infrastructure projects.
- Must be able to attend local meetings and visit job sites in the San Francisco Bay Area without excessive travel.
- Knowledge and experience with the full life cycle of projects from studies through construction.
- Familiarity with Caltrans project delivery procedures (or equivalent).
- Ability to effectively communicate at all levels of an organization.
- Demonstrated ability to manage staff and direct resources to effectively deliver projects while growing the capability of team members.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and deliver high-quality work and projects profitably.
- Ability to learn and grow through the process of leading others.
- Track record of successful team leadership.
- Experience writing proposals, making presentations, and writing scopes of work.
- Demonstrated ability to estimate proposed work, including labor and consultant costs.
- Knowledge of MTC delivery policy, preferred.
- Registered P.E. in the State of California, preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or related discipline, preferred.
If you meet the above qualifications and are looking for an exciting opportunity to lead and manage projects, we encourage you to apply.
Project Controls Manager (Transportation Infrastructure Projects)
Company: Gray-Bowen-Scott (GBS)
Location: SF Bay Area Remote or Hybrid (Office located in Walnut Creek, CA)
Salary Range: $154,000 - $215,000
Do you love solving puzzles and does the challenge of conquering budget and scheduling conflicts motivate and energize you? Do you enjoy identifying potential project risks and developing solutions to problems while they’re still small? Do you get satisfaction from working with clients to get their projects across the finish line and leaving them stronger due to your efforts? We do.
As our Project Controls Manager, you will fortify our dynamic project management team in delivering transportation-related projects and programs. You will be responsible for establishing efficient and effective processes to resolve issues to keep multiple construction projects on track. You will develop and maintain project cost estimates and risk registers, implement change management processes, and manage detailed project schedules and budgets.
To be successful in this role, you will have a strong background in project controls for large infrastructure/construction projects.
What this opportunity entails
- Project Initiation
- Define project scope and delivery approach
- Create issue resolution and change management procedures
- Establish baseline complete cost estimate, including assessment of escalation and risk contingency
- Establish baseline high-level project schedule with assumptions
- Identify reporting requirements and frequency
- Create baseline risk register, including mitigation strategies and responsible parties
- Cost Monitoring and Fund Management:
- Compile cost estimate documentation and summarize costs
- Check calculations to confirm accuracy
- Monitor contract costs against budgets
- Review and provide oversight of budgets and funding sources
- Maintain Financial Plan
- Scheduling:
- Understand the dependencies and interrelationships between different activities
- Organize and coordinate project tasks
- Determine when and how project resources will be used
- Analyze what events impact the project schedule
- Monitor progress of the work
- Communication and reporting
- Work directly for a project manager, keeping them aware of contract, cost and scheduling changes
- Identify any issues or risks that will impact scope, schedule or budget
- Prepare reports about the project in consultation with the Project Manager
- Notify project team members of meetings, document requirements
- Perform needed document control work
What you need to be successful
- Experience with financial reporting, cost analysis, scope control, trending, and reporting
- Experience with earned value analysis, cash flow, and project status reports
- Experience with creating and managing project schedules
- Experience with contract administration, including change management
- Confidence in your ability to comprehend and convey detailed financial data
- Attention to detail
- Ability to change priorities quickly and confront issues directly
- Comfortable interfacing with various individuals, including project managers, other team members, clients, and elected officials
- Leadership skills, including team development, conflict resolution, and proactive decision making
- Must be able to attend local meetings and visit job sites in the San Francisco Bay Area without excessive travel.
- Experience with e-Builder and/or other project/contract management software, highly desirable
- Experience with large-scale construction projects, preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferred
If you meet the above qualifications and are looking for an exciting opportunity to lead and manage projects, we encourage you to apply.
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