Principal Project Mgr - Infrastructure Renewal - 90240891 - Washington

Principal Project Mgr - Infrastructure Renewal - Washington

The Principal Project Manager independently leads the planning, execution, and delivery of complex, large-scale initiatives with significant cost, schedule, and stakeholder impact. This role is accountable for end-to-end project performance, including scope, cost, risk, and schedule coordination, and serves as the primary point of integration across internal teams, external partners, and governing bodies.

Essential Functions:

• Plan, execute, and deliver complex, high-risk initiatives from initiation through closeout, ensuring alignment with approved objectives, budgets, schedules, and governance requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and integrate detailed project plans, schedules, cost forecasts, and performance metrics; monitor progress and implement corrective actions as required.
• Serve as the primary point of coordination with internal teams, external partners, and oversight entities, facilitating decision-making and maintaining alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, and changes, ensuring timely resolution, escalation, and transparent communication to stakeholders.
• Coordinate multiple project teams, vendors and assets to ensure timely and cost-effective sequencing and execution of critical path milestones across several inter-dependent projects.
• Apply advanced project management standards, tools, and best practices; provide guidance and informal mentorship to less-experienced project personnel and matrixed contributors.
• Establish Program Governance and Controls structures to enable effective escalation and decision-making processes.
• Cultivate collaborative partnership among stakeholders to enable scoping, financial and resource decisions.
• Develop, track and forecast annual budgets and operating plans to support the program.
• Provide performance reports and other relevant analytics on the program to stakeholders.
• Monitor and approve all budgeted program expenditures.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education, training and/or relevant experience.
• Plus 7 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Plus 9 years of relevant work experience.
• Graduate degree
• Transportation industry background
• Understanding of Federal Railroad Administration and NEC stakeholders, including state and local governments, commuter railroads and freight

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong project and/or program management skills
• Superb communication and stakeholder management skills with focus on collaboration, team building, and customer service
• Ability to read and interpret technical design drawings and specifications
• Comprehension of project scheduling concepts using critical path method
• Understanding of design development and general construction practices
• Ability to develop, review, and adjust project schedules and cost forecasts to align with short and long-term project goals.
• Aptitude to understand, interpret, and apply applicable laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, budgets, contracts, and labor/management agreements
• Ability to prioritize directed and self-directed project tasks to ensure on-time delivery of key project milestones
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, MS Project)
• Understanding of principles of project management, program development, implementation and administration for improvement and maintenance projects
• Ability to identify talented managers as well as motivate and support people across the organization to work collectively as a cohesive whole to produce superior results
• Knowledge of theories, principles, and practices of passenger railroad systems design, construction, operations, maintenance, safety, accident prevention, and emergency response (preferred but not required)
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills

Environmental Conditions/Physical Demands:

• Travel Requirements: Up to 25%
• Office environment and project field visits as required

The salary/hourly range is $113,200.00 $146,664.00. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. Depending on an employee's assigned worksite or location, Amtrak may consider a geo-pay differential to be applied to the employee's base salary. Amtrak may offer additional incentive and pay programs to recognize and reward our employees, including a short-term incentive bonus based upon factors such as individual and company performance that is commensurate with the level of the position.

Health and Wellbeing Financial and Retirement Work and Family Life Support Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance 401K with Employer Match Generous Paid Time Off Wellness Programs Railroad Retirement Benefits Paid Caregiving Days and Backup Care Health Savings Account Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Fertility and Family Building Benefits No-cost Personal Health Advocate Student Loan Assistance Adoption and Surrogacy Assistance Medical Plan Opt-out Credit Tuition and Education Reimbursement Paid Family Leave Life Insurance Rail Pass Privileges Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance Employee Assistance Program No-cost Financial Advisor Sessions Commuter and Flexible Spending Accounts