About the Role
Guidehouse's Capital Projects & Infrastructure team seeks professionals with backgrounds in engineering, construction, project delivery, and related fields to address complex challenges in infrastructure strategy and execution, focusing on transportation and transit capital programs. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of the capital project lifecycle, a proven record as an individual contributor, and be comfortable with ambiguity and client-facing interactions.
Responsibilities
- Develop road mapping and strategic plans for key business leaders to make informed investment decisions.
- Guidehouse’s Capital Projects & Infrastructure team is seeking professionals with backgrounds in engineering, construction, project delivery, and related fields who are looking to apply their technical expertise to address complex challenges that enable infrastructure strategy and execution, with a focus on transportation and transit capital programs (e.g., rail, BRT/LRT, facilities/stations, guideway, roadway, bridge, or other transportation infrastructure).
- Demonstrates proven thorough knowledge of the capital project lifecycle (planning through maintenance and operations), and a proven record of success in an individual contributor role for active capital projects.
- Supported or led one or more of the following areas: Project governance, e.g., organizational and process aspects (including boards/committees, interagency coordination, and third-party stakeholders common to DOT/transit programs)
- Risk management and analysis, e.g., risk register, quantitative (probabilistic) risk modeling, root cause analysis, issue management, prudency reviews (including service impacts, permitting/ROW/utility risks, and systems integration risks)
- Construction project management and controls, e.g., schedule control, cost control (budget, accruals, forecasts), earned value, change management (including work windows, safety in operating environments, and complex interfaces)
- Complex schedule analytics, e.g., critical path method (CPM), float, schedule compression/time-cost trade-off, change impacts (including staged construction and outage planning)
- Contract development and management, e.g., procurement processes, administration, scope control
- Performance metrics and project reporting (including dashboards aligned to capital delivery and operational readiness)
- Project technology, e.g., project and portfolio management, applications to quantify cause and effect of delays (including PMIS/document controls/scheduling toolsets typical in transit/transportation capital programs)
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
- Minimum of 3+ (THREE) years experience
- Experience directly leading client relationships and/or project teams
- Experience with federal, state, and local procurement regulations and requirements, including public-sector procurement practices common to DOT/transit agencies
- Engineering or technical expertise in project controls, project management technology, capital infrastructure, preferably within transportation/transit capital programs
- Experience drafting documents, memos, letters, and other formal communications to clients, including board-ready or stakeholder-facing materials
- The successful candidate must not be subject to employment restrictions from a former employer (such as a non-compete) that would prevent the candidate from performing the job responsibilities as described.
- Due to nature of client engagements, US Citizenship restrictions may apply
- No sponsorship is available for this position
Skills
- Engineering
- Construction
- Project delivery
- Infrastructure strategy
- Infrastructure execution
- Transportation capital programs
- Transit capital programs
- Capital project lifecycle
- Project governance
- Risk management
- Construction project management
- Project controls
- Schedule control
- Cost control
- Earned value
- Change management
- Schedule analytics
- Contract development
- Contract management
- Performance metrics
- Project reporting
- Project technology
- Project management
- Portfolio management
- PMIS
- Document controls
- Scheduling toolsets
- Client relationships
- Federal procurement regulations
- State procurement regulations
- Local procurement regulations
- Public-sector procurement practices
- Drafting documents
- Memos
- Letters
- Formal communications
- Board-ready materials
- Stakeholder-facing materials
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's Degree (MBA, MPP, MPA, etc.)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- AICP
- EIT
- PE
Salary/Compensations
- $98,000.00-$163,000.00
Benefits
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
- Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Basic Life & Supplemental Life
- Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Student Loan PayDown
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
- Skills Development & Certifications
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
- Mobility Stipend
About the Company
- Guidehouse is a global AI-led professional services firm delivering advisory, technology, and managed services to the commercial and government sectors. With an integrated business technology approach, Guidehouse drives efficiency and resilience in the healthcare, financial services, energy, infrastructure, and national security markets. Built to help clients across industries outwit complexity, the firm brings together approximately 18,000 professionals to achieve lasting impact and shape a meaningful future. guidehouse.com
Equal Opportunity
- Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
- Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
