The $1.6 billion North Tarrant Express 35W project spans 10.1 miles from I-30 in downtown Fort Worth to just south of the North Tarrant Parkway. The project is operated and maintained by a Cintra-led consortium. This project has improved mobility by adding additional road capacity through a combination of general highway lanes and continuous frontage roads, along with tolled express lanes that use variable pricing to keep traffic moving.
What makes us different? Our people come first. We want every single employee to develop both professionally and personally. With a strong focus on growth potential, we look to our internal employees as potential candidates for both national and international opportunities. We aim to achieve greatness by promoting from within every chance we get. We work hard and play hard and strive every day for success and achievement. With a diverse group of professionals working in a fast-paced environment, we achieve milestones constantly. And if that weren't enough, we also offer our employees highly competitive insurance benefits, Paid Time Off, and a matching 401(k) program.
Job Description:
The Implementation Specialist role is crucial to the success of roadway technology systems design through operation and maintenance on tolling projects in accordance with all requirements outlined in the Comprehensive Development Agreement (CDA). This role is to ensure proper design through operations handover of assigned projects are successfully completed by coordinating internal groups and driving contract suppliers to fulfill contractual obligations and deliverables to completion on schedule, within budget, and within design requirements.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Serve as project coordinator to Field Systems Implementation tolling projects. Tasks include - but are not limited to - answering project questions about design functionality, defining, maintaining and enforcing the project plan; defining, maintaining, and enforcing action items for project completion of both programs and projects; managing regularly scheduled meetings with the project team during design planning through handover to field operations. and train users on core features and functionality of systems.
Responsible for inventory control for all Field Systems Inventory by ensuring procedures are followed and the inventory management system is always fully utilized and accurate.
Analyze requests for design enhancements or customizations; gather information and present information for business analysis and recommendations.
Act as escalation point to internal groups and external suppliers to resolve issues and respond to project requests in a professional manner
Provide assistance to support department staff in areas where they are not able to assist the user.
Responsible for identifying, tracking, and escalating system/project process, status, and risks. Reviews recommendations for technical solutions with Implementation Manager, Network Architect, Technical Specialist, Field Operations, and Business Analysts.
Participate in integration and testing phases with multiple system integrators and stakeholders to ensure the field systems roadway equipment changes meet performance specifications.
Coordinate implementation of all system enhancements and modifications as necessary during operations and maintenance phase.
Identify the need for, develop, evaluate, and negotiate change order requests to optimize the efficiency and costs of the overall project as reviewed and agreed with Implementation Manager or Field Systems Director.
Review existing technical and legal project framework and participate as an active stakeholder in the development and approval of Concept of Operations (ConOps).
Coordination of different contractors for the design, development and implementation of the Roadside Systems (both Toll Collection and Intelligent Transportation Systems) for the NTE, LBJ and NTE 35W projects within the milestone dates as per the project schedule.
Review and provide feedback to the roadside design and implementation team, in order to make sure that all software and hardware requirements produced as part of the design, support the operations and CDA requirements.
Circulate, evaluate, review and approve the documentation produced by the contractors and technical consultants in order to ensure they meet or exceed all project requirements including Comprehensive Agreement Development (CDA) requirements.
Achieve, during the implementation phase, proper coordination with the civil works contractor, in order to solve all possible issues in a fast and efficient manner.
Coordinate all needed Change Requests (CRs) within the Field Level Systems Integrator Contract and follow the process from their approval to its execution/ implementation
Understand and act on project concerns or questions.
Analyze information to determine next steps.
Ability to absorb and retain information quickly and present ideas in user-friendly language.
Build rapport and elicit problem details from project team and stakeholders.
Perform post-resolution follow up to ensure completeness of implementation solutions.
Evaluate documented resolutions and analyze trends for ways to prevent future problems.
Develop help sheets and knowledge base documents for operations handover and close of projects.
Coordination and signoff of design, implementation, testing, and handover of roadway technical moves, adds, and changes.
Maintain safe and healthy project environment by following Concessions standards and legal requirements.
Create and maintains best practices by establishing and enforcing organization standards
Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to fulfill those duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education & Experience:
Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
3 years of relevant prior experience.
Experience with hands-on implementation of telecommunications or other technological systems highly preferred.
Experience with project coordination of teams or field crews in a technology environment.
Professional Qualities:
Effectively coordinate and drive to completion Field Systems Implementation deliverables
Effectively coordinate tasks, deadlines and individuals through vendor contracts
Ability to interact with colleagues in a self-managed team structure
Must be able to multitask, problem solve, and implement innovative processes within a fast-paced environment
Computer Skills:
Strong knowledge of IT network communications and systems
Must be able to demonstrate computer proficiency, especially as to Microsoft Excel, Word and Power Point, MS Project or planning equivalent, and other PC based programs
Work Environment & Physical Demands:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include ability to adjust focus, as necessary to use a computer.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear
• The employee is frequently required to stand, walk and sit.
