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Rutgers University

Research Project Manager

🇺🇸 Piscataway, NJ

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $94K - $145K

💻 Project Management

🗓️ July 23rd, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is hiring a Research Project Manager for the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) within the School of Engineering. The role leads and oversees research projects in asset management, GIS, and visualization, plans and executes complex engineering research initiatives, manages project proposals, budgets, and deliverables, and acts as a subject matter expert and liaison among academia, industry, and government partners.

Highlights

  • Lead and oversee asset management, GIS, visualization, and asset-related research projects.
  • Plan, coordinate, and execute complex engineering research initiatives.
  • Manage proposal development, project timelines, budgets, resources, and deliverables.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in infrastructure asset management, inventory, assessment, visualization, and analytics for highway infrastructure within spatially enabled environments.
  • Principal or co-principal investigator for research related to transportation planning, smart structures, sensor technologies, and advanced materials.
  • Provide technical input on contracts and proposals and represent Rutgers at national and international forums.
  • Act as liaison among academia, industry, and government partners.
  • Proficient in Geographic Information Systems, especially ESRI ArcGIS platform, and enterprise asset management systems.
  • Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree and five years relevant experience in enterprise asset management, geospatial information technology, or spatially enabled environments.
  • Salary range: $94,492 to $144,715 annually, with a midpoint of $119,604.