Planning Project Manager

About the role

This position is in HDR’s Southern California Region, with flexibility in office location: Irvine, Los Angeles or San Diego. The position involves all aspects of project management for small to large-sized planning projects in support of water and wastewater system facility improvements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the project manager for water supply planning projects, maintaining task/project budgets and schedules, and mentoring junior-level staff.
• Establish strong, productive, collaborative relationships.
• Work closely with client development leads, other project managers, other internal staff and client staff to define scopes of work, resources requirements, budgets, schedules and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain a backlog of planning project work.
• Prepare and periodically review/update project execution plans.
• Communicate progress effectively with team members and senior management.
• Provide effective leadership of the project team.
• Supervise project engineers/scientists and subcontractors in the successful delivery of technical projects.
• Manage financial aspects of project contracts to protect HDR’s interests and simultaneously maintain good relationships with the client.
• Ensure that all project work is completed on time and within budget, with a focus on meeting contract scope and terms and conditions.
• Monitor significant deviations/inconsistencies and project progress and take corrective action when required.
• Manage planning and preliminary design efforts for projects.
• Lead planning/pre-design efforts and coordinate with other project managers, client staff, and stakeholders, including written reports, meetings, and presentations.
• Communicate efforts with client counterparts and ensure an ongoing positive relationship.
• Represent HDR in project meetings.
• Participate in or lead proposal preparation, presentations, contract negotiations, amendments, change notices, and contract claims.
• Understand and possess ability to communicate technical concepts to other staff and the client.
• Develop relationships with HDR clients to identify and develop new planning project opportunities.
• Identify, develop, and lead pursuit of new planning work.
• Lead proposal and interview efforts to win new work.
• Participate in regional and national conferences to promote HDR clients and projects.
• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication and negotiating skills.
• Consistently adhere to and enforce internal HDR processes and policies such as business and contracting rules.
• Perform additional assignments as requested by senior management.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering. Experience with water/wastewater planning projects preferred.
• Proven ability to write technical information using appropriate grammar, punctuation and spelling for concise reader-friendliness and clarity.
• Maintaining professional competency may require attending education classes and seminars, reading professional publications, and attending professional society meetings.
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering. 5 years of experience in project management, planning, engineering, and/or construction on capital improvement projects with a track record of successful delivery of projects on time and within budget.
• Excellent writing and communication skills are essential.
• Experience with CAD and GIS.
• PE licensure in the State of California or ability to obtain PE licensure within 6 months of hire. PE licensure in other states that the firm is actively practicing may also be considered.
• Candidates should be proficient using project control systems, problem solving, management and client relations.
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills, including team leadership, presentations, proposals, and managing client interactions.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to prioritize assignments and build strong client relationships.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Working knowledge of hydraulic modeling (InfoWater, WaterGEMS, InfoSWMM, InfoWorks CS, SewerGEMS) for planning and design highly desired.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines;
• This position may require out-of-office travel with occasional evening and overnight assignments;
• Must effectively communicate with all project team members;
• Proven ability to write technical information using appropriate grammar, punctuation and spelling for concise reader-friendliness and clarity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 7 years related experience
• A minimum of 2 years project management experience
• The ability to interact with various design teams
• Excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

Skills

• Project management
• Technical writing
• Client relations
• Proposal preparation
• Proposal and interview efforts
• Regional and national conference participation
• Communication (written and verbal)
• Team leadership
• Problem solving
• Financial management
• Technical concept communication
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