Project Manager - Colorado (water/wastewater)

Responsibilities

• Project team leadership expectations:
• Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors.
• Aid team by providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve.
• Establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
• Empower team members, resolve conflicts, provide feedback and celebrate success.
• Create a safe environment where ideas and creativity thrive.
• Embrace thought and experience diversity by considering diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives.
• Support project team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development, and mentoring.
• Execution of BC’s project delivery requirements:
• Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns.
• Develop clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
• Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide for timely resource allocation and delivery.
• Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures as needed.
• Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set projects up for financial success.
• Manage budget on project to meet planned project performance metrics.
• Create, implement and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality review processes.
• Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks.
• Identify and recommend change management, in collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the change order, and gain client endorsement and approval for the change to minimize financial and execution risk to BC.
• Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle. Identify and escalate risks, collaborate with teams to prepare mitigation strategies for each risk, monetization of each risk, and update the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a project.
• Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety. Lead development and implementation of health and safety plans per the project specific requirements.
• Manage external resources including third parties/vendors to deliver successfully on their contracted scope, quality, budget, and schedule.
• Lead achievement of project goals related to scope, schedule, budget and quality. Monitor profitability through routine earned value analysis and compliance, business revenue forecasting and timely invoicing/collections.
• Build successful relationships with Clients, while collaborating with client service managers and project teams to assess client satisfaction.
• Monitor and share clients' critical success factors for project success and client satisfaction.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.

Qualifications

• Solid knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including project planning, budget management and risk management.
• Strong budget, quality and change management skills.
• Understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
• Understanding of contract management and client service.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of financial performance and revenue generation.
• Experience with risk management concepts.
• Experience collaborating with cross functional teams.
• Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management, and contract management of small to mid-size projects.

Skills And Competencies

• Knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including project planning, budget management and risk management.
• Strong budget, quality and change management skills.
• Understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
• Understanding of contract management and client service.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of financial performance and revenue generation.
• Experience with risk management concepts.
• Experience collaborating with cross functional teams.
• Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management, and contract management of small to mid-size projects.

Benefits And Other Compensation

• We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance.

About Brown And Caldwell

• Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction services firm with 50 offices and over 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific.
• We strive to be the company of choice—to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation.