Project Manager (Industrial Water/Wastewater Design)

About the role

Brown and Caldwell is seeking a Project Manager with experience managing and executing industrial water and wastewater design projects in the Private Sector Business Unit. In this role, you will utilize design and project management expertise to deliver high-quality design projects within budget and on schedule. Specific work may include managing facility planning, design, construction engineering, and other tasks on current and future projects.

The Project Manager will lead the planning, scheduling, and delivery of complex design projects for industrial water and wastewater systems, developing and executing detailed project plans that address quality management, schedule and milestones, resource allocation, and budget. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to monitor progress, identify risks or potential delays, and implement corrective actions to keep projects on track. Success in this position requires familiarity with design in the industrial water industry.

This role collaborates with the Private Sector Business Unit Portfolio Design Manager, Portfolio Design Leads, and Chief Engineer to lead the execution of best delivery practices and recommended design approaches for industrial clients. Client service, support for marketing, and proposals are also included.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include the following for delivering day-to-day operations for mid-sized to large-scale projects:

• Project team leadership expectations:
  • Set direction: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets, and success factors. Provide clarity on objectives, decision-making, schedules, budgets, and client success factors.
  • Communicate: Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
  • Support Team Motivation: Empower team members, resolve conflicts, provide feedback, and celebrate success.
  • Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
  • Create a safe environment: Support an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
  • Embrace thought and experience diversity: Foster an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and perspectives are heard, respected, and considered.
  • Develop team members: Contribute to continuous learning, skills development, and mentoring.
• Execution of BC’s project delivery requirements:
  • Scope: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Develop clear assumptions, limitations, and realistic expectations for delivering quality work.
  • Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules for timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist in implementing schedule delay mitigation measures.
  • Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule. Manage the budget to meet financial plans.
  • Quality Management: Create, implement, and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, and incorporate standards and quality review processes.
  • Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks. Prepare scope and budget for changes, and gain client endorsement and approval to minimize financial and execution risk.
  • Risk Management: Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and perform ongoing risk monitoring. Escalate risks, collaborate on mitigation strategies, monetize risks, and update the risk profile throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements. Lead the development and implementation of health and safety plans per project-specific requirements.
  • Manage external resources: Including third parties/vendors to deliver successfully on their contracted scope, quality, and budget.
• Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics:
  • Lead achievement of project goals related to scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
  • Monitor profitability through routine earned value analysis, compliance, business revenue forecasting, and timely invoicing/collections.
• Client Service and Sales/Marketing Support:
  • 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.
• May provide mentorship, guidance, support, and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills.

Requirements

• Comprehensive knowledge of project management tools and techniques.
• Proven ability in project planning and management, including budget, risk, contract, change, and quality management, and safety leadership.
• Advanced understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques, and processes.
• Comprehensive understanding of contract management and client service.
• Strong business acumen and ability to align project outcomes with business goals.
• Excellent client service skills and ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
• Proven team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships.
• Proven ability to identify and cultivate opportunities with existing clients.

Qualifications

• Typically, a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience managing mid-size to large projects with progressively increasing responsibility.
• Competency in development and monitoring of moderate project schedules.
• Competency in development and monitoring of moderate project budgets.
• Competency in Risk Management.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management, and contract management of mid-size projects.
• Previous experience applying specialized knowledge in project management to deliver solutions for clients.
• A bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, business administration, or equivalent relevant experience is required.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Strong ability in design process leadership to achieve project goals.
• Experience working on private sector water, wastewater, or infrastructure design.
• Professional Engineer certification.

Pay

The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may vary depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• Location A: $117,000 - $159,000
• Location B: $128,000 - $175,000
• Location C: $140,000 - $191,000

View which BC location applies to you here.

Benefits

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Short and long-term disability, life insurance.
• 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.

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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. For more than 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice—for our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and for our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation.

Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com.

This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.