Project Manager – Land Development

Job Location: Houston, TX 77063
Type: Full Time

Founded in 2007, Ward Getz & Associates LLC (WGA) is a Texas-based professional consulting firm that has steadily grown in a competitive market by consistently delivering exceptional quality and service. Our success is rooted in the belief that creative design drives successful projects and that strong collaborative relationships with municipalities, permitting authorities, and local and state agencies lead to tangible results throughout the development process. Our diverse project experience spans industrial, commercial, large mixed-use developments, hospitality, healthcare, education, municipal infrastructure, and both multifamily and single-family residential projects. From preliminary feasibility studies to full-scale design, we are committed to providing value through innovative and cost-effective solutions tailored to each project's unique needs. With five established offices across Texas in Houston, The Woodlands, College Station, Austin, and San Antonio, and with remote team members located throughout the United States, WGA continues to expand its reach while maintaining a strong local presence.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams of engineers and other technical staff to successfully deliver single-family development projects.
• Be respectful of client timelines through effective coordination of project tasks, budgets, and schedules.
• Participate in the development of company design and production standards to continue excellence within our technical expertise.
• Be open to new ways of accomplishing goals.
• Seek guidance from other leaders; be open to suggestions in various aspects of project management.
• Apply diversified knowledge of principles/practices in broad areas of assignments.
• Make decisions independently on problems and methods.
• Engineering planning, analysis, design, estimating, contracting, project management, construction, and delivery phases for Land Development.
• Plan, schedule, conduct, or coordinate detailed phases of a major project.
• Select procedures and check complete reports and calculations.
• Develop understanding and follow WGA QA/QC procedures and understand basic business practice and laws related to area of practice.
• Build and maintain relationships between project teams and collaborate to ensure that technical, quality, cost, and client requirements are implemented.
• Coordinate with outside sub-consultants.
• Prepare a range of reports to communicate project information to team members, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Handle multiple simultaneous projects and work in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Represent WGA in client and industry-related conferences, organizations, and meetings.
• Develop trusting professional relationships with clients, public agency officials, and community leaders.
• Prepare proposals, scopes of work, and contract cost estimates; require an understanding of multi-disciplinary team coordination.
• Lead and mentor junior members of WGA to provide best-in-class service.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Civil, Environmental, or Water Resources Engineering.
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) designation in the State of Texas.
• ±5 years of experience in Civil design with a minimum of 2 years' experience managing a team and clients for the completion of single-family, residential projects from conception to completion, including estimating costs of technical tasks.
• Extensive knowledge of design and construction practices which, by passing on that knowledge to others, will aid in your success.
• Proven experience and willingness to identify new opportunities with existing clients as well as having the confidence and ability to develop new client partnerships.
• Proven ability to effectively and respectfully communicate, both oral and written skills, with all levels of employees.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain professional relationships with clients, public agency officials, and community leaders.