Project Manager/Senior Project Manager (water/wastewater engineering)

Responsibilities

• Project team leadership expectations:
• Set direction: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors.
• Communicate: Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
• Support Team Motivation: Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating success.
• Create a safe environment: Support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
• Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
• Develop team members: Support team development by contributing 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.
• Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide for timely resource allocation and delivery.
• Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule.
• Quality Management: Create, implement and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality review processes.
• Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks.
• Risk Management: Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle.
• Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety.
• Manage external resources: Including third parties/vendors to deliver successfully on their contracted scope, quality, budget and schedule.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience typically, a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience managing mid-size to large projects with progressively increasing responsibility.
• Specifically: 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 the solutions for clients.