Project Manager - Water/Wastewater Services

CDM Smith is an employee-owned engineering and construction firm committed to providing a challenging, progressive, and inclusive work environment that fosters personal leadership, career growth, and development. The company values diverse perspectives and supports employees with the tools and resources to deliver world-class solutions.

Responsibilities

• Creates project definitions, schedules, budgets, and objectives for projects.
• Prepares detailed statements of work with associated work breakdown structures and gains concurrence and approval from internal and external stakeholders regarding various project aspects.
• Assesses potential project risk and outlines risk mitigation solutions.
• Ensures adherence to company and project management policies, procedures, and practices.
• Manages project costs and is responsible for ensuring profitability.
• Identifies, quantifies, and communicates residual risk (time and cost).
• Creates and reviews timely client billings with internal billing support.
• Responsible for ensuring timely client payment and follows up on outstanding client invoices to obtain payment.
• Reviews and approves subcontractor/vendor invoices to ensure timely payment to outside resources.
• Performs ongoing review of project status.
• On an ongoing basis, monitors project risks; identifies possible risks and recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions; escalates as appropriate.
• Manages project change using change management protocols; determines appropriate changes or alternate paths based upon performance and metrics.
• Works in conjunction with team members and stakeholders to manage changes to requirements and schedule of the project.
• Ensures proper review of project scope by safety managers and proper implementation of safety plans.
• Provides timely response to audit corrective actions identified by external or internal audits.
• Plans and conducts work requiring judgment in the independent evaluation, selection, and application of standard engineering or construction techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Provides guidance to drafters/designers, engineers, craft workers, other project team members, contractors, or subcontractors.
• Develops and implements project resource plan and manages the staffing of assigned projects.
• Determines and coordinates the proper staffing within the project including identification of outside resources needed (subs/vendors) and ensures procurement processes are followed.
• Clearly communicates project deadlines, assignments, and objectives to project team members.
• Assigns work and provides direction to project staff with regard to timeliness and completion of project objectives.
• Coaches project staff and provides feedback to staff and to project staff's supervisors on project performance; escalates any performance issues to appropriate management and human resources.
• Builds, maintains, and manages strong client relationships.
• Ensures client satisfaction by delivering quality, on-time project outcomes as a result of good planning and organizational skills; manages client expectations.
• Performs other duties as required.

Skills

• Experience working with project management methodology including budget development, project planning, control and assurance methodologies, project management software, and finance and accounting concepts and practices.
• Possesses in-depth knowledge of project goals, drivers, strategies, risks, and opportunities.
• Demonstrates good communications skills, both verbal and written.
• Possesses ability to interact with varying levels of staff, as well as vendors.
• Good interpersonal and presentation skills for interacting with team members and clients.
• Ability to deal with many people and process a large volume of requests as necessary.
• Good personal computer skills including proficiency in MS Word and Excel.
• Demonstrates good organizational skills to balance and prioritize work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent additional directly related experience in lieu of a degree).
• 4 years of related experience.
• PMP (PMI), CCM, or DBIA certification required (within 12 months of hire or promotion onto the Approved Project Manager list).
• Domestic and/or international travel may be required; frequency contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and essential functions of the position, varying with workload and project demands.

Travel

20% – 40% travel required.

Pay

Pay range: $91,478 – $160,118 per year (USD). This range is a good-faith estimate for the geographic location assigned to the position; actual salary is determined by role, function, responsibilities, relevant experience, skills, required certifications, and education/training. All bonuses are discretionary and may or may not apply to this position.

Visa Sponsorship

The company will support sponsorship (e.g., H-1B or TN visas) for this position.