Senior Project Manager

About the role

This isn't just a job, it's a chance to lead change, drive progress, and leave a lasting legacy. In the role of Senior Project Manager, we'll count on you to:

Responsibilities

• Direct and coordinate work of multidiscipline teams throughout the project’s lifecycle (from development and initiation to close-out)
• Responsible for all aspects of large complex planning and engineering projects with high degree of technical and political complexity, involving a large project team
• Produce and coordinate several projects concurrently.
• Establish and maintain client relations, and be involved with contractual, planning, and engineering meetings
• Responsible for quality and all deliverables to the client
• Responsible for client relations and serves as the primary point of contact
• Direct all work associated with the projects
• Responsible for the overall financial health of the projects
• Track financial aspects of projects, and coordinate and adjust work effort with team to ensure that work is completed within parameters of agreed-to budget and schedule
• Cook up and coordinate staffing and workload through entire project life cycle, and ensure completion of deliverables on schedule
• Cook up with the Accounting, Operational and Business leadership for periodic project reviews
• Implement quality assurance and quality control procedures
• Perform risk management and mitigation procedures
• Supervise large project teams and act as mentor
• Perform other duties as needed

Requirements

• Master’s degree
• PMP Certification
• California Professional Engineer (PE) license or Professional Geologist (PG) license
• Strong leadership skills with experience building a cohesive team culture and managing team members located in various locations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Comfortable facilitating teams and presenting to client and in a public setting
• Familiar with the various types of tools used to manage programs – Project Management Information System (PMIS), scheduling, cost control, document management, risk management, dashboard analytics, etc.
• Experience with water resources planning and management, XM Planning, water supply reliability studies, climate resiliency plans, or other related studies

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree, PMP Certification, California Professional Engineer (PE) license or Professional Geologist (PG) license, Strong leadership skills with experience building a cohesive team culture and managing team members located in various locations, Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Comfortable facilitating teams and presenting to client and in a public setting, Familiar with the various types of tools used to manage programs – Project Management Information System (PMIS), scheduling, cost control, document management, risk management, dashboard analytics, etc., Experience with water resources planning and management, XM Planning, water supply reliability studies, climate resiliency plans, or other related studies

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 10 years related experience
• A minimum of 5 years of project management experience
• Familiar with Microsoft Office, estimating and scheduling software, project management software
• Must have the ability to interact with various design teams, have excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

Benefits

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement.

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position is $142,142.00 - $203,060.00 annually depending upon skills, experience, education and geographical location.

Schedule

Full-time

Employee Status

Regular

Business Class

Water Supply Management

Job Posting

Jul 14, 2026

Stated Benefits

Stated benefits are for full-time regular positions.

Our Commitment

We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.hdrinc.com/equal-employment-opportunity-employer). We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.