Senior Project Manager - Water Treatment

About the role

An opportunity exists within Stantec's Water Sector for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team in Atlanta, GA.

Responsibilities

• Working effectively with all project team members, including the client, project manager, and junior staff.
• Coinciding with engineers and technical staff to ensure that the projects' needs are met in a timely and effective manner.
• Preparing task order proposals for new projects.
• Managing project budgets, staff allocation for projects, and preparing and reviewing invoices prior to issuance to the client.
• Following established processes for obtaining necessary project approvals from various agencies.
• Writing technical reports and design briefs to document analyses.
• Taking responsibility for the quality of your written, technical and graphic work.
• Planning, organizing, and managing the production of project deliverables to ensure on time delivery, technical quality and within budget – includes coordinating work efforts and the preparation of deliverables reports, client stewardship and coordinating with other disciplines on multi-discipline projects.
• Executing multiple concurrent projects efficiently.
• Mentoring junior staff and supervising direct reports.
• Developing long-lasting partnerships with our clients, maintaining positive client relationships, and understanding our client's needs to facilitate full-service offerings.
• Led leadership and involvement in related professional societies, including preparation and presentation of papers at professional society conferences and seminars.
• Talent recruitment and development.
• Support and ensure implementation of Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) Policies, Procedures, Standards and Guidelines in the execution of all work and coordinate with HSSE professionals during the execution of all phases of project planning and implementation.
• Other duties or responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Strong oral and written communication skills, and be customer focused to understand and appropriately respond to client’s business needs.
• Demonstrate effective resource planning, results delivery, and staying current with relevant technology and innovation.
• Strong understanding of federal and state regulations and permitting requirements including the required supporting documentation.
• Prominent experience managing teams and supervising direct reports.
• Knowledge of documents related to requests for proposals, invitations for bid, and tendering offers.
• Project and task management experience with strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrated team player with the ability to work independently and take initiative.
• Excellent technical writing, organizational, and communications skills.
• Efficient project management/technical leadership of assigned tasks on multiple concurrent projects.
• Understand client expectations, budgeting, proposal writing, and producing high quality deliverables.
• Effective communicator and able to work on and lead/build teams.
• Strong presentation and interview skills.
• Able to solve complex problems using sound professional judgement, creativity, and innovation.
• Requisite knowledge, interpretation, and application of design and construction codes.
• Ability to travel as needed to fill role responsibilities.

Skills

• Strong understanding of federal and state regulations and permitting requirements including the required supporting documentation.
• Proven ability to maintain and establish effective working relationships.
• Proven experience managing teams and supervising direct reports.
• Knowledge of documents related to requests for proposals, invitations for bid, and tendering offers.
• Project and task management experience with strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrated team player with the ability to work independently and take initiative.
• Excellent technical writing, organizational, and communications skills.
• Efficient project management/technical leadership of assigned tasks on multiple concurrent projects.
• Understand client expectations, budgeting, proposal writing, and producing high quality deliverables.
• Effective communicator and able to work on and lead/build teams.
• Strong presentation and interview skills.
• Able to solve complex problems using sound professional judgement, creativity, and innovation.
• Requisite knowledge, interpretation, and application of design and construction codes.

Benefits

Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.