Senior Project Manager - Water/Wastewater

About the role

The successful candidate will be responsible for the hands-on management of exciting water industry projects through all phases of delivery. Specifically, responsibilities will include a variety of projects related to:

• Water infrastructure planning, design, implementation, and optimization
• Sewer collection, pumping, and storage
• Water resources planning and development
• Surface water supply
• Groundwater supply
• Challenged and/or reuse supply
• Water facilities planning, design, implementation, and optimization
• Drinking water treatment plants
• Wastewater treatment plants
• Advanced water treatment plants

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will vary in relative volume, and change over time, but will generally include:

• Business planning and development activities
• Client service management
• Pursuit planning
• Support proposal development efforts
• Scope, fee, and contract development services
• Program Owner’s Advisor (OA) services
• Oversee production of deliverables, including:
• Complete detailed design calculations, drawings, and specifications
• Scheduling, management and coordination of support disciplines and subconsultants
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement activities
• Support permitting approval with regulatory agencies
• Manage quality assurance and risk management
• Facilitate workshops with clients
• Transition to construction phase (both alternative delivery and design-bid-build)
• Contractor pre-qualification and bid evaluation
• Participate in facilitated teaming activities
• Technical review of submittals and RFIs
• Construction phase engineering support
• Scheduling, management and coordination of support disciplines and subconsultants
• Progress tracking and communications
• Transition to integration phase
• Manage owner training program
• Equipment, instrument, and device checkout and performance validation
• Control system and HMI integration
• Scheduling, management and coordination of support disciplines and subconsultants
• Contract closeout

Requirements

• 10 or more years of similar technical experience with no less than three years’ experience in project/team leadership
• Registered as a Professional Engineer (PE) or the ability to obtain within a year
• Previous experience in responsible charge of planning, design, and implementation of water facilities and infrastructure projects
• Strong understanding of the multi-disciplined practices (i.e. process, surveying, geotechnical, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control) required for the planning, design, and implementation of water facilities and infrastructure projects
• Strong communication skills
• Proficient with MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Project and Outlook

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering preferred
• ENV SP Certification or ability and willingness to obtain

Skills

• Display technical competency of water or wastewater engineering
• Develop and manage detailed project delivery assumption, scope of work, level of effort, and associated man-hour estimates
• Manage and delegate scope, budget, and schedule for a team of multi-disciplined (civil, process, structural, mechanical, electrical, and I&C) project engineers, design engineers, and CAD Technicians in the development of various Water Business Line projects
• Manage and delegate multiple projects concurrently
• Be responsible for time management and work product quality
• Keep accurate and up-to-date project accounting on all assigned projects
• Prepare and execute Quality Assurance and Quality Control Plans
• Lead internal and external project workshops
• Be an active learner responsible for continuing education and learning based on project needs, as well as overall needs of the team
• Construction management, excluding construction observation, for local projects

Benefits

• Company-paid professional memberships
• Company support for industry licenses and continuing education opportunities
• Comprehensive wellness program

Pay

Competitive salary packages

Schedule

Full-time position