Senior Project Manager - Water/Wastewater

About the role

An opportunity exists within Stantec's Water Sector for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join and lead our team in Memphis, Tennessee.

Responsibilities

• Working effectively with all project team members, including the client, project manager, project technical leads and junior staff.
• Develop long-lasting partnerships with our clients in the Memphis market, maintain positive client relationships, and understand our client's needs to facilitate full-service offerings.
• Identifying and pre-positioning for opportunities in the Memphis Water market.
• Engaging and bringing Stantec technical leadership to interface with local clients.
• Leading and assisting in developing project scope, budgets, and design for various sized projects, leading marketing and business development professionals in positioning for potential projects, writing proposals, participating in client interviews, and supporting negotiations for project contracts.
• Coinciding with engineers and technical staff to ensure that the projects' needs are met in a timely and effective manner.
• Maintaining and enhancing our reputation with clients, approval agencies, and industry professionals as an outstanding service provider.
• Managing project budgets, staff allocation for projects, and preparing and reviewing invoices prior to issuance to the client.
• Growing internal and external networks to enhance Stantec’s reputation in the Memphis market and identifying additional talent to join our team.
• Talent recruitment and development.
• Identifying and recruiting additional potential team members to build Stantec’s local Memphis Water team, while working with our established regional Water network of practitioners.
• Following established processes for obtaining necessary project approvals from various agencies.
• Preparing or leading detailed design calculations, developing construction drawings and specifications, and overseeing design implementation.
• Writing or leading technical reports and design briefs to document analyses.
• 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.
• Leading and involvement in related professional societies, including preparation and presentation of papers at professional society conferences and seminars.
• Mentoring junior staff and supervising direct reports.
• Supporting and ensuring implementation of Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) Policies, Procedures, Standards and Guidelines in the execution of all work and coordinating 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 local, 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.
• Knowledge of wastewater treatment, water treatment, water distribution and wastewater collection systems.
• Strong presentation and interview skills.
• Ability 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

• Technical Writing
• Organizational Skills
• Communication Skills
• Team Player
• Problem Solving
• Client Relationship Management
• Project Management
• Technical Leadership
• Proposal Writing
• Technical Reports
• Design Implementation
• Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) Policies
• Professional Societies Engagement
• Talent Recruitment and Development
• Travel

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.