Water Resources Project Manager

This role involves planning, executing, and overseeing projects to ensure they are completed on time, within budget, while meeting quality standards and health and safety requirements. The position works closely with cross-functional teams to define project scope, set objectives, allocate resources, and develop detailed project plans. Responsibilities include monitoring progress, managing risks and change, resolving challenges, and communicating with stakeholders to provide regular updates. The role manages moderately complex projects, typically small to mid-size, and is expected to independently deliver results with minimal supervision while progressively increasing revenue responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Project team leadership expectations:
  • Set direction: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets, and success factors. Assist the team by providing clarity on assignment objectives, decision-making, schedules, budgets, and client success factors.
  • Communicate: Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
  • Support Team Motivation: Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback, and celebrating success.
  • Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
  • Create a safe environment: Support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
  • Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and perspectives are heard, respected, and considered.
  • Develop project team members: Contribute to continuous learning, skills development, and mentoring.
• Execution of project delivery requirements:
  • Scope: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Develop clear assumptions, limitations, and realistic expectations for delivering quality work.
  • Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules for timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist in implementing schedule delay mitigation measures.
  • Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule. Manage the budget to meet planned project performance metrics.
  • Quality Management: Create, implement, and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, and incorporate standards and review processes.
  • Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks. Collaborate with the project team to prepare scope and budget for change orders and gain client approval to minimize financial and execution risk.
  • Risk Management: Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and perform ongoing risk monitoring. Escalate risks, collaborate on mitigation strategies, monetize risks, and update the project risk profile throughout its lifecycle.
  • Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow company policy and client requirements. Lead the development and implementation of health and safety plans per project-specific requirements.
  • Manage external resources: Oversee third parties/vendors to ensure successful delivery of contracted scope, quality, budget, and schedule.
• Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics: Lead achievement of project goals related to scope, schedule, budget, and quality. Monitor profitability through earned value analysis, compliance, business revenue forecasting, and timely invoicing/collections.
• Client Service and Sales/Marketing Support and Engagement: Build successful client relationships while collaborating with client service managers and project teams to assess satisfaction. Monitor and share clients’ critical success factors for project success and satisfaction. Adapt and execute additional assignments based on evolving needs.
• Mentorship: Provide mentorship, guidance, support, and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow in their roles.

Requirements

• Solid knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including project planning, budget management, and risk management.
• Strong budget, quality, and change management skills, with an understanding of related tools, techniques, and processes.
• Understanding of contract management and client service.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of financial performance, revenue generation, and how individual projects fit into larger organizational goals.
• Proficient communication, client service, and engagement skills.
• Proficient team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience successfully managing projects of increasing complexity.
• Competency in development and monitoring of project schedules and budgets.
• Experience with risk management concepts.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management, and contract management of small to mid-size projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, business administration, or equivalent relevant experience.

Pay

The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may vary depending on skills, experience, and education. For Location A: $95,000 - $129,000.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package promoting employee health, performance, and success, including:
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Short and long-term disability, life insurance, and an employee assistance program.
  • Paid time off, parental leave, and paid holidays.
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match.
  • Performance-based bonus eligibility.
  • Employee referral bonuses.
  • Tuition reimbursement.
  • Pet insurance and long-term care insurance.

About the Company

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction services firm with 50 offices and over 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 75 years, the company has created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. Brown and Caldwell strives to be the company of choice for clients and employees, fostering a commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com.