Senior Drinking Water Project Manager

Brown and Caldwell (BC) is seeking a Senior Project Manager that is passionate about providing delivery leadership and team mentoring, leading pursuits, and serving as a technical resource on projects for our growing drinking water business. When you join our team, you will engage in water planning and design projects for some of the largest drinking water suppliers in the Northwest. Depending on the applicant skillset/interests, projects include PFAS planning and design, groundwater treatment, surface water treatment design, water system planning, and climate change resiliency planning. BC’s drinking water team focuses on delivering solutions that enhance the adaptability, reliability, and resilience of our clients’ water systems for lasting, positive impacts on our communities. BC is an employee-owned company and the right size where you can connect to technical and national leadership easily, and work on some of the most interesting projects in the water industry.

When you join BC, you will enjoy a unique and welcoming culture. You will find that we offer a collaborative and supportive environment, allowing you to do your best work. You will be trusted to do the right thing and given the flexibility to manage your own schedule to achieve project and career objectives. BC values include a focus on balancing life and work as a priority. The work we do is interesting, challenging, and wide-ranging in nature, and so is our client base. BC is an employee-owned company, 100% Environmental Engineering firm. BC is the right size where you can connect to technical and national leadership easily, and work on some of the most interesting projects in the water industry.

Hybrid work from one of our local offices in the Pacific Northwest region (Portland, Seattle, Tacoma or Boise) is allowed.

Detailed Description: 

In this role you will serve as a Senior Project Manager for a wide variety of water related projects within our Northwest operation. You will work closely with our team of subject matter experts and design disciplines to deliver innovative water projects. You will apply knowledge of project delivery requirements, business acumen and metrics, project processes, management, resources, tools, and techniques for the purpose of planning, executing, monitoring, and delivering quality to our clients. The effectiveness of our project delivery teams begins with the leadership of the Senior Project Manager. Therefore, you will need to demonstrate leadership, communication mastery, organizational aptitude, problem-solving and the ability to motivate and manage diverse project teams and develop new and existing clients.

Typical work areas might include:

• Delegate, sequence and oversee the work of technical staff and engineers performing planning and design projects.
• Lead client and internal meetings to advance project work as an effective communicator.
• Lead written reports and development of construction documents
• Support achievement of project goals related to scope, schedule, budget and quality. Monitor profitability through routine earned value analysis and compliance, business revenue forecasting and timely invoicing. 
• Assist with business development efforts including positioning and pursuits.
• Engage in PNWS-AWWA and selectively present at conferences and professional meetings to further represent BC’s brand.
• Serve as a mentor to mid-level and rising professional staff.
• Perform quality assurance and quality control reviews of reports, memorandums, designs.
• Support the development of strategies for the water market sector in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
• Ability to build successful relationships with clients, while collaborating with client service managers and project teams to assess client satisfaction. Monitor and share clients’ critical success factors to ensure project success and client satisfaction
• Leadership Expectations:
  • Set direction – Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team in providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client trying to achieve are important components to setting team direction.
  • Communicate – Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions. Share how communications will be delivered, this includes team standups, technical/design decisions, client changes, etc. 
  • 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 atmosphere wh