Project Manager

Brown and Caldwell is currently seeking a Senior Staff Project Manager to join our growing team. The selected individual will utilize their knowledge of project delivery, business expertise, and metrics, as well as project processes, resources, and techniques to effectively plan, execute, monitor, and deliver quality to our clients. The ideal candidate should possess strong interpersonal and personal effectiveness skills. The success of our project delivery teams begins with the leadership of the project manager. Consequently, our ideal candidate will exhibit leadership qualities, exceptional communication skills, a strong organizational aptitude, problem-solving abilities, and the capacity to motivate and manage diverse teams and develop new and existing clients.

Detailed Description:

We are seeking a Senior Staff Project Manager with experience leading, managing, empowering, and overseeing projects and projects teams in delivering complete, quality projects that meet objectives and business performance goals for our clients and BC.  The selected individual will manage projects for Retail, Transportation and Waste sector clients.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Project team leadership expectations:
• Set direction – Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team by providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve.
• 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 atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
• Embrace thought and experience diversity – Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
• Develop team members – Support team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring.

Execution of BC’s project delivery requirements:

• Scope: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Ensure accurate scope with clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
• Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules, ensuring timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of mitigation measures.   
• Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule. to ensure financial success of the project.
• Quality Management: Create and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality reviews and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.
• Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks.  Identifies and recommends change, in collaboration with project team, prepares the scope and budget for the change, and gains client endorsement and approval for the change to minimize financial and execution risk to BC. 
• Risk Management: Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle.  Identifies and escalates risks, collaborates with team to prepare mitigation strategies for each risk, monetization of each risk, and updates the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a project.
• Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety.
• Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics – 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.  
• Client Service and Sales/Marketing Support and Engagement – 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. 

Sr. Staff Project Manager:

Required Skills and Experience:

• BS degree in Engineering or Science field or other related field
• 4+ ye