Senior Project Manager - Water/Wastewater

Brown and Caldwell (BC) has an opportunity for a senior level engineer with experience managing and executing work involving projects for the water and wastewater industry.  You will have an essential role in our Southern California (SoCal) Area business and client connections, based in our Irvine, Los Angeles or San Diego, California office(s).  In collaboration with the SoCal Area leader, Client Service Managers, Technical Service Leaders, and the Marketing Manager, you will maintain and develop client relationships, connect BC solutions to client needs and lead project teams in quality project delivery.

Detailed Description: 

The SoCal Area is a thriving/growing area demanding differentiating client service, sustainable and innovative solutions, and effective collaboration with our technical service providers and client contacts.  The BC SoCal business includes significant work in wastewater/biosolids design and advanced water treatment design. This is a highly strategic position for someone who takes pride in exceptional client service, and positive results for our environment and clients.

 

Responsibilities 

Responsibilities include the following for delivering day-to-day operations for mid-sized to large-scale projects:  

• 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 an 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.  Develop 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 to provide for timely resource allocation and delivery.  Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures as needed.    

• Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule. to set a project up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet financial plan. 

• Quality Management: Create, implement and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality review processes and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.  

• Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks.   Identify and recommend change management, in collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the change, and gain client endorsement and approval for the change to minimize financial and execution risk to BC.