Project Manager - water engineering (remote allowed)

Brown and Caldwell is currently seeking an Associate Project Manager to join our growing team. 

This full-time position will contribute to project delivery and client service teams in winning and executing innovative planning, evaluation, design, permitting and providing construction support services for a variety of advanced treatment plants, biosolids, pumping stations, pipeline, and integrated water resources projects for municipal clients. We are looking for a Civil/Mechanical/Environmental Engineer with a PE license who will partner with leaders in our Northeast Area to advance our growth strategy while providing project oversight and engineering mentorship as it pertains to water, wastewater, stormwater conveyance or related water engineering work.

Remote work from within the New England region is allowed but selected individual must be willing to travel (~25% of the time) to client sites throughout New England.

Detailed Description:

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 perfect 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.

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 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 where ideas and creativity thrive.
  • Embrace thought and experience diversity – Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
  • Develop team members – Support team development by contributing to continuous learning and skill development.
• 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. Support and assist on alignment of the project budget to both the project 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 ongoing risk monitoring 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.
• Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics – Support achievement of project goals related to scope, schedule, budget and quality. Monitor profitability through routine earned