Water Resources Senior Project Manager (California)

Woodard & Curran is a national engineering, science, and operations firm with a simple vision for clean water, a safe environment, healthy communities, and happy people. As an employee-owned company, we strive to cultivate diverse teams and encourage collaboration in an equitable and inclusive culture. We seek talented individuals from all backgrounds to help us address a broad range of water and environmental issues. We prioritize our people, offering opportunities for professional growth, ownership, and flexibility. That’s how we make a difference to our clients, people, and the planet.
What’s in it for you: We currently have an opportunity in California for a Senior Water Resources Technical Manager with interest and experience in the areas of hydrology, supply and demand forecasting and management, supply vulnerability and risk analyses, water systems modeling, integrated planning and decision support. Our growing backlog of water resources work creates an opportunity to be involved in a variety of projects that contribute to the development of solutions addressing key California water resources issues. Experience providing technical leadership on similar projects in California and/or the western United States is a requirement.
Who are we looking for:We currently have an opportunity in California for a Senior Water Resources Project Manager with interest and experience in the areas of hydrology, supply, and demand forecasting and management, supply vulnerability and risk analyses, water systems modeling, integrated planning, and decision support. Our growing backlog of water resources work creates an opportunity to be involved in a variety of projects that contribute to the development of solutions addressing key water resource issues. Experience providing technical leadership on similar projects in California or the western United States is a requirement.
Location: California
Travel: Minimal travel as necessary for client meetings, conferences, etc.
What You Will Be Doing at Woodard & Curran:

Technical Projects Responsibilities:

• Manages complex engineering, planning, or scientific work for clients
• Performs technical tasks of significant difficulty and complexity, working on challenging of projects
• Oversees the overall  quality of project deliverables
• Prepares and delivers presentations to internal and/or external clients
• Leverages expertise in water resources planning that will improve the efficiency and quality of project delivery

Project Management Responsibilities:

• Provides strategic leadership internally to complete projects with diverse project teams
• Lead project teams to provide successful projects that meet client needs
• Manages the financial and technical delivery of projects or tasks within the agreed-upon scope, schedule, and budget
• Manage QA/QC functions to ensure accuracy and adequacy of work products
• Be the primary point of contact on projects
• Supports the recruitment, staff development, and retention

Client Visibility Responsibilities:

• Participates in local, regional, and/or national water resources-related professional groups
• Disseminates project information to team and client via informational emails and other appropriate channels.
• Works with Water Resources Practice Leader to develop key approaches and lead/participate in key initiatives

Business Development/Marketing Responsibilities:

• Fosters and maintains one-on-one relationships with key external clients
• Provides significant skills leading to a competitive advantage for Woodard & Curran
• Develops, reviews, and/or evaluates proposals for water resources practice
• Participates in interviews for new projects

Continuous Learning Responsibilities:

• Engages in staff development and mentoring
• Provides feedback/guidance on staff development if requested
• Identifies technical gaps in our staff and assists in filling those gaps through both proactive recruiting and internal staff development
• Provides mentoring in area(s) of expertise to staff

Supervision Responsibilities:

• Supervises, coordinates, and reviews the project work of technical staff and works to meet completion date.
• Leads discipline coordination on large, complex water resources projects
• Provides technical QC on some or all project elements
• Provides overall project QA if requested

What will you need to succeed?

• Minimum of 15 years of professional work experience managing water resources projects or equivalent demonstrated competency.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: program and project concept development, working with municipal water clients, hydrology, supply, and demand forecasting and