Senior Project Manager - Water/Wastewater Infrastructure

Brown and Caldwell is currently looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead our Washington Infrastructure team.  The successful candidate will represent Brown and Caldwell as a client facing project leader and will also serve as the internal team leader for Infrastructure staff in Washington.  The Infrastructure team across the Pacific Northwest delivers a portfolio of conveyance and pumping planning studies and detailed designs for local municipal clients, collaborating with our Water Resources and Wastewater teams to solve Wet Weather challenges.  Our ideal candidate will have the technical skills for effective project management and technical delivery, and the interpersonal skills to demonstrate leadership, communication mastery, organizational aptitude, problem-solving and the ability to motivate and manage diverse project teams.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• 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 and identify opportunities to pursue. Monitor and share client critical success factors to ensure project success and client satisfaction.
• NW Infrastructure Team leadership: 

• Deliver team strategy: Work with the NW Growth Lead, Area Practice Leaders, and the Municipal Operations Manager to shape and deliver the team’s business development and growth strategy. Set goals that align with the rest of BC’s business operations and achieve those goals by leveraging the whole team and BC’s national resources.
• Resource Management: Track team workloads and manage project assignments aligned to each staff’s personal growth goals. Collaborate with the Municipal Operations Manager to maintain utilization goals for the team. 
• Team Culture: Foster a culture of learning and accountability. Motivate the team by investing in each member’s skills growth, empowering members through both shared and delegated responsibilities, cultivating a culture of trust, and embracing diverse thought and experience.
• Project team leadership: 

• 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 an