Senior Project Manager - (Water/Wastewater)

Brown and Caldwell is currently seeking a Senior 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 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.

Detailed Description:

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager with detailed experience leading, managing, empowering, and overseeing a team of professionals in delivering complete, quality projects that meet objectives and business performance goals for our clients and BC.  

Primary duties for this position include, but are not limited to the following:

• Project team leadership.
  • Set direction – 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 – share how communications will be delivered, this includes team standups, technical/design decisions, client changes, etc. This will help the team understands what communication methods will be used during the assignment.
  • Motivate the Team – empower team members by giving authority and responsibility, resolve conflict and provide feedback. Make sure to pause and celebrate/recognize success.
  • Establish Trust – demonstrate integrity, be a competent leader, show consistency, promote loyalty, and model transparency.
  • Create a safe environment – an environment where team members feel supported and safe to share new ideas and be creative/curious in their approaches.
  • Embrace thought and experience diversity – ability to create an inclusive environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
  • Develop team members by creating a learning culture – help team members identify the areas they need to grow and give them the opportunities to learn those skills.
• Establishing project team engagement - An engaged and satisfied team performs better and produces quality deliverables that meet our clients' needs. Considerations include:
  • Having challenging work.
  • Developing and learning new skills.
  • Having a sense of meaning and purpose, each team member is contributing to key objective(s).
  • Creating a Healthy Team culture where team members can thrive and excel.
• Execution of BC’s project delivery requirements.
  • Scope: Project Manager must have the ability to prepare well-developed scopes of work to establish clear expectations with both the client and project team, which can also help prevent or significantly mitigates project overruns. An accurate scope with clear assumptions and limitations sets realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
  • Schedule: Project Manager must exhibit good scheduling practices to help secure resources and provide adequate time for quality reviews, and thus, enables on-time delivery, and avoidance of budget overruns. Schedule development, baselining and routine maintenance helps identify project problems early, so that mitigation measures can be implemented.
  • Budget: Project Manager must be capable of establishing a well-developed work breakdown structure and project budget to define the level of effort required to produce and deliver a quality work product or service in accordance with the expectations of our client. Alignment of the project budget to both the project scope and schedule is critical to the financial success of the project.
  • Quality Management: Project Manager must be proficient in quality management processes and systems. Quality matters to us because it builds trust with our clients, leads to repeat business, and helps manage our risk. BC’s Quality Framework is a simple and scalable application where everyone contributes to quality. The project managers budget for and are responsible for implementing a Quality Management Plan that incorporates our standards and reviews to reduce quality deficiencies. Delivering quality projects not only leads to higher client satisfaction and loyalty but adds to BC’s bottom line by preventing quality issues and reducing costs associated with errors and rework.
  • Change Management: Project Manager must have a strong aptitude for identifying and