Land Application Permitting Engineer and Project Manager

Brown and Caldwell (BC) is seeking a senior level project manager and civil/environmental professional engineer with a desire to apply and develop their project management, leadership, and business development skills. The position will be part of BC’s Private Sector Business Unit, although project work will be completed for both private sector and municipal clients. The desired candidate will have experience working with land application of wastewaters and byproducts from municipal and industrial facilities. The successful candidate will apply knowledge of project delivery requirements, business acumen and metrics, project processes, health and safety, risk management, management resources, tools, and techniques for the purpose of planning, executing, monitoring, and delivering quality projects to our clients. Together with technical skills in project management and business acumen our ideal candidate will require effective interpersonal and personal skills. The effectiveness of our project delivery teams begins with the leadership of the project manager.  Therefore, our ideal candidate will demonstrate leadership, communication mastery, organizational aptitude, problem-solving and the ability to motivate and manage diverse project teams and develop new and existing clients.

*Location can be remote with preference to California locations*

Detailed Description:

In this role, you will work as a project manager to execute work involving land application permitting for industrial facilities. You will lead and support a variety of projects that may include planning, evaluation, design, and construction related activities for wastewater, water, and stormwater conveyance systems. We are looking for someone that is highly organized and capable of working with a diverse team of scientists and engineers on multiple tasks with competing priorities. Specific duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Serve as a Project Manager for a variety of projects focusing on delivery, schedule, and budget.

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 for the client 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 understand 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.

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 mitigate 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, enable 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 contribut