Project Manager - Water/Wastewater Infrastructure

Brown and Caldwell (BC) is currently looking for a Project Manager to join our Washington Infrastructure Team. The successful candidate will have a dual role of representing BC as a client facing project leader and as a Project Engineer leading technical planning and design tasks. The Infrastructure team delivers a portfolio of collection system and conveyance planning studies and designs for municipal clients throughout Puget Sound, collaborating with our Water Resources team as well as our Wastewater practice. This dynamic role supports BC’s clients to navigate complex infrastructure challenges with innovative collection system solutions while ensuring quality for our clients and financial performance for BC.

Our ideal candidate will have the technical skills for effective project management and solving complex technical challenges, the interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively across different teams, and the ability to motivate their peers.

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. Monitor and share clients’ critical success factors to ensure project success and client satisfaction. 

• 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. 

Desired Skills and Experience:

• BS degree in Civil, Environmental, related Engineering or Science field; MS and/or MBA degree preferred.
• 6+ years of industry experience.