Project Management (Drinking Water) - New England

Brown and Caldwell•Andover, MA

3d•$78,000 - $127,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Brown and Caldwell, a national environmental engineering firm, has an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our diverse team to lead and manage projects for New England clients. In this critical role, you will be responsible for managing drinking water projects, providing solutions for complex issues, utility management, business development, capital planning, design and engineering, and construction phase efforts. The Project Management role involves planning, executing, and overseeing projects so that they are completed on time, within budget, while meeting all quality standards and health and safety requirements. The role works closely with cross-functional teams to define project scope, set objectives, allocate resources, and develop detailed project plans. The role monitors progress, manages risks and change, resolves challenges, and communicates with stakeholders to provide regular updates. The role focuses on further developing essential project management techniques and an understanding of the company's product/services. The role manages small projects and collaborates with team members on larger or moderately complex projects. Working under clearly defined guidelines and supervision, the role leads small projects, so that each one is completed within the set scope, schedule and budget. Hybrid work is allowed.

Requirements

Working knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including project planning, budget management and risk management.
Foundational understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
Familiarity with contract management and client service.
Basic business acumen with understanding of how individual projects fit into larger organizational goals.
Good communication and client services skills.
Good team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships.
Typically, a minimum of 2 years of project management or relevant task management experience successfully contributing to projects of varying complexity with progressively increasing responsibility.
Competency in development and monitoring of simple project schedules
Competency in development and monitoring of simple project budgets
Introductory experience with risk management concepts
Experience operating in a team environment.
A bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering or business administration, or equivalent relevant experience is required.

Nice To Haves

Minimum of 2 years of experience preferred in municipal water engineering and consulting with progressively increasing responsibility
Experience in management and design of drinking water treatment facilities.
Professional Engineer (PE) license or ability to get one via reciprocity within 6 months.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute is a plus

Responsibilities

Set direction: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team by providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve.
Communicate: Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
Support Team Motivation: Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating successes.
Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency
Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
Scope: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Develop 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 to provide timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures if needed.
Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set project up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet planned project performance metrics.
Quality Management: Create implement and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality review processes and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.
Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks. Identify and recommend change management, in collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the change order, and gain 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 perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle. Identify and escalate risks, collaborate with teams to prepare mitigation strategies for each risk, monetization of each risk, and update the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a project.
Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety. Lead development and implementation of health and safety plans per the project specific requirements.
Manage external resources: including third parties/vendors to deliver successfully on their contracted scope, quality, budget and schedule.
Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics: Lead 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 for project success and client satisfaction.
Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.