Project Manager - Colorado (water/wastewater)

Brown and Caldwell•Golden, CO

2d•$95,000 - $155,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Brown and Caldwell (BC) is seeking a Project Manager to join their project delivery team, supporting projects throughout Colorado’s Front Range. This role will be engaged in a variety of drinking water, wastewater treatment, and/or water-related infrastructure projects. The Project Manager will collaborate with Market Leaders, Client Service Managers, Area Practice Leaders, and the Marketing Manager to maintain and develop client relationships, connect BC solutions to client needs, and lead project teams in quality project delivery. The role involves planning, executing, and overseeing projects to ensure they are completed on time, within budget, and meet quality standards and health and safety requirements. The Project Manager works closely with cross-functional teams to define project scope, set objectives, allocate resources, and develop detailed project plans. They will monitor progress, manage risks and change, resolve challenges, and communicate with stakeholders to provide regular updates. This role typically manages small to mid-size projects and is expected to independently deliver results with minimal supervision, while progressively increasing revenue responsibility. The successful candidate will apply knowledge of project delivery requirements, business acumen and metrics, project processes, management, resources, tools, and techniques. Interpersonal and personal effectiveness skills are also crucial, along with leadership, communication mastery, organizational aptitude, problem-solving, and the ability to motivate and manage diverse project teams and develop new and existing clients. This position may be remote from within Colorado but will ideally be located near the Lakewood, CO office. Periodic travel along the Front Range will be required.

Requirements

Solid knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including project planning, budget management and risk management.
Strong budget, quality and change management skills.
Understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
Understanding of contract management and client service.
Strong business acumen and understanding of financial performance and revenue generation. and how individual projects fit into larger organizational goals.
Proficient in communication, client service and engagement skills.
Proficient team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships.
Typically, a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience successfully managing projects of increasing complexity.
Competency in development and monitoring of project schedules.
Competency in development and monitoring of project budgets.
Experience with risk management concepts.
Experience collaborating with cross functional teams.
Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management, and contract management of small to mid-size projects.
A bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, or business administration or equivalent relevant experience is required.

Nice To Haves

8+ years of experience in Project Management with progressively increasing responsibility.
Experience with managing project scopes greater than $500,000.
Competency in the development and monitoring of moderate to complex project schedules, budgets and risk.
PE or equivalent licensing or ability to obtain through reciprocity within 6 months.
Ability to demonstrate strong project management and leadership skills through previous experience.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Previous supervisory or mentoring experience.
A master's degree in Civil, Environmental, or related Engineering or Science field and/or MBA degree.
PE (Professional Engineer) license in Colorado.

Responsibilities

Set direction: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors.
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 success.
Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
Create a safe environment: Support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
Develop project team members: Support project team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring.
Scope: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns.
Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide for timely resource allocation and delivery.
Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set projects up for financial success.
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.
Risk Management: Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle.
Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety.
Manage external resources: including third parties/vendors to deliver successfully on their contracted scope, quality, budget, and schedule.
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/collections.
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.
May provide mentorship, guidance, support and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow in their roles.