Senior Project Manager, Water/Wastewater Treatment Systems

Salas O'Brien•Pleasant Grove, CA

2d•Remote

About The Position

At Salas O’Brien, we are engineered for impact, applying this passion to both our projects and our team. We are committed to living our values: inspiring, achieving, and connecting as shared owners of our success with a focus on a sustainable future. We build for the long-term, ensuring our team members work on amazing projects with a people-first approach to problem-solving and have limitless potential to build unique, meaningful, and high-impact careers with great total rewards. Salas O’Brien is an employee-owned engineering and professional services firm founded in 1975, focused on achieving impact for our clients, our team, and the world. We design lasting solutions for pressing challenges, working across various disciplines including water and wastewater systems, data centers, healthcare, clean energy, and more. Our technical expertise is complemented by a strong team of business development, HR, finance, IT, and marketing professionals. We are seeking a Senior Project Manager who can quickly develop into a Principal and practice leader. This is an opportunity for an entrepreneurial individual with strong technical and practice management skills to build and lead a practice with significant company support. While developing an independent client portfolio is desirable, our immediate need is to support internal water treatment plant design project opportunities. The successful candidate will excel in engineering, project management, marketing, and mentoring. This role offers an experienced professional a chance to establish an independent practice with mentoring and support from a capable team. The ideal candidate enjoys solving client problems, making their job easier, and has a proven record of successful water and wastewater systems projects with satisfied clients.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Mechanical Engineering
15+ years of related experience in water/wastewater projects in a design/engineering consulting environment
PE Required
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Masters degree preferred

Responsibilities

Supervise multiple projects to ensure they meet commitments related to time, quality, and communication.
Work directly with clients to establish project schedules and set expectations.
Demonstrated success and expertise in water treatment design is critical to this position.
Display solid understanding of the principles related to water and wastewater utility engineering, including wells, pipelines, pump stations, storage tanks, and treatment systems.
Proven track record as a problem solver in a client facing role.
Serve as a project manager lead; provide and enhance client relationships.
With significant support from existing teams, recruit, lead, and direct staff and sub-consultants in the execution of specific projects to meet schedules and timely completion of projects.
Relish opportunity to build practice and be supported by a company that is keenly interested in organic growth.