Senior Project Manager - Water / Wastewater

Brown and Caldwell•Pittsburgh, PA

49d•Hybrid

About The Position

Brown and Caldwell is currently seeking a Project Manager to join our growing team. The selected individual will utilize their knowledge of project delivery, business expertise, and metrics, as well as project processes, resources, and techniques to effectively plan, execute, monitor, and deliver quality to our water and wastewater clients. The ideal candidate should possess strong interpersonal and personal effectiveness skills. The success of our project delivery teams begins with the leadership of the project manager. Consequently, our ideal candidate will exhibit leadership qualities, exceptional communication skills, a strong organizational aptitude, problem-solving abilities, and the capacity to motivate and manage diverse teams and handle multiple tasks with competing priorities. Hybrid work is allowed; Candidates should be able to work out of the Pittsburgh office a couple of days/week. We are seeking a Project Manager with experience leading, managing, empowering, and overseeing projects and projects teams in delivering complete, quality projects that meet objectives and business performance goals for our clients and BC. In this role, you will utilize your expertise to execute work on projects and to help ensure successful client relationships. You will also work closely with strong technical experts and other leaders in the Northeast offices and the East Region and as needed, across the country.

Requirements

BS degree in Civil, Environmental, related Engineering field
4+ years of experience in Project Management with progressively increasing responsibility. Specifically:
Typical experience with managing project scopes (or project portfolio) in the range of $25,000 - $500,000
Competency in development and monitoring of simple project schedules
Competency in development and monitoring of simple project budgets
Experience with risk management concepts
Ability to demonstrate strong project management and leadership skills through previous experience, including change management, risk management, quality management and conflict resolution.
Valid driver’s license and good driving record required
Must be proficient in using standard computer programs (MS Word, MS Teams, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Outlook) required
Must be proficient in schedule development and management utilizing MS Project Scheduling tools and software.
PE or equivalent licensing or ability to obtain through reciprocity within 6 months

Nice To Haves

MS degree in Civil, Environmental, related Engineering Field.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)
Strong business acumen, including cash flow, billings, profitability and project management best practices.
Familiarity with risk management concepts

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.
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.
Develop team members – Support 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. 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. 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 perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation 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.
Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety.
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.