Senior Project Manager

Brown and Caldwell•New York, NY

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a professional engineer with experience managing and executing work involving projects for the municipal water and wastewater industry. In this role you will utilize your consulting expertise to develop, manage and execute work on design, design services during construction, and construction management projects and to help ensure successful client relationships. You will also work closely with and be mentored by strong technical experts and business development experts along with other leaders in the Northeast Area. The Senior Project Manager works to plan, execute, and oversee projects to completed on time, within budget, while meeting 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 typically manages mid-sized to large projects and is expected to independently deliver results with minimal supervision, while progressively increasing revenue responsibility.

Requirements

Comprehensive knowledge of project management tools and techniques.
Proven ability in project planning and management, including budget, risk, contract, change and quality management and safety leadership.
Advanced understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
Comprehensive understanding of contract management and client service.
Strong business acumen and ability to align project outcomes with business goals.
Excellent client service skills and ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
Proven team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships
Proven ability to identify and cultivate opportunities with existing clients.
Typically, a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience managing mid-size to large projects with progressively increasing responsibility.
Competency in development and monitoring of moderate project schedules
Competency in development and monitoring of moderate project budgets
Competency in Risk Management
Experience leading cross functional teams.
Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management, and contract management of mid-size projects.
Previous experience applying specialized knowledge in project management to deliver the solutions for clients.
A bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, business administration or equivalent relevant experience is required.
Project management certification or ability to achieve in 6 months.

Nice To Haves

Prefer 15 + years of Experience Managing and executing planning, design, design services during construction, and construction management work for wastewater and water
MS degree in related engineering field with a focus on water and wastewater projects
NYS Professional Engineer’s License
DBIA/DBIA Assoc. Certification

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 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 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. 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 for timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures as needed.
Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule. to set a 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.
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.
Lead, develop, and coach a high-performing team by setting clear expectations, providing feedback, and fostering a culture of engagement, growth, and accountability.
Oversee workload planning, performance management, and team operations to align resources with business objectives while ensuring compliance with company policies and regulations.
Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.