Project Manager​/Senior Project Manager; water​/wastewater engineering

Project Manager/Senior Project Manager (Water/Wastewater Engineering)

Brown and Caldwell (BC) is seeking a Project Manager/Senior Project Manager with successful experience in Water/Wastewater project delivery to join the Texas team. In this role, you will work closely with our technical experts, project teams, and client service managers to advance our technical services and support business development on a wide variety of wastewater, drinking water and water resources projects in your local Texas market as well as state-wide.

We are looking for a candidate with a proven track record of delivering work in the state of Texas as well a desire to continue to help the firm build and foster long lasting client relationships.

This Project Management role works to plan, execute, and oversee projects to completion 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.

Projects within the purview of this position will span from conceptual planning, across preliminary and final design, to construction phase support services for water, wastewater and related water resource facilities including treatment practice, conveyance infrastructure, and strategic communications practice.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include the following for delivering day-to-day operations for mid-sized to large-scale projects:

• Project team leadership expectations:
• 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.
• Execution of BC's project delivery requirements:
• 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…