Project Manager (Industrial Water​/Wastewater Design

Brown and Caldwell is seeking a Project Manager with experience managing and executing industrial water and wastewater design projects in Brown and Caldwell's Private Sector Business Unit. In this role, the Project Manager will utilize design and project management expertise to deliver high quality design projects within budget and on schedule. Specific work may include managing facility planning, design, construction engineering, and other tasks on current and future projects.

The Project Manager will lead the planning, scheduling, and delivery of complex design projects for industrial water and wastewater systems. The role is responsible for developing and executing detailed project plans that address quality management, schedule and milestones, resource allocation, and budget. The Project Manager will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to lead the projects, monitor progress, identify risks or potential delays, and implement corrective actions to keep projects on track.

Success in this position requires familiarity with design in the industrial water industry.

This role will collaborate with the Private Sector Business Unit Portfolio Design Manager, Portfolio Design Leads, and Chief Engineer to lead the execution of best delivery practices and recommended design delivery approaches for our industrial clients. Client service and support for marketing and proposals will also be included in this role.

The Project Manager role 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.

• Project team leadership expectations:
  • Set direction
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    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
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    Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
  • Support Team Motivation
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    Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating success.
  • Establish Trust
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    Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency
  • Create a safe environment
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    Support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
  • Embrace thought and experience diversity
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    Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
  • Develop team members
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    Support team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring.
• Execution of BC's project delivery requirements:
  • Scope
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    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
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    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
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    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 financial plan.
  • Quality Management
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    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
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    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, and gain client endorsement and approval for the change to minimize financial and execution risk to BC.
  • Risk Management
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    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
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    Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety. Lead development and implementation of…