Engineering Project Manager - Industrial & Water Engineering

Engineering Project Manager - Kiewit Industrial & Water Engineering

Location:

Lenexa, KS and Lone Tree, CO

Position Overview:

Kiewit Industrial & Water Engineering (KIWE) has an immediate opening for a dynamic Engineering Project Manager in our engineering services group. You will be part of our growing team focused on managing engineering projects including project development, Pre-FEED and FEED scopes and working with clients to help build and maintain relationships. This role is crucial as we offer a Solutions Provider mentality that exceeds client expectations, compliments our EPC business and furthers Kiewit's legacy of excellence.

Kiewit's Industrial markets include industrial power, mineral processing/metals, energy transition and biomanufacturing.

Responsibilities:

• Project Management:
  Direct the development and oversee the implementation of the project execution plan including deliverables lists, schedule, budget, manpower projections, and quality management.
• Schedule and lead project team meetings as required.
• Coordinate client billings with the Kiewit business management team.
• Monitor and report project progress against the execution plan, take appropriate corrective action if progress falls behind the plan.
• Monitor, control, and report project expenditures against the budget.
• Oversee contract change notice management process as required.
• Communicate project status to Kiewit management, such as providing regular weekly reports, monthly reports, and other reports as required.
• Through engaging communication, provide technical expertise, establishment of team goals, and alignment with project objectives.
• Develop and execute a communications plan, ensuring team members are informed of strategy, shared goals, objectives, milestones, individual responsibilities, best practices, and policies.
• Overall management of the project design team.
• Work within a matrix environment to communicate and coordinate resource needs.

Proposals:

• Lead project planning processes within the pursuit and proposal phase; determine the required scope and collaborate with company resources, SME's and functional leadership in preparing written technical engineering scope, development of services estimate, organizational charts, schedule and other proposal deliverables.
• Lead development of next-phase scope and coordinate transition for pre-FEED to FEED or FEED to EPC work.

Client Engagement:

• Seek ways to improve customer satisfaction and operating efficiencies.
• Engage with client to fully understand operations priorities and ensures their implementation through the design.
• Identify, evaluate, and document risks inherent in the project that could materially impact the overall success and develop a mitigation plan, jointly between Kiewit and the client, to best allocate the risk and associated mitigation items.
• Coordinate discussions on project design and performance status with Clients.
• Develop future opportunities during project execution on ongoing projects and with recent clients.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, process, or electrical engineering or related field.
• Minimum 10 years' experience in increasingly challenging positions, preferably in an engineering organization in industrial markets.
• 5+ years' experience performing engineering-related design or management within the industrial markets, preferred.
• 5+ years' experience in a consulting role, preferred.
• Strong negotiation, presentation and persuasion skills.
• Experienced in communicating ideas, winning approval, and reaching resolutions with a variety of audiences.
• Ability to manage projects and progress ideas to execution in a complex environment.
• Strong analytical ability along with the capacity to interpret data and make recommendations.
• Comfortable with change and ambiguity; adaptable, collaborative and a systems thinker.
• Must be self-motivated, results oriented and must constantly coach in order to develop team members.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Attention to detail, with the ability to recognize discrepancies.
• Ability to work well as part of a team.

Working Conditions:

• Regular, reliable attendance.
• Work productively and meet deadlines timely.
• Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment.
• Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
• Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
• FIELD ROLES ONLY May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.

Base Compensation: $130,000/yr - $160,000/yr (Actual compensation is subject to variation due to such factors as education, experience, skillset, and/or location)

This posting will be active from: 07/09/2026 - 10/06/2026

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