Senior Project Manager - Water​/Wastewater Services

Senior Project Manager - Water/Wastewater Services

This position can be located in our Los Angeles or Irvine, CA office.

CDM Smith is growing in Southern California! We have a new opening for a Sr. Project Manager - Water Services.

• Managing and serving as the lead Project Manager on municipal water or wastewater services projects in Southern California
• Project Development Design:
  Creating project definitions, schedules, budgets and objectives for projects using lessons learned. Preparing detailed statements of work with associated work breakdown structures and gaining concurrence and approval from internal and external stakeholders regarding various project aspects. Assessing potential project risk and outlining risk mitigation solutions. Ensuring adherence to company and project management policies, procedures, and practices.
• Billing and Budget Management:
  Managing project costs and ensuring profitability. Identifying, quantifying, and communicating risk (time and cost). Creating and reviewing timely client billings with internal billing support. Responsible for ensuring timely client payment and following up on outstanding client invoices to obtain payment. Reviewing and approving subcontractor/vendor invoices to ensure timely payment to outside resources.
• Scope Management, Technical Execution and Deliverables Management:
  Performing ongoing review of project status. On an ongoing basis, monitoring project risks; identifying possible risks and recommending and implementing risk mitigation solutions; escalating as appropriate. Managing project change using change management protocols; determining appropriate changes or alternate paths based upon performance and metrics. Working in conjunction with team members and internal and external stakeholders to manage changes to requirements and schedule of the project.
  
  Ensuring proper review of project scope by safety managers and proper implementation of safety plans. Providing timely response to audit corrective actions identified by external or internal audits. Planning and conducting work requiring judgement in the independent evaluation, selection, and application of standard engineering or construction techniques, procedures, and criteria. Providing guidance to drafters/designers, engineers, craft workers, other project team members, contractors or subcontractors.
• Resource Management and Leadership:
  Developing and implementing project resource plan and managing the staffing of assigned projects. Determining and coordinating the proper staffing within the project including identification of outside resources needed (sub/ vendors) and ensuring procurement processes are followed. Clearly communicating project deadlines, assignments and objectives to project team members. Assigning work and providing direction to project staff with regard to timeliness and completion of project objectives.
  
  Coaching project staff and providing feedback to staff and to project staff’s supervisors on project performance; escalating any performance issues to appropriate management and human resources.
• Client Service Management and Sales
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Building, maintaining and managing strong client relationships. Ensuring client satisfaction by delivering quality, on-time project outcomes as a result of good planning and organizational skills; managing client expectations. Identifying opportunities for change orders and repeat business through pre-eminent project execution and developed client relationships. Working collaboratively with sales leaders to evaluate potential new work and supports the scoping and costing effort.
• Participation in professional societies relevant to the industry

• Bachelor's Degree
• 10 years of related experience
• PMP (PMI), CCM or DBIA certification is required (within 12 months of hire or promotion onto the Approved Project Manager list)
• Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands.
• Equivalent additional directly…