Senior Environmental Project Manager

Job Description

Terracon's Salt Lake City office is looking for a talented Senior Project Manager to join our Environmental Department! As one of the largest and most-established environmental consulting firms in Utah, Terracon has an incredible team of environmental professionals and amazing clients. We are a 100 percent employee-owned consulting engineering firm providing quality services to clients.

This position requires a senior level environmental professional responsible for leading complex environmental projects. Primary duties will be to provide consulting services for a broad array of environmental projects, including Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, Site Investigations, Remediation, and Regulatory Compliance. The candidate must be able to identify, evaluate, and recommend remediation strategies/designs to address environmental impacts. This may include leading environmental site investigations, design and development of plans and specifications, engineering analysis, observation, inspection, and reporting.

Duties will include the preparation of applicable technical documents including proposals, reports, remedial action strategies, and regulatory agency correspondence.

You will manage all aspects of environmental projects to ensure they are safely completed on time and within scope and budget. You are responsible for completing the project as per its contracted scope; monitoring progress and performance against the project plan. You will troubleshoot and recommend or resolve operational problems and minimize delays. You may be responsible for resource management, project scheduling, budgets and forecasts, and working with external vendors, subcontractors or contractors.

You will conduct meetings and prepare reports to communicate the status of the project to the project team and client. You will set priorities, assign tasks, and coordinate project staff to meet project targets and milestones. You may have responsibilities to communicate with the client and deliver work products to the satisfaction of the client. You will coordinate efforts with an internal Authorized Project Reviewer (APR) to make sure the APR has opportunity to engage throughout the project, particularly at critical junctures.

You will be involved with approving invoices, preparing change orders, and collections.

• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to cultivate strong relationships within a team and with clients.
• Strong technical background in environmental investigation and remediation projects.
• Manage all aspects of a large scale and complex project.
• Works with client or National Account Manager to define project scope, schedule and budget.
• Leads interactions with client and stakeholders to ensure their goals are being considered in execution of the work.
• Design, communicate, and implement a project plan for completing a project.
• Leads safety efforts including preparation and compliance with approved safety plan.
• Resolve operational problems and minimize delays.
• Identify, develop, and gather necessary resources to complete the project.
• Prepare designs and work specifications; develop schedules, budgets and forecasts; select materials, equipment, project staff, and contractors.
• Estimate costs, resources, and time required to complete.
• Prepares forecasts for expenditures and manages scope, schedule to meet budget.
• Monitor activities, allocate resources, and assign tasks to ensure targets are met.
• Partner with other departments or offices to secure specialized resources for the project.
• Conduct project meetings and prepare reports to communicate the status of the project within and beyond the project team.
• Coach and mentor project staff and assist them to solve problems.
• Coordinates with APR to ensure appropriate oversight is in place and sufficient time allowed for quality reviews.
• Coordinates with accounting for financial management of business intelligence, invoicing and collections.
• Develop understanding and be aware of project-related risk. Be familiar with what could go wrong on a project and how to protect the Company. Be familiar with company risk policies.
• Lea…