Senior Project Manager - Water​/Wastewater

Senior Project Manager - Water/Wastewater

Location: Kansas City, Missouri

Garver is seeking an experienced water industry professional as a Senior Project Manager for our developing Greater Kansas City Metropolitan area portfolio. If you have ever dreamed of having your own practice, this just may be your calling—only better. You will be empowered and rewarded to grow your own practice with the full support of a century‑old engineering consulting firm rapidly growing in the water market.

The successful candidate will help develop and lead business planning, pursue diverse and custom water and wastewater projects, build and maintain outstanding client relationships, be active in industry activities and events, and learn and mentor as part of a growing full‑services team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the hands‑on management of exciting water industry projects through all phases of delivery.

• Water infrastructure planning, design, implementation, and optimization
  • Water distribution, pumping, and storage
  • Sewer collection, pumping, and storage
• Water resources planning and development
  • Conveyance, pumping, and storage
  • Surface water supply
  • Groundwater supply
  • Challenged and/or reuse supply
• Water facilities planning, design, implementation, and optimization
  • Drinking water treatment plants
  • Wastewater treatment plants
  • Advanced water treatment plants

• Business planning and development activities
• Client service management
• Pursuit planning
• Support proposal development efforts
• Scope, fee, and contract development services
• Program Owner's Advisor (OA) services
• Oversee production of deliverables, including:
  • Complete detailed design calculations, drawings, and specifications
  • Scheduling, management and coordination of support disciplines and subconsultants
  • Facilitate stakeholder engagement activities
  • Support permitting approval with regulatory agencies
  • Manage quality assurance and risk management
  • Facilitate workshops with clients
• Transition to construction phase (both alternative delivery and design‑bid‑build)
  • Contractor pre‑qualification and bid evaluation
  • Participate in facilitated teaming activities
  • Technical review of submittals and RFIs
  • Construction phase engineering support
  • Scheduling, management and coordination of support disciplines and subconsultants
  • Progress tracking and communications
• Transition to integration phase
  • Manage owner training program
  • Equipment, instrument, and device checkout and performance validation
  • Control system and HMI integration
  • Scheduling, management and coordination of support disciplines and subconsultants
  • Contract closeout

Travel will be required on an as‑needed basis for projects, conferences, marketing, and other duties to maintain your designated service area. The successful candidate will have a great opportunity for professional and career development while attending industry conferences as a subject matter expert on behalf of Garver and the Water Business Line.

• Display technical competency of water or wastewater engineering
• Develop and manage detailed project delivery assumption, scope of work, level of effort, and associated man‑hour estimates
• Manage and delegate scope, budget, and schedule for a team of multi‑disciplined (civil, process, structural, mechanical, electrical, and I&C) project engineers, design engineers, and CAD technicians in the development of various Water Business Line projects
• Manage and delegate multiple projects concurrently
• Be responsible for time management and work product quality
• Keep accurate and up‑to‑date project accounting on all assigned projects
• Conduct written and oral project reporting for clients and Team Leader. Reporting will include project design status, upcoming milestones, project accounting and billing, percent completes, progress reports, etc.
• Prepare and execute Quality Assurance and Quality Control Plans
• Lead internal and external project workshops
• Be an active learner responsible for continuing education and learning based on project needs, as well as overall needs of the team
• Construction management, excluding construction observation, for local projects

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