Senior Project Manager, Water Services

Job Details

Location: Hayward, CA 94545

Salary Range: $ - $

Sign‑on Bonus: $5,000

Employment Type: Full‑time, Remote

At FACS, our mission is to make environments safer and healthier for the people who live and work in them. As one of the nation's leading environmental health consulting firms, we help organizations protect their people, assets, and communities. We are built on purpose, partnership, and performance—delivering measurable impact with every client engagement.

• People First:
  Support our team and clients, promote professional growth, and value collaboration.
• Integrity of the Science:
  Deliver accurate, reliable results through objective, evidence‑based practices.
• Client Relationships for Life:
  Build long‑term partnerships and help clients address environmental health challenges.

Manage all aspects of environmental health and industrial hygiene projects, with a specific focus on water quality services, including conversing with potential and existing clients, ensuring project timelines are met, proposal generation, managing project budgets, and generating final reports and recommendations. This role also includes managerial responsibilities such as overseeing staff, supporting team development, coordinating workloads, and providing day‑to‑day guidance and leadership.

Additional responsibilities include performing on‑site risk assessments, plumbing system reviews, environmental sampling, inspections, remediation oversight and monitoring, and consulting related to water management plans and industry guidance associated with water quality, industrial hygiene, and environmental health projects.

Frequent travel is expected with flexibility to travel to job sites across the country. This is a fully remote position. While the role is associated with our Hayward office for administrative purposes, candidates located in the Midwest or East Coast are strongly preferred.

Operational

• Field calls from potential and existing clients.
• Independently manage clients and projects from opportunity to final invoice.
• Attend job walks, pre‑construction job walks and attend meetings.
• Review project scope and select tasks and deliverables.
• Prepare proposals and budgets for projects.
• Review and execute project contracts with assistance of the Department Head.
• Follow procedures for opening new projects; complete Project Intake Form, establish schedule, and assign staff.
• Monitor project budgets, manage field personnel activity on projects, and ensure technical quality.
• Determine and monitor scope, turn‑around time, client interaction, timing and rates.
• Review time‑entry for staff on projects to ensure correct rates and service codes.
• Check turn‑around times for laboratory analysis and details of outside laboratory charges on the WIP to verify they are entered and correct.
• Select, rent or borrow necessary equipment for projects.
• Check charges on Work in Progress (WIP) to verify they are correct.
• Review the WIP on projects weekly.
• Prepare and review reports for projects.
• Proactively manage client communication throughout the project.
• Meet the targets specified in the Incentive Compensation Plan.
• Follow procedure for invoicing projects on a progress or final close‑out.
• Use Clearview to enter time and expenses and update milestones.
• Provide assistance to Accounting when tasked for collections or invoicing issues.
• Assist with recruitment of new staff.
• Work with Supervisor to establish personal operational goals.
• Save all project‑related paperwork into electronic project files.

Business Development

• Make and log customer service/business development calls.
• Attend conferences and association meetings.
• Attend targeted business development meetings.
• Arrange presentation opportunities.
• Delive…