Senior Project Manager

Overview

Freese and Nichols is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join our El Paso office to support and grow our West Texas practice. This role offers a unique opportunity for a seasoned professional with expertise in either stormwater engineering or water/wastewater transmission and utilities to lead impactful infrastructure projects that improve communities across the region.

• Leverage your technical prowess to lead the analysis, design, and preparation of plans, specifications, estimates, and reports for our valued clients.
• Cultivate strong client relationships and become a trusted advisor, ensuring client satisfaction.
• Manage, lead, and oversee projects through the full project lifecycle (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/control, and closeout) for design engineering and engineering/construction projects.
• Manage project performance, including scope, schedule, budget, quality, communications, resources, procurement, and risk management, with accountability for meeting project financial and delivery objectives while optimizing client service and technical quality.
• Guide, train, and mentor junior engineers.
• Provide independent leadership and oversight for project teams, including engineers, analysts, and technical staff.
• Depending on background and interest, may emphasize stormwater planning and design or water/wastewater pipelines, pump stations, and utility infrastructure.

• Managing and delivering stormwater capital improvement projects (CIPs), FEMA floodplain studies, watershed master plans, and regional flood mitigation projects.
• Oversee hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) analyses and modeling.
• Experience with software such as HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS (1D/2D/unsteady), ICPR4, Storm
  
  CAD, ArcGIS, and AutoCAD.
• Oversee preparation of stormwater design plans, technical specifications, and opinions of probable construction cost.

• Managing the planning, design, and construction of water pump stations, wastewater lift stations, stormwater pump stations, and large- and small-diameter pipelines.
• Performing or directing complex engineering studies and investigations and preparing technical reports.
• Selecting equipment and materials, and reviewing or approving shop drawings.
• Coordinating with construction managers and responding to issues during construction.

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (or comparable engineering or applied science degree).
• Professional Engineer (PE) license in Texas.

• Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM) (for stormwater-focused candidates).
• Experience working with municipal clients in Texas or the Southwest.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico and Banner Elk, North Carolina. Work is flexible with a hybrid schedule that allows up to 40% remote work and an alternative work schedule program that provides a day off every other Friday.

Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.