Project Manager - Water​/Wastewater - Saint Paul, MN

Job Category: Project Services

Requisition Number: PROJE
006818

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Saint Paul, MN
Saint Paul, MN 55102, USA

Brown and Caldwell is seeking an engineer with experience managing and executing water and wastewater projects in our Midwest Area. In this role, you will utilize your design and project management expertise to deliver high quality projects and develop strong client relationships. Specific work can include facility planning, design, regulatory compliance, field investigations, report writing construction engineering and other tasks on current and future projects in St.

Paul, MN and across the Midwest Area. Client service and support for marketing and proposals will also be included in this role. This position will be based out of our office in St. Paul, MN.

The Project Management role involves planning, executing, and overseeing projects so that they are completed on time, within budget, while meeting quality standards and health and safety requirements. The role works closely with cross‑functional teams to define project scope, set objectives, allocate resources, and develop detailed project plans. The role monitors progress, manages risks and change, resolves challenges, and communicates with stakeholders to provide regular updates.

The role manages moderately complex projects. This role will typically manage small to mid‑size projects and is expected to independently deliver results with minimal supervision, while progressively increasing revenue responsibility.

Responsibilities include the following for delivering day‑to‑day operations for small to mid‑sized projects:

• Project team leadership expectations:
  • Set direction
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    Support defining objectives, decision‑making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team by providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve.
  • Communicate
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    Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
  • Support Team Motivation
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    Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating success.
  • Establish Trust
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    Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
  • Create a safe environment
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    Support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
  • Embrace thought and experience diversity
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    Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
  • Develop project team members
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    Support project team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring.
• Scope
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  Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Develop clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
• Schedule
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  Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of scheduledelay mitigation measures as needed.
• Budget
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  Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set projects up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet planned project performance metrics.
• Quality Management
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  Create, implement and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality review processes and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.
• Change Management
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  Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks. Identify and recommend change management, in collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the change order, and gain client endorsement and approval for the change to minimize financial and execution risk to BC.
• Risk Management
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  Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the…