Project Manager, Water​/Wastewater Infrastructure

Brown and Caldwell is currently looking for a Water/Wastewater Infrastructure Project Manager to join our Atlanta-based municipal team. The successful candidate will apply knowledge of project delivery processes, business acumen and metrics, and management for the purpose of planning, executing, and delivering quality projects to our clients.

Together with strong technical skillsets in water/wastewater infrastructure projects, the ideal project manager will apply solid business judgment along with interpersonal strengths. The effectiveness of our project delivery teams begins with the leadership of the project manager; therefore, our ideal candidate will demonstrate communication mastery, organizational aptitude, problem-solving, and the ability to motivate/manage diverse project teams to build and maintain relationships with our clients.

Our Atlanta operation offers the opportunity to work on a variety of projects in the Metro Atlanta area. In this role, you will work closely with our technical experts, project delivery teams, and clients to advance our technical services and support business development on a wide variety of drinking water and wastewater projects in the Atlanta market as well as the Southeast area.

• Set direction – support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist the team in providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, schedules, budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve are important components to setting team direction.
• Communicate – help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions. Share how communications will be delivered, including team standups, technical/design decisions, client changes, etc.
• Support team motivation – assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating success.
• Establish trust – demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
• Create a safe environment – support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
• Embrace thought and experience diversity – support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
• Develop team members – support team development by contributing to continuous learning and skill development.

• Scope – collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Ensure accurate scope with clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
• Schedule – collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules, ensuring timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of mitigation measures.
• Budget – develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule. Support and assist on alignment of the project budget to both the project scope and schedule to ensure financial success of the project.
• Quality Management – create and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality reviews and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.
• Change Management – identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks. Identify and recommend change, in collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the change, and gain client endorsement and approval for the change to minimize financial and execution risk to BC.
• Risk Management – ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and ongoing risk monitoring throughout the project lifecycle. Identify and elevate risks, collaborate with team to prepare mitigation strategies for each risk, monetization of each risk, and updates the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a…