Senior Project Manager; Water​/Wastewater Delivery

Brown and Caldwell is currently looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our project delivery team. The successful candidate will apply knowledge of project delivery requirements, business acumen and metrics, project processes, management, resources, tools, and techniques for the purpose of planning, executing, monitoring, and delivering quality to our clients. Together with technical skills in project management and business acumen our ideal candidate will require interpersonal and personal effectiveness skills.

The effectiveness of our project delivery teams begins with the leadership of the project manager. Therefore, our ideal candidate will demonstrate leadership, communication mastery, organizational aptitude, problem‑solving and the ability to motivate and manage diverse project teams and develop new and existing clients.

Our Tampa operation offers the opportunity to work on a variety of projects in the Tampa area. In this role, you will work closely with our technical experts, project teams, and clients to advance our technical services and support business development on a wide variety of wastewater, drinking water and water resources projects – this will include planning, conveyance, and treatment.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Set direction – Support defining objectives, decision‑making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team in providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client 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, this includes 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 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, prepares the scope and budget for the change, and gains 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 escalates risks, collaborates 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…