Water Resources Project Manager - New England

Brown and Caldwell is hiring a Water Resources Project Manager to lead small stormwater, water resources, and water/wastewater engineering projects. The role coordinates project teams and manages scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, safety, and client relationships to deliver projects successfully.

Responsibilities:

• Set direction: 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: Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions
• Support Team Motivation: Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating successes
• Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency
• Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered
• Scope: 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: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures if needed
• Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set project up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet planned project performance metrics
• Quality Management: 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: 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: Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle. Identify and escalate risks, collaborate with teams to prepare mitigation strategies for each risk, monetization of each risk, and update the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a project
• Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety. Lead development and implementation of health and safety plans per the project specific requirements
• Manage external resources: including third parties/vendors to deliver successfully on their contracted scope, quality, budget and schedule
• Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics: Lead achievement of project goals related to scope, schedule, budget and quality. Monitor profitability through routine earned value analysis and compliance, business revenue forecasting and timely invoicing
• Client Service and Sales/Marketing Support and Engagement: Ability to build successful relationships with Clients, while collaborating with client service managers and project teams to assess client satisfaction. Monitor and share clients’ critical success factors for project success and client satisfaction
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs

Requirements:

• Working knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including project planning, budget management and risk management
• Foundational understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes
• Familiarity with contract management and client service
• Basic business acumen with understanding of how individual projects fit into larger organizational goals
• Good communication and client services skills
• Good team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships
• Typically, a minimum of 2 years of project management or relevant task management experience successfully contributing to projects of varying complexity with progressively increasing responsibility
• Competency in development and monitoring of simple project schedules
• Competency in development and monitoring of simple project budgets
• Introductory experience with risk management concepts
• Experience operating in a team environment
• A bachelor's degree in project management, engineering or business administration, or equivalent relevant experience is required