Brown and Caldwell is currently seeking a Senior Project Manager to join our growing team. The selected individual will utilize their knowledge of project delivery, business expertise, and metrics, as well as project processes, resources, and techniques to effectively plan, execute, monitor, and deliver quality to our clients.

The ideal candidate should possess strong interpersonal and personal effectiveness skills. The success of our project delivery teams begins with the leadership of the project manager. Consequently, our perfect candidate will exhibit leadership qualities, exceptional communication skills, a strong organizational aptitude, problem-solving abilities, and the capacity to motivate and manage diverse teams and develop new and existing clients.

Detailed Description:

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager with detailed experience leading, managing, empowering, and overseeing a team of professionals in delivering complete, quality projects that meet objectives and business performance goals for our clients and BC.

Primary duties for this position include, but are not limited to the following:

• Project team leadership.
  • Set direction – 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 – share how communications will be delivered, this includes team standups, technical/design decisions, client changes, etc. This will help the team understands what communication methods will be used during the assignment.
  • Motivate the Team – empower team members by giving authority and responsibility, resolve conflict and provide feedback. Make sure to pause and celebrate/recognize success.
  • Establish Trust – demonstrate integrity, be a competent leader, show consistency, promote loyalty, and model transparency.
  • Create a safe environment – an environment where team members feel supported and safe to share new ideas and be creative/curious in their approaches.
  • Embrace thought and experience diversity – ability to create an inclusive environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
  • Develop team members by creating a learning culture – help team members identify the areas they need to grow and give them the opportunities to learn those skills.
• Establishing project team engagement - An engaged and satisfied team performs better and produces quality deliverables that meet our clients' needs. Considerations include:
  • Having challenging work.
  • Developing and learning new skills.
  • Having a sense of meaning and purpose, each team member is contributing to key objective(s).
  • Creating a Healthy Team culture where team members can thrive and excel.
• Execution of BC’s project delivery requirements.
  • Scope: Project Manager must have the ability to prepare well-developed scopes of work to establish clear expectations with both the client and project team, which can also help prevent or significantly mitigates project overruns. An accurate scope with clear assumptions and limitations sets realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
  • Schedule: Project Manager must exhibit good scheduling practices to help secure resources and provide adequate time for quality reviews, and thus, enables on-time delivery, and avoidance of budget overruns. Schedule development, baselining and routine maintenance helps identify project problems early, so that mitigation measures can be implemented.
  • Budget: Project Manager must be capable of establishing a well-developed work breakdown structure and project budget to define the level of effort required to produce and deliver a quality work product or service in accordance with the expectations of our client. Alignment of the project budget to both the project scope and schedule is critical to the financial success of the project.
  • Quality Management: Project Manager must be proficient in quality management processes and systems. Quality matters to us because it builds trust with our clients, leads to repeat business, and helps manage our risk. BC’s Quality Framework is a simple and scalable application where everyone contributes to quality. The project managers budget for and are responsible for implementing a Quality Management Plan that incorporates our standards and reviews to reduce quality deficiencies. Delivering quality projects not only leads to higher client satisfaction and loyalty but adds to BC’s bottom line by preventing quality issues and reducing costs associated with errors and rework.
  • Change Management: Project Manager must have a strong aptitude for identifying and management change on a project. This can be both internal change (resources, quality, productivity) and external change (scope creep, change scope conditions, client request for additional work). The ability to quickly identify the change, prepare the scope and budget for the change, and get client endorsement and approval for the change minimizes financial and execution risk to BC.
  • Risk Management: Project Manager must be proficient in risk management processes and systems. This includes the identification of risks, preparing mitigation strategies for each risk, monetization of each risk, and updating the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a project.
  • Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics - Project managers are responsible for achieving project performance success through leading the team and meeting the scope, schedule, budget and quality requirements while also accounting for pricing and profitability. Successfully delivered projects that are profitable have a direct impact on business performance (as-bid, as-contracted and as-delivered). Project Manager must be proficient in earned value compliance and business forecasting and projections on a monthly basis, while also ensuring invoices go out in a consistent and timely and that we are getting paid within the duration defined in our contract terms.
  • Client Service and Sales/Marketing Support and Engagement – The project manager shall work closely with client service managers, client service teams, and accountable approvers to assess client satisfaction through interactions. Understanding, sharing and monitoring the client’s critical success factors and objectives are important to project success and client satisfaction.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS degree in Civil, Environmental, or related Engineering field.
• 10 years of experience in the water and wastewater field with progressively increasing responsibility.
• PE or equivalent licensing in Texas, or ability to obtain through reciprocity within 6 months is required.
• Strong project management and leadership skills.
• Previously proven and successful project management experience as the lead.
• Strong planning experience through design and construction of large industrial, municipal and/or federal facilities.
• Must be proficient in change management processes and systems.
• Ability to identify and mitigate risks on projects.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate orally and in writing - across functions and teams, up and down the chain of command. 
• Proficient in contract terms and execution.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Successful marketing, proposal writing, proposal management, and public presentations experience required.
• Ability to proactively deal with conflict. 
• Must be proficient in using standard computer programs (MS Word, MS Teams, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Outlook) required.
• Must be proficient in schedule development and management utilizing MS Project Scheduling tools and software.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to conduct effective presentations and written report preparation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS in Civil, Environmental, or related Engineering field and/or MBA degree preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) preferred.
• Previous supervisory or mentoring experience a plus.

Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education.

$115,000 - $156,000

Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401 (k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.

About Brown and Caldwell

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction firm with 50 offices and 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice—to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com

This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test. 

Notice to Third Party Agencies: Brown and Caldwell does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement and approved engagement request with Brown and Caldwell, Brown and Caldwell reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.

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