Senior Project Manager - Water / Wastewater

Brown and Caldwell is currently seeking a 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 water and wastewater 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 ideal 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 handle multiple tasks with competing priorities.

Hybrid work is allowed; Candidates should be able to work out of the Pittsburgh office a couple of days/week.   

Detailed Description:

We are seeking a Project Manager with experience leading, managing, empowering, and overseeing projects and projects teams in delivering complete, quality projects that meet objectives and business performance goals for our clients and BC. In this role, you will utilize your expertise to execute work on projects and to help ensure successful client relationships.  You will also work closely with strong technical experts and other leaders in the Northeast offices and the East Region and as needed, across the country.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Project team leadership expectations:
  • 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.   
  • 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.
  • Develop team members – Support team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring.

• Execution of BC’s project delivery requirements:

  • 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. 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.  Identifies and recommends 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 perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle.  Identifies 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 project.
  • Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety.

• 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 to ensure project success and client satisfaction. 

Required Skills and Experience:

• BS degree in Civil, Environmental, related Engineering field
• 4 years of experience in Project Management with progressively increasing responsibility. Specifically:

• • Typical experience with managing project scopes (or project portfolio) in the range of $25,000 - $500,000
  • Competency in development and monitoring of simple project schedules
  • Competency in development and monitoring of simple project budgets
  • Experience with risk management concepts
• Ability to demonstrate strong project management and leadership skills through previous experience, including change management, risk management, quality management and conflict resolution.
• Valid driver’s license and good driving record required
• 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.
• PE or equivalent licensing or ability to obtain through reciprocity within 6 months

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• MS degree in Civil, Environmental, related Engineering Field.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Strong business acumen, including cash flow, billings, profitability and project management best practices.
• Familiarity with risk management concepts

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.  These ranges may be modified in the future.  

Location A: $106,000 - $145,000

Location B: $117,000 - $160,000

You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter. 

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 services firm with 50 offices and over 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 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.   

Brown and Caldwell is proud to be an EEO/AAP Employer. Brown and Caldwell encourages protected veterans, individuals with disabilities, and applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Brown and Caldwell ensures nondiscrimination in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

Salary : $25,000 - $500,000