Engineering Project Manager - Kiewit Industrial & Water Engineering

Kiewit; Lone Tree (CO); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & Vision

Retirement plan with match

Paid time off

Job summary

Kiewit Industrial & Water Engineering is seeking an Engineering Project Manager to lead multi-discipline engineering projects, from Pre-FEED/FEED to EPC execution, and manage client relationships.

The role requires balancing priorities across projects, strong communication, and delivery within budget and schedule, with opportunities for flexible work and travel up to 25%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• Minimum 10 years' experience in increasingly challenging positions.
• 5+ years’ experience in engineering design or management within the industrial markets.
• 5+ years’ experience in a consulting role.
• Strong negotiation, presentation and persuasion skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage projects in a complex environment.

Responsibilities

• Direct the development and oversee the project execution plan including deliverables lists, schedule, budget, manpower projections, and quality management.
• Schedule and lead project team meetings as required.
• Coordinate client billings with the Kiewit business management team.
• Monitor and report project progress against the execution plan, take corrective action if progress falls behind the plan.
• Monitor, control, and report project expenditures against the budget.
• Oversee contract change notice management process as required.
• Communicate project status to Kiewit management, such as providing regular weekly reports, monthly reports, and other reports as required.
• Develop and execute a communications plan, ensuring team members are informed of strategy, shared goals, objectives, milestones, individual responsibilities, best practices, and policies.
• Overall management of the project design team.
• Work within a matrix environment to communicate and coordinate resource needs.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Negotiation

Communication

Analytical thinking

Time management

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Position Overview

Kiewit Industrial & Water Engineering (KIWE) has an immediate opening for a dynamic Engineering Project Manager in our engineering services group. You will be part of our growing team focused on managing engineering projects including project development, Pre-FEED and FEED scopes and working with clients to help build and maintain relationships. This role is crucial as we offer a Solutions Provider mentality that exceeds client expectations, compliments our EPC business and furthers Kiewit’s legacy of excellence.

Kiewit’s Industrial markets include industrial power, mineral processing/metals, energy transition and biomanufacturing. Specifically, you will participate in client discussions, scope definition, engineering estimating, indicative overall project estimating, proposals and managing execution of multi-discipline engineering scopes. Working with our technical subject matter experts, this scope can range from studies to Pre-FEED / FEED and potentially detailed engineering design.

This position requires an experienced professional capable of balancing multiple competing priorities, either on single larger projects or across many unrelated smaller projects. These priorities include, but are not limited to managing client expectations, maintaining positive and engaging client communication, and managing multi-discipline engineering teams to meet project requirements within budgeted time and price.

District Overview

Kiewit Engineering Group, Inc is a full-service engineering consulting and design firm serving a broad range of industrial markets. Our combined staff of more than 1,300 engineers and design professionals have expertise that spans all major engineering disciplines to serve the industrial, transportation, power, water/wastewater, mining, building, and oil, gas & chemical markets. Our operations-focused engineering provides our clients with safe and efficient facilities, and it integrates our 130 years of construction experience to finish projects on time and to make sure that Nobody Gets Hurt.

Our rapidly growing Industrial and Water Engineering team, which includes process, mechanical, electrical, controls, structural, architectural, geotechnical, and civil disciplines, is a multi-faceted and leading-edge division of Kiewit with best-in-class technical expertise focused on EPC (Engineer Procure Construct) and design-build delivery of industrial projects in markets such as Food & Beverage, Mineral Processing, Renewable Fuels, Pulp and Paper, Steel & Aluminum, Industrial Buildings, and Industrial Energy, Water and Utilities.

Location

This position is based out of Lenexa, KS and Lone Tree, CO and may require up to 25% travel on average based on project demands. Opportunities for flexible work are available.

Responsibilities

• Project Management:
  • Direct the development and oversee the implementation of the project execution plan including deliverables lists, schedule, budget, manpower projections, and quality management.
  • Schedule and lead project team meetings as required.
  • Coordinate client billings with the Kiewit business management team
  • Monitor and report project progress against the execution plan, take appropriate corrective action if progress falls behind the plan
  • Monitor, control, and report project expenditures against the budget.
  • Oversee contract change notice management process as required
  • Communicate project status to Kiewit management, such as providing regular weekly reports, monthly reports, and other reports as required
  • Through engaging communication, provide technical expertise, establishment of team goals, and alignment with project objectives
  • Develop and execute a communications plan, ensuring team members are informed of strategy, shared goals, objectives, milestones, individual responsibilities, best practices, and policies.
  • Overall management of the project design team[AJB2.1]
  • Work within a matrix environment to communicate and coordinate resource needs
• Proposals:
  • Lead project planning processes within the pursuit and proposal phase; determine the required scope and collaborate with company resources, SME’s and functional leadership in preparing written technical engineering scope, development of services estimate, organizational charts, schedule and other proposal deliverables
  • Lead development of next-phase scope and coordinate transition for pre-FEED to FEED or FEED to EPC work.
• Client Engagement:
  • Seek ways to improve customer satisfaction and operating efficiencies
  • Engage with client to fully understand operations priorities and ensures their implementation through the design
  • Identify, evaluate, and document risks inherent in the project that could materially impact the overall success and develop a mitigation plan, jointly between Kiewit and the client, to best allocate the risk and associated mitigation items
  • Coordinate discussions on project design and performance status with Clients
  • Develop future opportunities during project execution on ongoing projects and with recent clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field
• Minimum 10 years' experience in increasingly challenging positions, preferably in an engineering organization
• 5+ years’ experience performing engineering-related design or management within the industrial markets, preferred
• 5+ years’ experience in a consulting role, preferred
• Strong negotiation, presentation and persuasion skills.
• Experienced in communicating ideas, winning approval, and reaching resolutions with a variety of audiences.
• Ability to manage projects and progress ideas to execution in a complex environment.
• Strong analytical ability along with the capacity to interpret data and make recommendations.
• Comfortable with change and ambiguity; adaptable, collaborative and a systems thinker.
• Must be self-motivated, results oriented and must constantly coach in order to develop team members.
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Attention to detail, with the ability to recognize discrepancies
• Ability to work well as part of a team
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Other Requirements:

• Regular, reliable attendance
• Work productively and meet deadlines timely
• Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment
• Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
• Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
• FIELD ROLES ONLY May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.

Base Compensation: $179,000/yr - $187,000/yr

(Actual compensation is subject to variation due to such factors as education, experience, skillset, and/or location)

This posting will be active from: 01/20/2026 - 12/31/2026

We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

Company: Kiewit