Project Manager - Colorado (water/wastewater)

Brown and Caldwell, Inc.; Denver (CO); A distancia; USD 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Brown and Caldwell, Inc. is seeking a Project Manager to join our Front Range delivery team, supporting water-related infrastructure projects across Colorado and working with Client Service Teams to position the company for opportunities ahead.

The PM will plan, execute, and oversee projects to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery with quality and safety compliance, while partnering with Market Leaders and managers to grow client relationships and revenue.

Responsabilidades

• Set direction: Define objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors.
• Communicate: Establish effective communication methods for standups, design decisions, and client interactions.
• Support Team Motivation: Empower team members, resolve conflicts, provide feedback, celebrate success.
• Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
• Create a safe environment: Foster an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
• Embrace thought and experience diversity: Ensure diverse backgrounds and perspectives are heard and respected.
• Develop project team members: Support learning, skills development and mentoring.

Descripción del empleo

Brown and Caldwell (BC) is seeking a Project Manager to join our project delivery team, supporting projects throughout Colorado’s Front Range while helping our Client Service Teams position the company for key opportunities we plan to pursue in the months and years ahead. When you join our team, you will be engaged in a variety of drinking water, wastewater treatment and/or water related infrastructure related projects for our Central Area business and clients. In collaboration with the Market Leader, Client Service Managers, Area Practice Leaders, and the Marketing Manager, you will maintain and develop client relationships, connect BC solutions to client needs and lead project teams in quality project delivery.

The Project Management role involves planning, executing, and overseeing projects so that they are completed on time, within budget, while meeting quality standards and health and safety requirements. The role works closely with cross-functional teams to define project scope, set objectives, allocate resources, and develop detailed project plans. The role monitors progress, manages risks and change, resolves challenges, and communicates with stakeholders to provide regular updates. The role manages moderately complex projects. This role will typically manage small to mid-size projects and is expected to independently deliver results with minimal supervision, while progressively increasing revenue responsibility.

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.

This position may be remote from within Colorado but will ideally be located near our Lakewood, CO office. Periodic travel along the Front Range will be required.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include the following for delivering day-to-day operations for small to mid-sized projects:

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.
• 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 an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
• Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
• Develop project team members: Support project 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. 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 for timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures as needed.
• Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set projects 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 elevate 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 invo