Project Manager for Environmental Engineering Planning and Design

Miningamigos; Honolulu, Northern (HI, KY); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Brown and Caldwell is seeking a Project Manager for Environmental Engineering Planning and Design to lead mid-size projects from initiation to delivery. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, define scope, plans, and budgets, and ensure on-time, within-budget results with quality and safety considerations.

The role emphasizes stakeholder communication, risk management, and continuous improvement, with a hybrid work arrangement and collaboration across our environmental engineering practice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in project management, engineering, or business administration or equivalent.
• 5+ years of relevant project management experience.
• Experience with scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk and change management.

Responsibilities

• Lead project team and set direction, schedules, budgets and success factors.
• Define objectives, scope and communication plans for assignments.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans and schedules.
• Monitor progress, risks and change, and report to stakeholders.
• Manage external vendors and contracts to deliver on scope and quality.
• Ensure health and safety requirements and quality standards.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Risk management

Communication

Team leadership

Contract management

Education

Bachelor's degree in project management, engineering, or business administration

Job description

Project Manager for Environmental Engineering Planning and Design

Job Category: Project Services

Requisition Number: PROJE006904

• Full-Time
• Hybrid

Locations

Showing 1 location

Description

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.

Responsibilities

Responsibilitiesincludethe followingfor deliveringday-to-day operations forsmall tomid-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 :Demonstrateintegrity, 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.
• Developprojectteam members :Supportprojectteam 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.Developclear 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 schedulesto provide fortimely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation ofscheduledelaymitigation measuresasneeded.
• Budget : Developand collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule tosetprojectsup forfinancial success.Manage budget on project to meetplanned project performance metrics.
• Quality Management : Create, implementand monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality reviewprocessesand collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.
• Change Management : Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks. Identifyand recommendchangemanagement, in collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the changeorder, 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. Identifyand elevate risks, collaborate withteamsto 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 :includingthird parties/vendors to deliver successfully on their contracted scope, quality,budget, and schedule.
• Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics:Leadachievement 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/collections.
• 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 factorsforproject success and client satisfaction.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.
• May provide mentorship, guidance, support and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow in their roles.

Skills and Competencies

• Solid knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including project planning, budget management and risk management.
• Strong budget, quality and change management skills,
• Understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
• Understandingofcontract management and client service.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of financial performanceand revenue generation.andhow individual projects fit into larger organizational goals.
• Proficient incommunication,client service and engagement skills.
• Proficientteam/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships .

Experience

• Typically, a minimum of 5 years of relevant experiencesuccessfullymanagingprojects ofincreasingcomplexity.Specifically:
• Competency in development and monitoring of project schedules
• Competency in development and monitoring of project budgets
• Experience with risk management concepts
• Experiencecollaborating with cross functional teams.
• Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management, and contract managementof smallto mid-size projects.

Education

• Abachelor’s degreeinproject management,engineering,or businessadministrationor equivalent relevant experience is required.

Salary Range:Theanticipatedstarting payrange for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and maybemore or lessdependingupon skills, experience,and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Location B: $104,000 - $142,000

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 formunicipalities, 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, visitwww.brownandcaldwell.com

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

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