Senior Infrastructure Project Manager

Brown and Caldwell; Rancho Cordova (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match

Performance-based bonus eligibility

Paid time off and parental leave

Job summary

Brown and Caldwell in Rancho Cordova is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Project Manager to lead projects from inception to completion. The successful candidate will have comprehensive project management skills, with at least 10 years of experience managing mid-sized to large projects. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring project delivery on schedule and within budget while maintaining quality standards.

We offer a competitive salary range between $117,000 and $191,000, along with a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and more.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience managing mid-size to large projects.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams is required.
• Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management.

Responsibilities

• Lead project teams to define objectives and manage project resources.
• Create and monitor project schedules and budgets for success.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies throughout the project lifecycle.

Skills

Project management tools and techniques

Budget management

Risk management

Client service skills

Team/staff management

Education

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

Job description

Job Summary

The Senior Infrastructure Project Manager role works to plan, execute, and oversee projects to completion 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 typically manages mid‑sized to large projects and is expected to independently deliver results with minimal supervision, while progressively increasing revenue responsibility.

Responsibilities

• 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 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. 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 a project up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet financial plan.
  • 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, 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 and budget.
• 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 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 factors for project success and client satisfaction.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.

Mentorship

• 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

• Comprehensive knowledge of project management tools and techniques.
• Proven ability in project planning and management, including budget, risk, contract, change and quality management and safety leadership.
• Advanced understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
• Comprehensive understanding of contract management and client service.
• Strong business acumen and ability to align project outcomes with business goals.
• Excellent client service skills and ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
• Proven team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships.
• Proven ability to identify and cultivate opportunities with existing clients.

Experience

• Typically, a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience managing mid‑size to large projects with progressively increasing responsibility, including:
  • Competency in development and monitoring of moderate project schedules.
  • Competency in development and monitoring of moderate project budgets.
  • Competency in Risk Management.
• Experience leading cross‑functional teams.
• Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management, and contract management of mid‑size projects.
• Previous experience applying specialized knowledge in project management to deliver the solutions for clients.

Education

• A bachelor's degree in project management, engineering, business administration or equivalent relevant experience is required.

Salary Range

Location A: $117,000 - $159,000
Location B: $128,000 - $175,000
Location C: $140,000 - $191,000

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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