Senior Project Manager - Water

SolveNow Inc.; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental solutions firm seeks a Senior Project Manager with over 15 years of experience in the water and wastewater sector. Responsibilities include leading marketing efforts, managing project performance, and client interactions. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline, and a Professional Engineering License. This opportunity is located in Virginia Beach, requiring excellent contract negotiation skills and a thorough understanding of financial metrics.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of active water/wastewater experience with demonstrated leadership.
• Ability to manage project budgets, invoicing, and payments.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead team efforts for marketing and prospect identification.
• Accountable for overall project performance and new business objectives.
• Interact with clients and promote company presence in the community.

Skills

Leadership

Contract negotiation

Financial metrics understanding

Education

Bachelor's Degree in technical discipline

Professional Engineering License

Job description

About the job Senior Project Manager - Water

• Leading team efforts for marketing
• Prospect identification, proposal development, proposal preparation, client presentations, project budgeting and contracting for successful opportunities
• Accountable for new business objectives and for overall project performance

Project management

• External focus to interact with assigned clients, become involved in client activities and promote through client and community activities
• Support development of the overall market business plan, market strategies, client engagement strategies and leverage other technical and management resources to advance market footprint
• Oversight of engineering manager(s)
• Development of project performance goals
• Accountability for implementation
• Active involvement with internal project team and owner project representatives on project activities
• Perform or assist with the performance and commercial management of projects including budgeting, invoicing, and payments; lead project performance reviews for assigned project(s)

Staff management

• Team development, mentoring and coaching on performance improvement
• Recommendations for training and promotion of assigned professionals as well as identification and development of new candidates to expand the team

Preferred Qualifications

• 15 + years of active water/ wastewater experience with demonstrated leadership experience in the Virginia Beach market
• Professional Engineering License; Bachelors Degree in technical discipline
• Understanding of budgets and financial metrics
• Contract negotiation skill including knowledge of terms, risks, pricing and payment terms

Minimum Qualifications

• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.