Senior Project Manager - Water/Wastewater Services

CDM Smith; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead municipal water and wastewater projects. This role involves managing project delivery, providing technical guidance, and ensuring client satisfaction. You will have the opportunity to enhance engineering capabilities while collaborating with a talented team. The position offers a chance to make a significant impact on community water services. Join a forward-thinking company that values professional growth and offers a hybrid work environment. If you're ready to take your career to the next level in a dynamic setting, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in project management for water services.
• PMP, CCM, or DBIA certification required within 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage municipal water services projects.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineering staff.
• Ensure project scope, schedule, and budget compliance.

Skills

Project Management

Client Service

Technical Guidance

Communication Skills

Team Building

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Project Management Software

Job description

41279BR

Requisition ID: 41279BR

Business Unit: NAU

Job Description: CDM Smith currently has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager with previous experience managing municipal water services projects to join our North Central group. In this position, your primary role will be to lead the successful delivery of engineering projects for our clients in the following areas of practice: planning and design of drinking water, wastewater treatment, biosolids, pump station, conveyance, general municipal engineering, and stormwater. Secondarily, you will support Client Service Leaders in business development activities for projects you are identified to manage or play a key technical role in delivering.

CDM Smith’s Global Delivery Excellence Framework provides project managers with a comprehensive set of standardized tools and policies that streamline scope, schedule, and financial management. Project managers are also provided with project control specialist, contract administrator, and quality management support throughout the project planning, delivery, and closeout lifecycle. Senior Project Manager key performance indicators include revenue managed, profit delivered, cash flow, sales contributions, on-time delivery, quality management system compliance, and individual utilization.

As a member of this team, you would contribute to CDM Smith's mission by:

1. Managing and serving as the lead Project Manager for wastewater, water, stormwater, conveyance, and general municipal engineering projects.
2. Providing technical guidance, senior leadership, and mentoring engineering staff to enhance our water services design capabilities.
3. Being responsible for planning and execution of scope, schedule and budget for projects managed.
4. Completing Quality Assurance/Quality Control reviews of key deliverables.
5. Assisting Client Service Leaders with technical marketing by meeting with clients in the region.
6. Participation in professional societies relevant to the industry.
7. Building and maintaining positive working relationships with key decision makers in our clients’ organizations.
8. Performing technical engineering project work.
9. Providing excellent client service that generates repeat business.
10. Supporting proposal development and participating in interviews for new projects you will help deliver.

Job Title: Senior Project Manager - Water/Wastewater Services

Group: NCG

Employment Type: Regular

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's Degree.
2. 7 years of related experience.
3. PMP (PMI), CCM or DBIA certification is required (within 12 months of hire or promotion onto the Approved Project Manager list).
4. Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands.
5. Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, or chemical engineering or related discipline
2. Professional engineering (PE) license.
3. Previous experience working on and managing projects for municipal water resources, wastewater, drinking water, conveyance clients.
4. Previous experience managing multi-discipline project teams.
5. Excellent communication, networking and team building skills.
6. Previous experience working directly with clients.
7. Master’s degree.
8. Previous business development experience including preparation of proposals and scopes of work and cost estimates for municipal clients.

EEO Statement: We attract the best people in the industry, supporting their efforts to learn and grow. We strive to create a challenging and progressive work environment. We provide career opportunities that span a variety of disciplines and geographic locations, with projects that our employees plan, design, build and operate as diverse as the needs of our clients. CDM Smith is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Job Site Location: Ohio - Cincinnati

Amount of Travel Required: 10%

Assignment Category: Fulltime-Regular

Visa Sponsorship Available: No - We will not support sponsorship, i.e. H-1B or TN Visas for this position

Pay Range Minimum: $86,299

Pay Range Maximum: $151,029

Work Location Options: Hybrid Work Options may be considered for successful candidate.