Sr. Environmental Project Manager

Gsi Companies; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead significant environmental projects. This role involves providing technical direction, managing client relationships, and ensuring projects meet scope, budget, and quality standards. The successful candidate will leverage their extensive experience to coordinate resources, manage risks, and deliver results. If you are passionate about environmental management and thrive in a dynamic environment, this is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in your field.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience with 6+ years in project management for environmental projects.
• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage and provide technical direction for large environmental projects.
• Coordinate internal resources and ensure timely project delivery within budget.

Skills

Project Management

Technical Direction

Environmental Concepts

Risk Management

Client Relationship Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Master's Degree in a relevant field

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Project Manager provides overall technical direction and project management to environmental projects of considerable size, scope or complexity and ensures that projects and tasks performed by the company are designed and conducted in accordance with applicable regulations, guidance, and client-specified requirements. Provides technical and managerial advice or counsel to other professionals and has responsibility for ensuring the technical quality of projects. The Senior Project Manager may also be asked to assist with developing program policies and technical content and pricing for proposals and may run select projects.

The Senior Project Manager manages key client projects. Project management responsibilities include the coordination and completion of projects on time within budget and within scope. He or she will oversee all aspects of projects; set deadlines, assign responsibilities, and monitor and summarize progress of projects; and prepare reports for upper management regarding the financial status of projects.

The successful candidate will work directly with clients to ensure deliverables fall within the applicable scope and budget and meet company quality requirements. He or she will coordinate with other departments to ensure all aspects of each project are compatible and will support the hiring of new talent as needed to fulfill client needs.

Must be familiar with a variety of environmental concepts, practices, and procedures; rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals; perform a variety of tasks; lead and direct the work of others; enhance department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Primary duties and responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Provides and is responsible for overall management and technical direction to projects of considerable size, scope or complexity
• Coordinates internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Ensures that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Assists in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Ensures resource availability and allocation
• Develops a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
• Manages changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
• Measures project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
• Reports and escalates to management as needed
• Manages the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Performs risk management to minimize project risks
• Establishes and maintains relationships with third parties/vendors
• Creates and maintains comprehensive project documentation
• Meets with clients to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements of each project
• Delegates project tasks based on junior staff members' individual strengths, skill sets, and experience levels
• Tracks project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
• Meets budgetary objectives and makes adjustments to project constraints based on financial analysis
• Develops comprehensive project plans to be shared with clients as well as other staff members
• Uses and continually develops leadership skills
• Attends conferences and training as required to maintain proficiency
• Performs other related duties as assigned
• Develops spreadsheets, diagrams and process maps to document needs

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Candidates will have a minimum of 10 years of total professional work experience, with a minimum of six years’ experience in providing technical guidance or project management on large environmental projects for federal agency customers. Must possess a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study. A Master's Degree in a relevant field will be equivalent to one and two years respectively of general experience in that field. Candidates with previous project.