Wastewater & Biosolids Project Manager

SYNAGRO Technologies, Inc; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 149,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Holidays

Health insurance

HSA with company match

FSA

401(k) with company match

Career growth

Tuition reimbursement

Bonus incentive

Job summary

Synagro Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Project Manager to lead operational improvement, capital, maintenance, transition, and compliance projects across wastewater and biosolids facilities.

The role requires coordinating engineering, maintenance, contractors, and customers to deliver projects safely, on schedule, and within budget. The position supports a wide range of facilities, emphasizes safety and efficiency, and offers opportunities for growth and professional development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, environmental science, operations management, business, or related discipline.
• Progressive project management experience in wastewater treatment, biosolids, water treatment, utilities, industrial processing, manufacturing, or a comparable operating environment.
• Experience coordinating outages, construction, safety, and production activities.
• Experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, contractors, change orders, commissioning, and operational handover.
• Working knowledge of process equipment such as pumps, piping, tanks, conveyors, dewatering equipment, electrical systems, instrumentation, and controls preferred.
• Experience with biosolids dewatering, drying, pelletizing, thermal processing, or material handling preferred.
• PMP, CAPM, Professional Engineer license, wastewater operator certification, or OSHA 30-hour training preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop project charters defining scope, objectives, responsibilities, budget, schedule, risks, and measures of success.
• Create and maintain project work plans, milestone schedules, action logs, risk registers, decision logs, cost forecasts, and status reports.
• Lead project kickoff, design review, construction readiness, progress, commissioning, handover, and closeout activities.
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, contractors, vendors, operations, maintenance, environmental, health and safety, and customer activities.
• Integrate project execution with continuous wastewater and biosolids operations, including equipment outages, shutdowns, temporary systems, tie-ins, bypass conditions, startup, and commissioning.
• Evaluate project impacts on process capacity, dewatering, sludge handling, drying and pelletizing, centrate or filtrate return, odor control, chemical systems, utilities, material handling, and facility reliability.
• Ensure operators and maintenance personnel participate in planning, design reviews, constructability reviews, and operational-readiness assessments.
• Establish and administer project budgets; track commitments, purchase orders, invoices, accruals, change orders, actual costs, and forecast at completion.
• Develop clear scopes of work; support competitive bidding, contractor selection, mobilization, scheduling, field execution, and performance management.
• Review proposed scope and cost changes, document the business and operational basis, and maintain disciplined change control.
• Identify and elevate safety, compliance, operational, commercial, schedule, and critical-path risks; implement mitigation and recovery plans.
• Develop startup and commissioning plans and verify completion of testing, training, spare parts, operating procedures, drawings, manuals, punch-list items, and required documentation before handover.
• Build collaborative relationships with facility teams, customers, contractors, and internal stakeholders and provide concise leadership-level updates.
• Conduct project closeout and lessons-learned reviews and incorporate improvements into future project planning and execution.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Leadership

Budgeting

Scheduling

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Office

Job description

Synagro Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Project Manager to lead operational improvement, capital, maintenance, transition, and compliance projects across wastewater and biosolids facilities.

The role requires coordinating engineering, maintenance, contractors, and customers to deliver projects safely, on schedule, and within budget. The position supports a wide range of facilities, emphasizes safety and efficiency, and offers opportunities for growth and professional development.