[Hiring] Manager, Construction Remediation Project Management @Brown and Caldwell

Role Description

Brown and Caldwell is seeking a Senior Project Manager focused on Private Sector and Municipal markets with a proven track record developing and delivering Environmental Construction Services (ECS) projects through collaborative at-risk delivery models, including design-build (DB), engineering-procurement-construction (EPC), construction management at risk (CMAR), and progressive forms thereof.

Serving as Deputy to the Collaborative Delivery Enterprise (CDE) ECS Director, this leader will assemble and manage multidisciplinary teams across:

• Environmental science
• Engineering
• Compliance and permitting
• Cost estimating
• Procurement
• Pre-construction
• Construction
• Operations and maintenance (O&M)
• External subcontractor and supplier partners

Targeted services include:

• Environmental remediation
• Mitigation
• Restoration
• Closure projects
• Smaller industrial and municipal water/wastewater projects, typically under $5M

Success in this role requires strong networking, communication, and collaboration across BC business units, shared services, design services, and technical practices.

The Senior Project Manager will provide development and delivery leadership for key private and municipal clients, including:

• Private-sector production markets such as distribution, food and beverage, mining, and manufacturing
• Energy markets such as oil/gas, chemicals, power, and technology

The successful candidate will sustain and grow significant revenue by maintaining, leveraging, and expanding strong internal relationships along with key clients, subcontractors, and suppliers at national and local levels while aligning stakeholders to deliver CDE ECS assignments that meet company standards for safety, quality, risk management, and profitability and exceed client expectations.

While this role may be remote with travel, candidates located near BC’s Ramsey New Jersey, New York City, or Philadelphia offices is preferred. Other locations of interest include Houston, Denver, Tampa/Orlando, Atlanta, Los Angeles/Irvine, Walnut Creek.

This role requires travel for multiple consecutive days and sometimes on weekends, up to 20% annually. This may include job-site duty for up to two weeks per trip home to support on-site construction and safety management.

Responsibilities

• Project team leadership expectations:
  • Set direction: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets, and success factors.
  • 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.
  • Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide for timely resource allocation and delivery.
  • Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule.
  • Quality Management: Create, implement, and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust.
  • Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks.
  • Risk Management: Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies, and perform ongoing risk monitoring.
  • Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety.
  • Manage external resources: Including third parties/vendors to deliver successfully on their contracted scope, quality, budget, and schedule.
• 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.
  • Monitor and share clients’ critical success factors for project success and client satisfaction.
• Lead, develop, and coach a high-performing team by setting clear expectations, providing feedback, and fostering a culture of engagement, growth, and accountability.
• Oversee workload planning, performance management, and team operations to align resources with business objectives.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.

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.
• 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.
• 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 solutions for clients.

Education

• A bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, business administration, or equivalent relevant experience is required.
• Project management certification or ability to achieve in 6 months.

Preferred Experience

• Willing to travel for multiple consecutive days and sometimes on weekends, up to 20% annually.
• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in environmental engineering (or equivalent engineering) with 15+ years of consulting, design, construction, and operations/maintenance/monitoring experience.
• Master of Science (MS) degree in environmental engineering (or equivalent engineering) preferred.
• Experience working on environmental construction services projects, including remediation, mitigation, restoration, closure, pilot testing, modifications/upgrades, or smaller water/wastewater construction efforts.
• Remediation experience to include in-ground and above-ground treatment process solutions and related water resource and waste management experience.
• Experience delivering projects using collaborative at-risk delivery models such as design-build, EPC, CMAR, and progressive versions thereof.
• Ability to partner across business units, client service teams, technical practices, shared services, and external subcontractor/supplier partners.
• Experience contributing to business development, proposal development, presentations, client engagement, and cross-selling of project delivery or construction services.
• Experience with procurement, cost estimating, pre-construction planning, subcontractor coordination, schedule development, and resource planning.
• Demonstrated ability to support team development, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and scalable project delivery practices.

Salary Range

The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• Location A: $144,000 - $196,000
• Location B: $158,000 - $216,000
• Location C: $172,000 - $236,000

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success.
• Medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance.
• 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.