[Hiring] Water Resources Project Manager @Brown and Caldwell

Role Description

The Project Management role involves planning, executing, and overseeing projects associated with stormwater, water resources, and water/wastewater engineering. The projects should be completed on time and within budget, while meeting all quality standards and health and safety requirements. The role works closely with cross-functional teams to define project scope, set objectives, allocate resources, and develop detailed project plans. The role monitors progress, manages risks and change, resolves challenges, and communicates with stakeholders to provide regular updates. The role focuses on further developing essential project management techniques and an understanding of the company's product/services. The role manages small projects and collaborates with team members on larger or moderately complex projects. Working under clearly defined guidelines and supervision, the role leads small projects, so that each one is completed within the set scope, schedule and budget.

This position is part-time (20-29 hours/week) and candidates must live in New England but may work remotely. Travel is required (~25% of the time) to client sites within the New England region.

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 successes.
  • Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
  • Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected, and considered.
• 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 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.
  • Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks.
  • Risk Management: Identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies, and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation.
  • 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.
• Client Service and Sales/Marketing Support and Engagement: Ability to build successful relationships with Clients.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.

Skills and Competencies

• Working knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including project planning, budget management, and risk management.
• Foundational understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques, and processes.
• Familiarity with contract management and client service.
• Basic business acumen with understanding of how individual projects fit into larger organizational goals.
• Good communication and client services skills.
• Good team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships.

Experience

• Typically, a minimum of 2 years of project management or relevant task management experience successfully contributing to projects of varying complexity with progressively increasing responsibility.
• Competency in development and monitoring of simple project schedules.
• Competency in development and monitoring of simple project budgets.
• Introductory experience with risk management concepts.
• Experience operating in a team environment.

Education

• A bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, or business administration, or equivalent relevant experience is required.

Salary Range

• Location A: $37.50 - $51.00
• Location B: $40.80 - $55.80
• Location C: $44.70 - $61.10

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.