Water Resources Project Manager

Brown and Caldwell is currently looking for a Water Resources Project Manager to join our growing team in Portland, Oregon. When you join Brown and Caldwell, you will enjoy a unique and welcoming culture. You will find that we offer a non-hierarchical, collaborative, and supportive environment, allowing you to do your best work. You will be trusted and supported to produce quality work by our project managers and external clients and given the flexibility to manage your own schedule to achieve this. The work we do is interesting, challenging and wide-ranging in nature, and so is our client base.

Remote from Oregon / SW Washington allowed.

Detailed Description

In this role, successful candidates will support stormwater planning and municipal regulatory compliance related project work across the state of Oregon as well as provide occasional support for projects in Washington and Idaho.

The selected individual will utilize their knowledge of project delivery, business expertise, and metrics, as well as project processes, resources, and techniques to effectively plan, execute, monitor, and deliver quality to our clients. The ideal candidate should possess strong interpersonal skills. The success of our project delivery teams begins with the leadership of the project manager. Consequently, our perfect candidate will exhibit leadership qualities, exceptional communication skills, a strong organizational aptitude, problem-solving abilities, the capacity to motivate and manage diverse teams, and a drive to support new and existing clients.

Technical work areas might include:

• Provide compliance support to municipal clients with respect to National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permits and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) requirements under the Clean Water Act.
• Prepare written plans, reports, presentations, and other technical documentation to describe programs, operating procedures, technical work, analyses and recommendations.
• Review stormwater management plans, code, ordinances, standard operating procedures and/or design manuals to assess compliance with Department of Environmental Quality requirements.
• Conduct regional and national research regarding stormwater program compliance options.
• Conduct work towards the development of municipal stormwater design standards manuals.
• Conduct master planning related tasks for municipal stormwater utilities such as the development of water quality and water capacity related capital improvement projects.
• Direct and/or conduct GIS data analysis and mapping for reports and presentations.
• Direct and/or conduct hydrologic/hydraulic modelling of municipal storm drainage systems.
• Apply software tools for the sizing of stormwater quality and quantity management facilities.
• Participate in client and internal meetings to advance project work.
• Occasionally travel to project sites for data collection and client meetings.
• Delegate and oversee the work of technical staff and engineers.
• Assist with and lead business development efforts including positioning, pursuits, and Client management services.
• Support the development of strategies for the water resources market sector in the Northwest.
• Lead master planning efforts in water resources, including stormwater master plans and flood studies.
• Prepare written reports and technical memorandums to document analyses and recommendations.
• Participate in office work groups and organizations to benefit the company’s knowledge of issues and to understand client needs.

Required Skills and Experience:

• M.S. or B.S. degree in engineering with a minimum of 8 years of related experience in the water resources field.
• P.E. or ability to obtain a P.E in the state of Oregon.
• Experience managing and delivering stormwater-related planning and design projects in the role as a project manager.
• Familiarity with regulations driving stormwater management and permitting.
• GIS training and/or experience.
• Strong written communication skills and experience producing technical reports.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Understanding of, and ability to use Microsoft Excel.
• Successful track record in managing and tracking project budgets.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience leading or supporting competitive sales efforts with municipal clients.
• Experience with H/H modeling of surface water hydrology and hydraulics, including rainfall-runoff, open channel, and collection system hydraulics.
• Experience with SWMM modeling platforms.
• Flexibility to work in other service areas such as infrastructure, wastewater, and/or potable water.
• Experience as a planner in the fields of wastewater or drinking water.

PM Expectations - Project team leadership:

• Set direction – Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets, and success factors. Assist the team in providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client trying to achieve are important components to setting team direction.
• Communicate – Help establish effective communication methods for team meetings, technical/design decisions, and client interactions. Share how communications will be delivered, this includes team standups, technical/design decisions, client changes, etc.
• 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 atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
• Embrace thought and experience diversity – Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
• Develop team members – Support team development by contributing to continuous learning and skill development.

PM Expectations - Execution of BC’s project delivery requirements:

• Scope: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Ensure accurate scope with clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
• Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules, ensuring timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of mitigation measures.
• Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule. Support and assist on alignment of the project budget to both the project scope and schedule to ensure financial success of the project.
• Quality Management: Create and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality reviews and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.
• Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks. Identify and recommend changes, in collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the changes, and gain client endorsement and approval for the change.
• Risk Management: Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and ongoing risk monitoring throughout the project lifecycle. Identify and escalate risks, collaborate with team to prepare mitigation strategies for each risk, monetize of each risk, and update the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a project.
• Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics – Support achievement of project goals related to scope, schedule, budget and quality. Monitor financial sustainability through routine earned value analysis and compliance, business revenue forecasting and timely invoicing.
• Client Service and Sales/Marketing Support and Engagement – Ability to build successful relationships with Clients, while collaborating with client service managers and project teams to assess client satisfaction. Monitor and share clients’ critical success factors to ensure project success and client satisfaction.

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: $106,000 - $145,000

You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter.

Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an 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. Click here to see our full list of benefits.

About Brown and Caldwell

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction services firm with 52 offices and over 1,900 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice—to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com

This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.

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