About this role
- The Project Manager - Water/Wastewater is accountable for the week-to-week execution and management of assigned projects such as scope, schedule, budget and quality.
- Responsibilities include leading a production team, coordinating with subcontractors, permitting, and ensuring on time deliverables.
- The PM is the first line of communication and accountable point of contact for clients.
- Responsible for overall project production, delivery, and routine client updates.
- Build and maintain the project plan incorporating scope, schedule, and budget.
- Responsible for assigned contract/Extra Work Authorization (EWA) scope and fee preparation and negotiation with client.
- Create and maintain Smartsheet and ensure alignment with financial reporting (Estimated Date of Task Completion, Overall Schedule Milestones, Extra Work Authorizations – EWAs, etc.).
- Lead a production team through weekly project reviews, task assignments, as well as coaching and mentoring; ensure project coordination; keeps the team productive and efficient.
- Assists in the development of plans, specifications, reports and cost estimates for a variety of water/wastewater and stormwater projects involving transmission, distribution, collection, treatment, storage, utility master planning, permitting and various engineering tasks.
- Assists in the design of hydraulic modeling including advanced treatment and storage design along with water and sewer pumping systems, hydraulic water distribution modeling and stormwater modeling.
- Track planned labor budget vs actual labor burn weekly; corrects variances; monitors labor charges to appropriate phases/tasks through project time review and identifies scope creep and promptly proposes EWA’s and / or ETC’s.
- Serves as assigned client’s day-to-day contact; escalates strategic items to Program Manager (pricing, scope, disputes); supports upsell / cross-sell conversations; coordinates with Project Financial Analysts (PFA) and Project Coordinators (PC).
- Accountable for project QA/QC.
- Enforces safety and Delegation of Authority (DOA); maintains project files / records; captures lessons learned.
- Perform other duties as assigned.