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
Responsibilities include the following for delivering day-to-day operations for
small projects:
Project team leadership expectations:
Set direction: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes,
schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team by providing clarity
on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made,
development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the
client is trying to achieve.
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. Develop 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 to provide timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and
assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures if needed.
Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project
budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set project up for financial
success. Manage budget on project to meet planned project performance
metrics.
Quality Management: Create implement and monitor quality management plans
and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate
our standards and quality review processes and collaborate with team
members to contribute to quality.
Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to
mitigate risks. Identify and recommend change management, in
collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the
change order, and gain client endorsement and approval for the change to
minimize financial and execution risk to BC.
Risk Management: Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation
strategies and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout
the project lifecycle. Identify and escalate risks, collaborate with teams
to prepare mitigation strategies for each risk, monetization of each risk,
and update the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a
project.
Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client
requirements for health and safety. Lead development and implementation of
health and safety plans per the project specific requirements.
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.
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 for project success and client
satisfaction.
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. Specifically:
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.
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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: $37.50 - $51.00
Location B: $40.80 - $55.80
Location C: $44.70 - $61.10
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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
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benefits.
About Brown and Caldwell
Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service
environmental engineering and construction services firm with 50 offices and
over 2,100 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,
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This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a
pre-employment drug test.
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