Engineering Project Manager II - Water Services Group

Engineering Project Manager II - Water Services Group

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Join our dynamic team as a Water Project Manager and play a key role in advancing innovative solutions to address critical water challenges for Water Reclamation, Drinking Water, Conveyance and Distribution Systems. In this position, you will oversee the planning, execution, and optimization of water projects, ensuring they meet both community needs and environmental standards. Bring your expertise in project management, engineering, and environmental stewardship to drive success in transforming water systems and enhancing our region's water infrastructure.

• Creates project definitions, schedules, budgets and objectives for projects. Prepares detailed statements of work with associated work breakdown structures and gains concurrence and approval from internal and external stakeholders regarding various project aspects.
• Assesses potential project risk and outlines risk mitigation solutions. Ensures adherence to company and project management policies, procedures and practices.
• Manages project costs and is responsible for ensuring profitability. Identifies, quantifies and communicates residual risk (time and cost).
• Creates and reviews timely client billings with internal billing support. Responsible for ensuring timely client payment and follows up on outstanding client invoices to obtain payment. Reviews and approves subcontractor/vendor invoices to ensure timely payment to outside resources.
• Performs ongoing review of project status. On an ongoing basis, monitors project risks; identifies possible risks and recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions; escalates as appropriate.
• Manages project change using change management protocols; determines appropriate changes or alternate paths based upon performance and metrics. Works in conjunction with team members and stakeholders to manage changes to requirements and schedule of the project.
• Ensures proper review of project scope by safety managers and proper implementation of safety plans. Provides timely response to audit corrective actions identified by external or internal audits.
• Plans and conducts work requiring judgment in the independent evaluation, selection, and application of standard engineering or construction techniques, procedures, and criteria. Provides guidance to drafters/designers, engineers, craft workers, other project team members, contractors or subcontractors.
• Develops and implements project resource plans and manages the staffing of assigned projects. Determines and coordinates the proper staffing within the project including identification of outside resources needed (subs/vendors) and ensures procurement processes are followed.
• Clearly communicates project deadlines, assignments and objectives to project team members. Assigns work and provides direction to project staff with regard to timeliness and completion of project objectives.
• Coaches project staff and provides feedback to staff and to project staff's supervisors on project performance; escalates…