Project Manager IV

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Job Description

CDM Smith currently has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager/Seller-Doer with previous experience selling and managing municipal water services projects to join our Western Canada group. In this position, your primary role will be to lead the sales and successful delivery of engineering projects for our clients in the following areas of practice: facility planning, drinking water and wastewater treatment, biosolids, pump stations, pipelines, and water and sewer systems.

CDM Smith’s Global Delivery Excellence Framework provides project managers with best-in-class tools and policies that streamline scope, schedule, and financial management. Project managers are also provided with project control specialists, contract administrators, and quality management support throughout the project planning, delivery, and closeout lifecycle. Senior Project Managers and Sales Leader's key performance indicators include revenue managed, profit delivered, cash flow, business development, proposals, on-time delivery, quality management system compliance, and individual utilization.

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As a member of this team, you would contribute to CDM Smith's mission by:

• Managing and serving as the lead Project Manager for water, wastewater, stormwater, conveyance, and general municipal engineering projects.

• Collaborate with sales teams to pre-position for upcoming projects and create proposals in response to RFPs

• Meet with current and potential future clients to review their current and future project needs.

• Providing technical guidance, senior leadership, and mentoring engineering staff to enhance our water services design capabilities.

• Being responsible for planning and execution of scope, schedule and budget for projects managed.

• Completing Quality Assurance/Quality Control reviews of key deliverables.

• Assisting Client Service Leaders with technical marketing by meeting with clients in the region.

• Participation in professional societies relevant to the industry.

• Building and maintaining positive working relationships with key decision makers in our clients’ organizations.

• Perform technical engineering project work.

• Providing excellent client service that generates repeat business.

• Supporting proposal development and participating in interviews for new projects you will help deliver.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.

• 13 years of related experience. PMP (PMI), CCM or DBIA certification is required (within 12 months of hire or promotion onto the Approved Project Manager list).

• Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands.

• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• P.Eng certification

• Prior experience managing municipal water and wastewater treatment and/or conveyance projects in British Columbia greater than $1m.

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