Project Manager - Water Business Details | Family of Companies

Project Manager - Water Business

Date:
Oct 2, 2025

Location:

Columbus, OH, US

Company:
Black & Veatch Family of Companies

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Company : Black & Veatch Corporation

Req  : 106467

Opportunity Type : Staff

Relocation eligible : Yes

Full time/Part time : Full-Time

Project Only Hire : No

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

Black & Veatch is a leading employee-owned global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company. Recognized as a top employer, the firm delivers water and wastewater infrastructure solutions through a multi-disciplinary team.

The Project Manager position is a high-profile leadership role within the Water / Wastewater business. Based in the Columbus, Ohio collaborative team, the role is responsible for the successful delivery of water-related infrastructure projects in the multi-million-dollar range.

The Team

Governments & Communities focuses on infrastructure needs of municipalities, state and local governments, and specialized physical and digital infrastructure solutions for government and federal agencies. The team helps modernize water infrastructure, optimize asset use, meet performance goals, reduce costs, and mitigate risk. The team is ranked in the top 10 by ENR for Water Design Firms in Water Supply and Sewer Waste and other water-related rankings.

Be part of a team that has delivered large-scale projects such as the Butler Water Reclamation Facility.

Business development:

• Leading team efforts for marketing
• Strategy development
• Prospect identification, proposal development, proposal preparation, client presentations, project budgeting and contracting for successful opportunities
• Accountable for new business objectives and for overall project performance

Project management:

• External focus to interact with assigned clients, participate in client activities and promote Black & Veatch through client and community activities
• Support development of the overall market business plan, market strategies, client engagement strategies and leverage other Black & Veatch technical and management resources to advance Black & Veatch’s market footprint

Project execution:

• Oversight of engineering manager(s)
• Development of project performance goals
• Accountability for implementation
• Active involvement with internal project team and owner project representatives on project activities
• Perform or assist with the performance and commercial management of projects including budgeting, invoicing, and payments; lead project performance reviews for assigned project(s)

Staff management:

• Team development, mentoring and coaching on performance improvement
• Recommendations for training and promotion of assigned professionals as well as identification and development of new candidates to expand the Black & Veatch team

Management Responsibilities

Acts as a project manager. Among responsibilities is management of a project team. The individual comprising this team may vary by project.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years business development and project management experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in technical discipline
• Professional Engineering License
• Proven technical understanding of Wastewater and Water markets, including drivers and general trends.
• Strong sales traits, including tenacity and competitiveness.
• Strong inter-personal skills. Adept at working in a team environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including proposal and presentations skills.
• Ability to interface with diverse personalities. Ability to think strategically and create persuasive message.
• Contract negotiating skills including knowledge of terms, risks, pricing, and payment terms.
• Und…