Project Manager - Water Business Details | Family of Companies

Project Manager - Water Business

Date:
Nov 6, 2025

Location:

Phoenix, AZ, US;
Tucson, AZ, US

Company:
Black & Veatch Family of Companies

Opportunity Type: Staff

Relocation eligible: Yes

Full time/Part time: Full-Time

Project Only Hire: No

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

As the Project Manager
, you will have the opportunity to:

• Manage all aspects of small Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC)/Service projects, including risk to cost, schedule, and quality.
• Be responsible for day‑to‑day successful execution of contracted engineering, procurement, and construction scope in performance, financial metrics, planning, schedule, quality, contractual compliance, safety, and client satisfaction.
• Provide for successful staffing of the project.
• Manage and lead small teams of multi‑discipline professionals.
• Coordinate and integrate activities across engineering, procurement, construction, and startup elements of the project team, including third party companies.

Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.

Black & Veatch’s Governments & Communities focuses on specific infrastructure needs of municipalities, state and local governments, and specialized physical and digital infrastructure solutions for government and federal agencies.

This team partners with customers to modernize water infrastructure, optimize asset use, meet performance goals, reduce costs, and mitigate risk.

• 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 overall project performance.

• External focus to interact with assigned clients, promote Black & Veatch through client and community activities.
• Support development of overall market business plan, market strategies, client engagement strategies, and leverage technical and management resources.

• 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 performance and commercial management of projects including budgeting, invoicing, and payments; lead project performance reviews for assigned project(s).

• Team development, mentoring and coaching on performance improvement.
• Recommendations for training and promotion; identification and development of new candidates to expand the team.

Acts as a project manager; among responsibilities is management of a project team.

• 15+ years of active water/wastewater experience with demonstrated leadership experience in the Phoenix market.
• Professional Engineering License;
  Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline.
• Understanding of budgets and financial metrics.
• Contract negotiation skill including knowledge of terms, risks, pricing, and payment terms.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• All applicants must complete pre‑employment onboarding requirements (background check, drug screen, motor vehicle records search, etc.).

PMT:
Project Management

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