Senior Project Manager - Water Business Details | Family of Companies

Senior Project Manager - Water Business

Date:
Nov 6, 2025

Location:

Virginia Beach, VA, US

Company:
Black & Veatch Family of Companies

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As an employee‑owned company, our people are Black & Veatch. We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity’s biggest challenges in an ever‑evolving world. With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, we are building a world of difference.

Recognized by Glassdoor as a 2023 Top 100 place to work, Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1. Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life.

Black & Veatch is a leading employee‑owned global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company. Consistently recognized as “Best Companies to Work For” and “Best Employers for Diversity.” One of the largest Water & Wastewater Civil Design Firms with 8,300+ employees. Our revenues exceed $3 billion.

The Project Manager position is a high‑profile leadership role at Black & Veatch. In this capacity, you will serve as part of the Water / Wastewater business leadership team. As part of the Virginia Beach collaborative team, you will manage the successful delivery of water‑related infrastructure projects in the multi‑million‑dollar range.

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. By joining our market sector, you will provide infrastructure for community benefit.

This team partners with our customers to align their people, processes, technologies, and data analytics in the face of industry transformation. We help our customers modernize water infrastructure, optimize asset use, meet performance goals, reduce costs, and mitigate risk no matter where the water industry goes next. This team is ranked in the top 10 by ENR for Water Design Firms in Water Supply and Sewer Waste and other water‑related rankings.

• Lead team efforts for marketing
• Strategy development
• Prospect identification, proposal development, 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, become involved 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 market footprint

• Oversee engineering manager(s)
• Develop project performance goals
• Account for implementation
• Actively involve internal project team and owner 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 projects

• Team development, mentoring and coaching on performance improvement
• Recommend training, promotion of assigned professionals and identify new candidates to expand the team

• 15+ years of active water/wastewater experience with demonstrated leadership experience in the Virginia Beach market
• Professional Engineering License;
  Bachelor’s Degree in technical discipline
• Understanding of budgets and financial metrics
• Contract negotiation skill including…