Water​/Wastewater Project Manager; CM

Creighton Manning Engineering and Surveying, a GAI Company, is seeking a Project Manager with 10+ years of experience in water/wastewater engineering to join our talented and energetic team in Upstate New York. The role offers flexibility to work out of Albany, Poughkeepsie, Syracuse, or White Plains. This is an opportunity to build the water/wastewater business in New York with existing clients and GAI’s water/wastewater team.

Ideal candidates have planning, design, permitting, and construction experience and client relationships in the New York municipal water/wastewater market. The successful candidate will be eligible for a sign‑on bonus and can grow into a leadership position as the New York Water Division expands.

• Independently perform and guide multi‑discipline teams on the completion of water and wastewater planning, evaluation, design, and construction projects related to collection, conveyance, and distribution systems, pump stations, storage and treatment facilities, and asset upgrade/rehabilitation.
• Plan and manage projects from inception through construction and start‑up, including client coordination, team chartering, scope, schedule and budget development and management, safety, quality assurance/quality control, project profitability, and staff workload coordination.
• Provide technical execution and oversight of design projects including schematic/preliminary design, design development, final design, specifications, permitting, construction contract document production, bid‑phase services, and construction‑phase services.
• Lead water/wastewater consulting tasks, including flow projections, hydraulic modeling, master planning, detailed design calculations, alternative analysis and selection, cost estimating, equipment selection, and project prioritization.
• Hire, mentor and develop junior staff for both technical and project management knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Contribute to business development activities, including opportunity identification, proposal development, interviews/presentations, and client relationship cultivation.
• Serve as a primary doer/seller for the New York Water Division, growing into a "go‑to" Creighton Manning representative to clients, key contractors and design partners, professional organizations, and the communities we serve.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in the municipal water/wastewater market involving master planning, hydraulic modeling, technical reports, design of distribution and conveyance systems (including pipelines in public rights‑of‑way), treatment process/facility design, regulatory permitting, services during construction, and/or other technical services.
• Minimum 2 years of experience serving as a Project Manager leading and directing multi‑discipline project teams, both internally and externally, with a track record of delivering on time and on budget while meeting or exceeding client expectations.
• Excellent technical writing, verbal communication, and leadership skills working in a dynamic team environment.
• Sense of urgency and self‑initiative to meet deadlines and develop new business opportunities.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, AutoCAD/Civil 3D, ArcGIS, and industry hydraulic and design modeling software.
• Integrates solutions to complex problems across specialty areas.
• Demonstrates leadership.

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years serving in an engineer‑of‑record capacity for water and/or wastewater projects.
• Experience with the delivery of cross‑market projects.
• Trenchless pipeline design, permitting, and construction experience.
• Facility and pipeline condition assessment field and data management experience.
• Successful client management/business development experience in Upstate New York.

Albany/Syracuse – $55/hour – $68/hour

Poughkeepsie – $59/hour – $73/hour

Westchester – White Plains – $63/hour – $78/hour

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