Construction Project Manager - Water/Wastewater
CDM Smith
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Water/Wastewater Project Manager to lead and oversee infrastructure projects related to water distribution, wastewater collection, and treatment systems. The ideal candidate will be responsible for project planning, budgeting, design, and construction management, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations and safety standards.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage the planning, design, and execution of water and wastewater projects, ensuring timely and budget-conscious delivery.
Coordinate with engineers, contractors, government agencies, and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Conduct feasibility studies, risk assessments, and cost analyses to optimize project efficiency.
Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental and safety regulations.
Oversee procurement processes, contracts, and construction activities to maintain quality and efficiency.
Prepare and review technical reports, permits, and documentation required for regulatory approvals.
Monitor project progress, address challenges, and provide technical guidance as needed.
Develop and maintain strong client relationships, ensuring customer satisfaction and business development opportunities.
Implement sustainable and innovative engineering solutions for water and wastewater systems.
Creates project definitions, schedules, budgets and objectives for projects. Prepares detailed statements of work with associated work breakdown structures and gains concurrence and approval from internal and external stakeholders regarding various project aspects. Assesses potential project risk and outlines risk mitigation solutions. Ensures adherence to company and project management policies, procedures and practices. Manages project costs and is responsible for ensuring profitability. Identifies, quantifies, and communicates residual risk (time and cost). Creates and reviews timely client billings with internal billing support. Responsible for ensuring timely client payment and follows up on outstanding client invoices to obtain payment. Reviews and approves subcontractor/vendor invoices to ensure timely payment to outside resources. Performs ongoing review of project status. On an ongoing basis, monitors project risks; identifies possible risks and recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions; escalates as appropriate. Manages project change using change management protocols; determines appropriate changes or alternate paths based upon performance and metrics. Works in conjunction with team members and stakeholders to manage changes to requirements and schedule of the project. Ensures proper review of project scope by safety managers and proper implementation of safety plans. Provides timely response to audit corrective actions identified by external or internal audits. Plans and conducts work requiring judgment in the independent evaluation, selection, and application of standard engineering or construction techniques, procedures, and criteria. Provides guidance to drafters/designers, engineers, craft workers, other project team members, contractors or subcontractors. Develops and implements project resource plan and manages the staffing of assigned projects. Determines and coordinates the proper staffing within the project including identification of outside resources needed (subs/vendors) and ensures procurement processes are followed. Clearly communicates project deadlines, assignments and objectives to project team members. Assigns work and provides direction to project staff with regard to timeliness and completion of project objectives. Coaches project staff and provides feedback to staff and to project staff's supervisors on project performance; escalates any performance issues to appropriate management and human resources. Builds, maintains and manages strong client relationships. Ensures client satisfaction by delivering quality, on-time project outcomes as a result of good planning and organizational skills; manages client expectations. Performs other duties as required.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage the planning, design, and execution of water and wastewater projects, ensuring timely and budget-conscious delivery.
Coordinate with engineers, contractors, government agencies, and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Conduct feasibility studies, risk assessments, and cost analyses to optimize project efficiency.
Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental and safety regulations.
Oversee procurement processes, contracts, and construction activities to maintain quality and efficiency.
Prepare and review technical reports, permits, and documentation required for regulatory approvals.
Monitor project progress, address challenges, and provide technical guidance as needed.
Develop and maintain strong client relationships, ensuring customer satisfaction and business development opportunities.
Implement sustainable and innovative engineering solutions for water and wastewater systems.
Creates project definitions, schedules, budgets and objectives for projects. Prepares detailed statements of work with associated work breakdown structures and gains concurrence and approval from internal and external stakeholders regarding various project aspects. Assesses potential project risk and outlines risk mitigation solutions. Ensures adherence to company and project management policies, procedures and practices. Manages project costs and is responsible for ensuring profitability. Identifies, quantifies, and communicates residual risk (time and cost). Creates and reviews timely client billings with internal billing support. Responsible for ensuring timely client payment and follows up on outstanding client invoices to obtain payment. Reviews and approves subcontractor/vendor invoices to ensure timely payment to outside resources. Performs ongoing review of project status. On an ongoing basis, monitors project risks; identifies possible risks and recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions; escalates as appropriate. Manages project change using change management protocols; determines appropriate changes or alternate paths based upon performance and metrics. Works in conjunction with team members and stakeholders to manage changes to requirements and schedule of the project. Ensures proper review of project scope by safety managers and proper implementation of safety plans. Provides timely response to audit corrective actions identified by external or internal audits. Plans and conducts work requiring judgment in the independent evaluation, selection, and application of standard engineering or construction techniques, procedures, and criteria. Provides guidance to drafters/designers, engineers, craft workers, other project team members, contractors or subcontractors. Develops and implements project resource plan and manages the staffing of assigned projects. Determines and coordinates the proper staffing within the project including identification of outside resources needed (subs/vendors) and ensures procurement processes are followed. Clearly communicates project deadlines, assignments and objectives to project team members. Assigns work and provides direction to project staff with regard to timeliness and completion of project objectives. Coaches project staff and provides feedback to staff and to project staff's supervisors on project performance; escalates any performance issues to appropriate management and human resources. Builds, maintains and manages strong client relationships. Ensures client satisfaction by delivering quality, on-time project outcomes as a result of good planning and organizational skills; manages client expectations. Performs other duties as required.
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