Location: Andover,MA, USA
Brown and Caldwell is currently seeking a Senior Staff Project Manager to join our growing team. The selected individual will utilize their knowledge of project delivery, business expertise, and metrics, as well as project processes, resources, and techniques to effectively plan, execute, monitor, and deliver quality to our clients. The ideal candidate should possess strong interpersonal and personal effectiveness skills. The success of our project delivery teams begins with the leadership of the project manager. Consequently, our ideal candidate will exhibit leadership qualities, exceptional communication skills, a strong organizational aptitude, problem-solving abilities, and the capacity to motivate and manage diverse teams and develop new and existing clients.
Detailed Description:
We are seeking a Senior Staff Project Manager with experience leading, managing, empowering, and overseeing projects and projects teams in delivering complete, quality projects that meet objectives and business performance goals for our clients and BC. The selected individual will manage projects for Retail, Transportation and Waste sector clients.
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
* Project team leadership expectations:
* Set direction - Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team by providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve.
* Communicate - Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
* Support Team Motivation- Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating success.
* Establish Trust - Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency
* Create a safe environment - Support and assist in providing atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
* Embrace thought and experience diversity - Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
* Develop team members - Support team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring.
Execution of BC's project delivery requirements:
* Scope: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Ensure accurate scope with clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
* Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules, ensuring timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of mitigation measures.
* Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule. to ensure financial success of the project.
* Quality Management: Create and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality reviews and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.
* Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks. Identifies and recommends change, in collaboration with project team, prepares the scope and budget for the change, and gains client endorsement and approval for the change to minimize financial and execution risk to BC.
* Risk Management: Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle. Identifies and escalates risks, collaborates with team to prepare mitigation strategies for each risk, monetization of each risk, and updates the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a project.
* Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety.
* Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics - Support achievement of project goals related to scope, schedule, budget and quality. Monitor profitability through routine earned value analysis and compliance, business revenue forecasting and timely invoicing.
* Client Service and Sales/Marketing Support and Engagement - Ability to build successful relationships with Clients, while collaborating with client service managers and project teams to assess client satisfaction. Monitor and share clients' critical success factors to ensure project success and client satisfaction.
Sr. Staff Project Manager:
Required Skills and Experience:
* BS degree in Engineering or Science field or other related field
* 4+ years of experience in Project Management with progressively increasing responsibility.
Specifically:
* Typical experience with managing project scopes (or project portfolio) in the minimum range of $25,000 - $100,000
* Competency in development and monitoring of simple project schedules
* Competency in development and monitoring of simple project budgets
* Experience with risk management concepts
* Ability to demonstrate strong project management and leadership skills through previous experience, including change management, risk management, quality management and conflict resolution.
* Valid driver's license and good driving record required
* Must be proficient in using standard computer programs (MS Word, MS Teams, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Outlook) required
* Must be proficient in schedule development and management utilizing MS Project Scheduling tools and software.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
* Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)
* Strong business acumen, including cash flow, billings, profitability and project management best practices.
* Familiarity with risk management concepts
* Previous supervisory or mentoring experience
Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee's primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Location A: $88,000 - $120,000
Location B: $97,000 - $132,000
You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter.
Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.
About Brown and Caldwell
Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction firm with 50 offices and 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice-to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com
This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.
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