Garver · 5 hours ago
Senior Project Manager - Water/Wastewater
Kansas City, MO
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expGarver is an employee-owned engineering firm focused on water and wastewater services, seeking a Senior Project Manager for their Greater Kansas City Metropolitan area portfolio. The role involves leading business planning and managing diverse water projects while developing client relationships and ensuring project delivery through all phases.
Civil Engineering
Responsibilities
Business planning and development activities
Client service management
Pursuit planning
Support proposal development efforts
Scope, fee, and contract development services
Program Owner’s Advisor (OA) services
Oversee production of deliverables, including: Complete detailed design calculations, drawings, and specifications
Scheduling, management and coordination of support disciplines and subconsultants
Facilitate stakeholder engagement activities
Support permitting approval with regulatory agencies
Manage quality assurance and risk management
Facilitate workshops with clients
Transition to construction phase (both alternative delivery and design-bid-build)
Contractor pre-qualification and bid evaluation
Participate in facilitated teaming activities
Technical review of submittals and RFIs
Construction phase engineering support
Scheduling, management and coordination of support disciplines and subconsultants
Progress tracking and communications
Transition to integration phase
Manage owner training program
Equipment, instrument, and device checkout and performance validation
Control system and HMI integration
Scheduling, management and coordination of support disciplines and subconsultants
Contract closeout
Display technical competency of water or wastewater engineering
Develop and manage detailed project delivery assumption, scope of work, level of effort, and associated man-hour estimates
Manage and delegate scope, budget, and schedule for a team of multi-disciplined (civil, process, structural, mechanical, electrical, and I&C) project engineers, design engineers, and CAD Technicians in the development of various Water Business Line projects
Manage and delegate multiple projects concurrently
Be responsible for time management and work product quality
Keep accurate and up-to-date project accounting on all assigned projects
Conduct written and oral project reporting for clients and Team Leader. Reporting will include project design status, upcoming milestones, project accounting and billing, percent completes, progress reports, etc
Prepare and execute Quality Assurance and Quality Control Plans
Lead internal and external project workshops
Be an active learner responsible for continuing education and learning based on project needs, as well as overall needs of the team
Construction management, excluding construction observation, for local projects
Qualification
Required
10 or more years of similar technical experience with no less than three years' experience in project/team leadership
Registered as a Professional Engineer (PE) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or the ability to obtain within a year
Previous experience in responsible charge of planning, design, and implementation of water facilities and infrastructure projects
Strong understanding of the multi-disciplined practices (i.e. process, surveying, geotechnical, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control) required for the planning, design, and implementation of water facilities and infrastructure projects
Strong communication skills
Proficient with MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Project and Outlook
Preferred
Master's degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering
ENV SP Certification or ability and willingness to obtain
Benefits
Company-paid professional memberships
Company support for industry licenses and continuing education opportunities
Highly competitive salary packages
Attractive benefits
Comprehensive wellness program
Company
Garver
Garver operates as a multi-disciplined engineering, planning, and environmental services company.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Garver has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (10)
2024 (11)
2023 (7)
2022 (9)
2021 (3)
2020 (7)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
B
Brock Hoskins
President and CEO
John Shaw
Chief Human Resources Officer
Recent News
Texas Department of Transportation
2025-11-02
Talk Business & Politics
2025-10-10
Talk Business & Politics
2025-09-23
Company data provided by crunchbase