CDM Smith ยท 4 months ago
Senior Project Manager - Water/Wastewater Services
California - Los Angeles
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$137K/yr - $240K/yr
10+ years expCDM Smith is growing in Southern California and has a new opening for a Senior Project Manager - Water Services. The role involves managing municipal water or wastewater services projects, overseeing project development, budget management, and client relationships to ensure successful project execution and profitability.
Civil Engineering
No H1B
Responsibilities
Managing and serving as the lead Project Manager on municipal water or wastewater services projects in Southern California
Project Development Design: Creating project definitions, schedules, budgets and objectives for projects using lessons learned. Preparing detailed statements of work with associated work breakdown structures and gain concurrence and approval from internal and external stakeholders regarding various project aspects. Assessing potential project risk and outline risk mitigation solutions. Ensuring adherence to company and project management policies, procedures, and practices
Billing and Budget Management: Managing project costs and being responsible for ensuring profitability. Identifying, quantifying, and communicating risk (time and cost). Creating and reviewing timely client billings with internal billing support. Responsible for ensuring timely client payment and follows up on outstanding client invoices to obtain payment. Reviewing and approving subcontractor/vendor invoices to ensure timely payment to outside resources
Scope Management, Technical Execution and Deliverables Management: Performing ongoing review of project status. On an ongoing basis, monitoring project risks; identifying possible risks and recommending and implementing risk mitigation solutions; escalating as appropriate. Managing project change using change management protocols; determining appropriate changes or alternate paths based upon performance and metrics. Working in conjunction with team members and internal and external stakeholders to manage changes to requirements and schedule of the project. Ensuring proper review of project scope by safety managers and proper implementation of safety plans. Providing timely response to audit corrective actions identified by external or internal audits. Planning and conducting work requiring judgment in the independent evaluation, selection, and application of standard engineering or construction techniques, procedures, and criteria. Providing guidance to drafters/designers, engineers, craft workers, other project team members, contractors or subcontractors
Resource Management and Leadership: Developing and implementing project resource plan and manage the staffing of assigned projects. Determining and coordinating the proper staffing within the project including identification of outside resources needed (subs/vendors) and ensure procurement processes are followed. Clearly communicating project deadlines, assignments and objectives to project team members. Assigning work and provide direction to project staff with regard to timeliness and completion of project objectives. Coaching project staff and provide feedback to staff and to project staff's supervisors on project performance; escalating any performance issues to appropriate management and human resources
Client Service Management and Sales Collaboration: Building, maintaining and managing strong client relationships. Ensuring client satisfaction by delivering quality, on-time project outcomes as a result of good planning and organizational skills; manage client expectations. Identifying opportunities for change orders and repeat business though pre-eminent project execution and developed client relationships. Working collaboratively with sales leaders to evaluate potential new work and supports the scoping and costing effort
Participation in professional societies relevant to the industry
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
10 years of related experience
PMP (PMI), CCM or DBIA certification is required (within 12 months of hire or promotion onto the Approved Project Manager list)
Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands
Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
Preferred
Prior experience managing municipal wastewater treatment and / or conveyance projects in Southern California greater than $1M
PE licensure strongly preferred
Company
CDM Smith
Louis Perry Group (now CDM Smith) is a privately owned engineering and construction firm providing legendary client service and smart solutions in water, environment, transportation, energy and facilities.
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Karen Thomas, PHR
Human Resources Business Partner
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