The Opportunity
Our client is a leading employee-owned global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company. Consistently recognized as "Best Companies to Work For" and "Best Employers for Diversity." One of the biggest Water & Wastewater Civil Design Firms in the USA.
The Senior Project Manager position is a high-profile leadership role. In this capacity, you will have the opportunity to serve as part of the Water/Wastewater business leadership team. As part of the Virginia Beach collaborative team, you will be responsible for managing the successful delivery of water related infrastructure projects in the multi-million-dollar range.
The Team
This team partners with our customers to align their people, processes, technologies, and data analytics in the face of industry transformation. They help their customers leverage our industry-leading solutions and expertise to modernize water infrastructure, optimize asset use, meet performance goals, reduce costs, and mitigate risk no matter where the water industry goes next.
Responsibilities
Business Development:
- Leading team efforts for marketing
- Strategy development
- Prospect identification, proposal development, proposal preparation, client presentations, project budgeting and contracting for successful opportunities
- Accountable for new business objectives and for overall project performance
Project Management:
- External focus to interact with assigned clients, become involved in client activities and promote the firm through client and community activities
- Support development of the overall market business plan, market strategies, client engagement strategies and leverage other technical and management resources to advance the firm's market footprint
Project Execution:
- Oversight of engineering manager(s)
- Development of project performance goals
- Accountability for implementation
- Active involvement with internal project team and owner project representatives on project activities
- Perform or assist with the performance and commercial management of projects including budgeting, invoicing, and payments; lead project performance reviews for assigned project(s)
Staff Management:
- Team development, mentoring and coaching on performance improvement
- Recommendations for training and promotion of assigned professionals as well as identification and development of new candidates to expand the team
Preferred Qualifications
- 15 + years of active water/ wastewater experience with demonstrated leadership experience in the Virginia Beach market
- Professional Engineering License; Bachelor's Degree in technical discipline
- Understanding of budgets and financial metrics
- Contract negotiation skill including knowledge of terms, risks, pricing and payment terms
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
