What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Manager position at AKRF, Inc.?
Founded in 1981, AKRF is an award-winning consulting firm with 400 professionals bringing the value of strategic thinking to our land development, transportation, energy, and water clients. We serve our clients through a commitment to technical excellence across our portfolio of professional services, while always acting with integrity and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and environmental stewardship. Offices are located throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Connecticut, and the company completes projects around the country.
Professionals join and remain at AKRF for our corporate-casual environment that values flexible work schedules and locations, and balances award-winning planning, engineering, and environmental projects with social impact initiatives, charitable giving, and plenty of fun and games. Our cookie exchanges and ice cream socials are quite the treat.
AKRF, Inc. is seeking a full-time Senior Project Manager in our Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office location, to support green infrastructure, climate adaptation, urban flood resiliency, stormwater management, and stream and floodplain restoration projects in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide project and technical management of major engineering design projects including site layout, grading, stormwater management, drainage/conveyance system design, and related supporting disciplines.
- Act as client service manager and/or project manager for existing AKRF water resources projects in Pittsburgh and throughout the region.
- Direct hydrologic and hydraulic analyses in connection with stormwater management, stream restoration, and flood mitigation planning projects.
- Lead the development of construction documents and specifications for stormwater management, urban flood resiliency, and stream restoration projects.
- Support related research, operations and maintenance, asset management, regulatory compliance, and program development tasks to supplement core engineering assignments.
- Managing and updating task budgets and schedules.
- Preparing technical proposals.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Water Resources Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Science or a related discipline.
- 8 years of experience in the fields of urban green stormwater infrastructure, water/sewer linear infrastructure, wet weather planning/management, stream restoration, ecosystem restoration, climate adaptation planning or related disciplines, with an emphasis on design and planning work.
- Pennsylvania P.E. or the ability to obtain within 1 year of employment.
- Experience conducting hydrologic and hydraulic analysis using SWMM, Autodesk Storm & Sanitary Analysis, HydroCAD, and HEC-RAS strongly preferred.
- Desire a mix of office and field work with occasional regional travel.
- Experience using AutoCAD strongly preferred – knowledge of Autodesk Civil3D pipe network and corridor modeling is a plus.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, and a penchant for innovative approaches to problem solving.
- Experience integrating geospatial data/GIS in the infrastructure planning and design workflow is a plus.
What AKRF is offering:
We provide employees with a benefit package that reflects our respect for your workplace contributions, professional goals, and personal priorities. The benefits program at AKRF includes:
- Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
- Vacation and Sick time
- Flexible work schedules and locations
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching
- Additional Voluntary Life Insurance
- Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Training and professional development courses
- Opportunities for community outreach through internal networks
- Charitable donation match
- Transit/parking program
AKRF, Inc. enforces a policy of equal employment opportunity in our daily operations. The firm has a demonstrated history of hiring, training, developing, promoting and retaining minority group members and women. All employment-related decisions are based solely on relevant criteria and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status or citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
