Water/Wastewater Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Dewberry is currently seeking to expand our water/wastewater services in Boston, MA and is seeking a Water/Wastewater Senior Project Manager.  The ideal candidate will have technical, managerial, and market access responsibilities to lead the execution of project work and assist in business strategy to develop new client work, while helping to maintain existing client relationships. The Candidate will strategically identify opportunities and plan/implement prepositioning activities to position Dewberry favorably for selection. The Candidate will develop and leverage relationships to position Dewberry to perform water/wastewater projects across the northeast. The candidate will manage, support and execute a range of civil engineering wastewater, stormwater, potable water and resilience projects for municipal and some private clients and will support and/or supervise department project management, engineering and technical staff operations. The candidate will work with Dewberry leadership across the Water Service Line to advance our water/wastewater/stormwater/resilience practices across our targeted geographies.

This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and talented individual to join a team of outstanding professionals. This position offers potential for professional growth in a great working environment and the opportunity to apply the latest technology to assist our clients in solving their most challenging problems.The successful candidate will be an engineer with a diverse background and experience in developing and executing water and wastewater treatment, conveyance, storage, and pumping projects.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 50 locations and 2,000 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Responsibilities

• Applies thorough knowledge and expertise of current principles and practices of engineering acquired through progressive experience to resolve crucial issues and/or project challenges.
• Plans, schedules, coordinates and performs the preparation of engineering assessments, preliminary designs, and the preparation of design documents and activities for multiple projects.
• Ensures quality of own work and the work of others, while maintaining budget and schedule.
• Take over management of select existing projects, monitor scope, schedules and budget of projects.
• Plan and conduct/coordinate quality control for technical assignments.
• Support management of existing clients.
• Manage existing department staff including workload planning, skills development and professional mentoring/development.
• Participate in personnel decisions and manage personnel.
• Visit clients, job sites and consultant offices, as needed, to support project and business development goals.
• Develop and implement business plan to deliver growth of water, wastewater, stormwater and resilience business in the northeast.
• Conduct prepositioning and business development activities. Identify opportunities at Federal, municipal, state, private and other entities and collaborate with existing team to pursue, secure and deliver assignments and develop long term relationships with those entities.
• Drive preparation of high quality proposals for submittal on competitive and sole source pursuits. Create scope of work, schedules, and budgets for projects/proposals.
• Coordinate, collaborate and communicate across Dewberry’s national Water Service Line. Support regional/national technical and business development efforts.
• Develop knowledge of all Dewberry offerings and support cross selling of full suite of services to existing and potential/new clients.
• Identify potential needs for new skills and/or strategic hiring where appropriate, and support recruiting efforts.
• Support identification and vetting of potential acquisition targets.
• Communicate and coordinate market development efforts and ideas.
• Increases Dewberry’s visibility in the public sector water business through active participation in national, state and local professional and community organizations.
• Support branding activities of Dewberry services and ongoing public exposure.
• Be prepared to leverage existing relationships outside of Dewberry’s client portfolio, to deliver growth opportunities.

Required Skills & Required Experience

• B.S. Degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering, or related field.
• Massachusetts Professional Engineering license.
• 15 years’ consulting experience, with increasing levels of project and client responsibilities for public sector water and wastewater projects.
• A minimum of 10 years of project and client management experience.
• A recognized area of technical expertise is a plus.
• Successful track record of building client relationships in the water and wastewater field, with a reputation for being highly responsive and delivering quality work.
• A successful track record of managing projects scope, schedule and budget compliance.
• Proven experience with the planning, design and construction of water and wastewater infrastructure facilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong client management and business development skills.
• Strong leadership qualities and ability to coach and mentor staff.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters:  Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

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