Project Manager - Detroit (Water / Wastewater Industry)

**Job Summary** Brown and Caldwell has a unique development opportunity for a mid to senior level professional engineer with a desire to apply and develop their project management, leadership, design and business development skills. This full-time position will contribute to project delivery and client service teams in winning and executing innovative planning, evaluation, design, permitting and construction support services for a variety of asset management, advanced treatment plants, biosolids, pumping stations, pipeline projects for municipal clients in the area of water and *wastewater*. We are looking for a Civil/Mechanical/Environmental Engineer with a Michigan PE license that will work well with Brown and Caldwell's Midwest leaders to advance our growth strategy while providing project oversight and engineering mentorship in our Detroit and surrounding Midwest offices. The Project Management role involves planning, executing, and overseeing projects so that they are completed on time, within budget, while meeting quality standards and health and safety requirements. The role works closely with cross-functional teams to define project scope, set objectives, allocate resources, and develop detailed project plans. The role monitors progress, manages risks and change, resolves challenges, and communicates with stakeholders to provide regular updates. The role manages moderately complex projects. This role will typically manage small to mid-size projects and is expected to independently deliver results with minimal supervision, while progressively increasing revenue responsibility. **Responsibilities** Responsibilities include the following for delivering day-to-day operations for small to mid-sized projects: - Project team leadership expectations: - **Set direction**: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team by providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve. - **Communicate**: Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions. - **Support Team Motivation:**Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating success. - **Establish Trust**: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency. - **Create a safe environment**: Support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive. - **Embrace thought and experience diversity**: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered. - **Develop project team members**: Support project team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring. Execution of BC’s project delivery requirements: - - **Scope**: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Develop clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully. - **Schedule**: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide for timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures as needed. - **Budget**: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set projects up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet planned project performance metrics. - **Quality Management**: Create, implement and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality review processes and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality. - **Change Management**: Identify and manage internal and external chan…