Civil Engineering, Architecture, Consulting

Water Resources Project Manager

Charlotte, NCOnsiteFull TimePosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

Water Resources Engineering
Project Management
drainage
stormwater management
modeling
permitting
client relationships
risk mitigation
proposal development
mentorship

Nice to have

multidisciplinary engineering
architecture
information technology

Role summary

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT) is seeking a Water Resources Project Manager to join their employee-owned consulting firm. This role involves designing, managing, and marketing water resources engineering projects, with a focus on drainage and stormwater management. The successful candidate will oversee project objectives, ensuring adherence to scope, schedule, and budget. Responsibilities include quality assurance, client relationship management, risk mitigation, proposal development, and mentoring junior staff. This position offers increasing responsibilities and opportunities for growth within a multidisciplinary engineering environment.

Job Description

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals, providing a full range of multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT is currently ranked #45 on Engineering News-Record’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

Position summary: The candidate will have increasing responsibilities in designing, managing, and marketing Water Resources Engineering for a variety of clients and project types. The successful candidate will be well-versed across the water resources discipline with demonstrated design and management experience in drainage and stormwater management design, modeling, and permitting with the supporting capabilities to effectively oversee, perform and manage a variety of water resource related engineering projects.

Responsible for assisting in delivering all project objectives for assigned projects while meeting scope, schedule and budget requirements.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Manages project(s) in accordance with scope, schedule, and budget.
Collaborates with disciplines and subconsultants to develop a risk adverse project scope and fee.
Work closely with junior staff to create stormwater drainage design deliverables for clients.
Ability to provide Quality Assurance / Quality Control reviews of deliverables during the design process.
Providing coaching and mentorship to the project team through one-on-one check-in meetings and various project debriefs to acknowledge achievements, identify areas for improvement, and share lessons learned.
Communicate project status, updates, and issues to internal and external stakeholders.
Build relationships with client(s) to understand preferences and requirements to set-up and execute a quality project.
Monitor and execute project progress, including identifying and mitigate risks, developing extra work order requests and open-end contract task proposals.
Assist Section Heads, Office Leaders, and Practice Leaders with the marketing process including, SMART Go/No Go decisions, proposal development, and interviews.

Nonessential Functions and Responsibilities

Perform other related duties as assigned

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