Project Manager - Water Business - Portland
Black & Veatch Family of Companies
Location
Tualatin, OR | United States
Job description
Why Black and Veatch
Recognized by Glassdoor as a 2023 Top 100 place to work , Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1. Our hybrid environment allow you to balance your work and personal life.
At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use.
The Opportunity
As the Project Manager , you will have the opportunity to:
- Establish and/or maintain relationships with existing and prospective clients
- Develop new business- specifically leading business growth in Oregon and surrounding geographies
- Capture industry-leading market share of various Water work and achieving objectives while providing start to finish project responsibility
- Manage all aspects of an Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) service project including risk to cost, schedule and quality
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The Team
BV’s Governments & Environment business works to provide innovative solutions and integrated planning, design, and construction support for mission-critical facilities, as well as threat reduction and environmental services support worldwide. By joining our business, you will be able to provide infrastructure for community benefit through regulated utilities and government agencies.
This team partners with our customers to align their people, processes, technologies, and data analytics in the face of industry transformation. We help our 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. This team is ranked in the top 10 by ENR for Water Design Firms in Water Supply and Sewer Waste and other water-related rankings.
Key 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 Black & Veatch through client and community activities
- Support development of the overall market business plan, market strategies, client engagement strategies and leverage other Black & Veatch technical and management resources to advance Black & Veatch’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 Black & Veatch team
Management Responsibilities
Acts as a project manager. Among responsibilities is management of a project team. The individual comprising this team may vary by project.
Preferred Qualifications
- 15+ years business development and project management experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in technical discipline
- Professional Engineering License
- Proven technical understanding of Wastewater and Water markets, including drivers and general trends.
- Strong sales traits, including tenacity and competitiveness.
- Strong inter-personal skills. Adept at working in a team environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including proposal and presentations skills.
- Ability to interface with diverse personalities. Ability to think strategically and create persuasive message.
- Contract negotiating skills which includes knowledge of terms, risks, pricing, and payment terms.
- Understanding of budgets and financial metrics.
- Self-starter and ability to make decisions independently.
- Ability to meet deadlines and be flexible to multiple demands of project teams and shifting priorities. Problem solving and leadership skills.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
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