Woodard & Curran is hiring a
Water Resources Senior Project Manager in United States

Summary

The job is for a Senior Water Resources Technical Manager or Project Manager in California. The role involves managing complex water resources projects, providing technical leadership, project management, client visibility, business development/marketing, and continuous learning. The candidate should have at least 15 years of professional work experience in water resources projects and strong communication skills.

Requirements

• Minimum of 15 years of professional work experience managing water resources projects or equivalent demonstrated competency
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: program and project concept development, working with municipal water clients, hydrology, supply, and demand forecasting and management, supply vulnerability and risk analyses, water systems modeling, groundwater, integrated planning, and decision support
• Strong attention to detail, analytical, and strong organization skills
• Superior writing, communication, presentation, and negotiation skills
• Ability to interface with co-workers, project staff, various clients, and government agencies
• Demonstrated skills and abilities required to partner with a project team to deliver a large, complex water resources project

Responsibilities

• Manages complex engineering, planning, or scientific work for clients
• Performs technical tasks of significant difficulty and complexity, working on challenging projects
• Oversees the overall quality of project deliverables
• Prepares and delivers presentations to internal and/or external clients
• Leverages expertise in water resources planning that will improve the efficiency and quality of project delivery
• Provides strategic leadership internally to complete projects with diverse project teams
• Leads project teams to provide successful projects that meet client needs
• Manages the financial and technical delivery of projects or tasks within the agreed-upon scope, schedule, and budget
• Manage QA/QC functions to ensure accuracy and adequacy of work products
• Be the primary point of contact on projects
• Supports the recruitment, staff development, and retention
• Participates in local, regional, and/or national water resources-related professional groups
• Disseminates project information to team and client via informational emails and other appropriate channels
• Works with Water Resources Practice Leader to develop key approaches and lead/participate in key initiatives
• Fosters and maintains one-on-one relationships with key external clients
• Provides significant skills leading to a competitive advantage for Woodard & Curran
• Develops, reviews, and/or evaluates proposals for water resources practice
• Participates in interviews for new projects
• Engages in staff development and mentoring
• Provides feedback/guidance on staff development if requested
• Identifies technical gaps in our staff and assists in filling those gaps through both proactive recruiting and internal staff development
• Provides mentoring in area(s) of expertise to staff
• Supervises, coordinates, and reviews the project work of technical staff and works to meet completion date
• Leads discipline coordination on large, complex water resources projects
• Provides technical QC on some or all project elements

Benefits

• Retirement Savings: Company will match equal to 100% of the first 3% of salary contributed, All employees are eligible
• Paid time off
• Sick leave
• Parental leave
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Wellness program
• Tuition assistance offers eligible employees up to 100% reimbursement of tuition, books and fees up to $5250 per year, for courses related to the employee’s job or planned career development
• Equal Employment Opportunity