Bachelor's degree in Civil, Environmental, or related Engineering field preferred.
Minimum of 15 years experience in managing land development projects on schedule and within budget preferred.
Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office.
Professional knowledge of Civil 3D, Bluebeam, and Pipe Networks.
Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills, including leading up, across, and down the organization with various team sizes internally and externally.
Extensive understanding of project and program management principles, methods, and techniques.
Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives.
Preferred:
Professional Engineer License
Valid Driver's license and automobile insurance preferred.
Day to Day:
Join a top 10 firm in the Southwest -- and discover opportunities to advance your career in engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture, and construction management, both in the private and public sectors. They are an Arizona-based company that fosters a culture of entrepreneurial spirit, elevated thinking, being team-minded, and embracing tough talk. This candidate's day to day will look like the following;
Manage multiple project teams in all aspects of project management and planning to achieve project goals and objectives.
Actively involved in developing future business and building relationships with existing clients.
Provide a big-picture perspective to project managers to attain project goals and objectives.
Work with project managers and stakeholders to set project goals and objectives, identify necessary resources, estimate project budgets, set project scopes, and schedules, and create project plans.
Set and continually manage project expectations while delegating and managing deliverables with project managers.
Monitor, track, and control outcomes, facilitating project team meetings to ensure performance and progress and resolve issues or conflicts.
Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, and communication across departments and leadership.
Follow up with clients as needed to clarify project goals, ensure the design meets their needs and specifications, and represent the client in public meetings.
Assess the project's overall success and team performance.
Provide clear direction on tasks and expectations on deliverables, and establish clear deadlines with team member affirmation.
Responsible for contract management, including change orders or additional services.
Own project financials, including billing, budgets and accounts receivable collections.
Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution. Ensure projects are delivered to QA/QC standards.
Assist in dispute, negotiation, arbitration, or litigation, as needed.
Build and train project teams to expand their capabilities by establishing best practices, policies, tools, methodologies, quality assurance and control, tools, and templates.
Balance staffing and workload through collaboration with the PM and APM team.
Advocate for learning, process improvement, and project management in the company.
Collaborate with People Operations to develop onboarding processes and other essential training needs.
Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project managers, including performance reviews.
Provide on-site and/or remote leadership for the project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals and adhere to their responsibilities and project milestones.
Advocate and model "I am EPS" culture and instill form, department and team culture and values.
Responsible for completing personal timecards accurately and reviewing and approving associate timecards on time.
May require attending project team and public meetings after hours.
Communicate effectively (written and verbal) internally (interdepartmental and intradepartmental) and externally (inclusive of clients, sub-consultants, municipalities).
Lead the execution of strategic initiatives.
Evaluate company practices and processes to provide input for continuous improvement.
Be an ambassador for EPS at industry events and conferences. May require attending project team and public meetings after hours.
Achieve a 50-60% Billable Utilization Rate. Non-billable activities include company & team meetings, professional development, community involvement, innovation time, culture & engagement activities, learning, and training.
Manage $1.8M+ in projects and 9+ staff members, including Assistant Project Managers and staff.
Physical Requirements
Required to stand, walk, and sit.
Requires a regular and normal range of hearing.
Requires prolonged sitting with 15% of the time spent bending and reaching during office work and prolonged standing with a significant amount of time spent bending, squatting, and reaching when working in the field.
Must have manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator.
Noise levels are consistent with a standard office environment when working in an office. However, when working in the field, noise levels vary from ambient outdoor levels to those requiring ear protection.
Able to sit for an extended period while in transit to job sites.
Perks & Benefits
Health, life, 401(k), dental and vision insurance
Short-term, long-term disability insurance and leave