Project Manager - Water

Project Manager - Water

Together, we own our company, our future, and our shared success. As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch. We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanitys biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world. With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, together we are building a world of difference.

Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanitys 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 allows 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.

As the Project Manager, you will have the opportunity to:

• Be responsible for business management with priorities on client relationship development in the Texas area, effective positioning within target client organizations, leading pursuit teams, and strong financial management to include both top line and bottom line growth.
• Manage water and wastewater engineering capture strategies requiring global resources and/or multiple partners.
• Be accountable for project performance and specific New Business objectives.
• Create opportunities for new/repeat business; supports complex contract negotiations with appropriate client management.
• Manage varied complex risk which includes fixed price or new technology or non domestic markets or new clients.

This role will be based out of our San Antonio office. Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.

Black & Veatch's Governments & Communities focuses on specific infrastructure needs of municipalities, state and local governments, and specialized physical and digital infrastructure solutions for government and federal agencies. By joining our market sector, you will be able to provide infrastructure for community benefit.

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.

Be part of a team that has delivered large scale projects such as the T-Bar Well project in Midland, TX. Read about it here: T-Bar Well Field Project Delivers 20 Million Gallons of Water Per Day to 50,000 Homes | Black & Veatch (bv.com)

Key responsibilities include preparing and implementing Client Development Plans for assigned clients, developing and maintaining personal relationships with assigned clients, business partners, and competitors, delivering expected volume of New Business and Earned PGM from assigned project portfolio, promoting the full range of service offerings, assigning and leading positioning of client account teams, updating and maintaining ECRM to accurately reflect market potential for assigned clients, developing or reviewing all key pursuit strategy and positioning, and leading or supporting proposal development, managing the assigned portion of the business development budget, making Go/No Go decisions or recommendations, and assisting with preparation of PRB documents, overseeing execution of professional service projects to meet or exceed expectations for safety, quality, schedule, and budget, applying market pricing to ensure that each pursuit is competitive, actively managing performance of assigned staff and projects; and leading accountability within the Region, supervising and mentoring assigned Client Directors and/or Project Managers.

Management responsibilities include acting as a project manager and management of a project team. The individual comprising this team may vary by project.

Preferred qualifications include 15+ engineering experience, prior experience as a project manager; technical experience and background is recommended. PE preferred. Bachelor's Degree in technical discipline preferred; Master's Degree desirable. Strong sales traits, including tenacity, competitiveness, overall people skills, highly task oriented to focus on winning new business and achieving sales targets, ability to work in a team environment, excellent verbal and written communication skills, inter-personal skills, 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, ability to sell; strong negotiating and persuasive skills, 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 skills, leadership skills.

Minimum qualifications include 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.