Senior Utility Management Services Project Manager

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HDR is looking for a Senior Utility Management Services (UMS) Project Manager to join our Central Texas Water Business Group. HDR's UMS Business Class provides national leadership to develop, coordinate, monitor, and improve technical services for municipal water and wastewater utility support services, particularly utility planning, asset management, finance, and operations consulting. Candidates for this position should desire a role in the water/wastewater engineering industry that includes working closely with both our clients and internal staff to build successful teams. This role will work to drive and develop business across Texas.

In this role we'll count on you to:

• Participate in delivery of project services to meet client expectations, including project management.
• Market and deliver UMS services to existing and potential clients.
• Support other business classes with marketing efforts.
• Participate in internal and external professional discipline groups, project teams, and activities to continually improve standards and best practices including presentations for professional associations.
• Implement effective quality assurance and quality control reviews.
• Participate in business class strategic planning, budgeting, and plan implementation.
• Commit to quality, improvement, and HDR values.
• Schedule, assign, and review work of project team members.
• Support of project team building and drinking water and wastewater opportunities and projects including facility planning, master planning, business case evaluations, asset management, GIS-related efforts, condition assessment, and data management.
• Implement a range of best management practices with water, wastewater, and/or stormwater utilities including asset management and operational improvements.
• Perform analysis of large utility maintenance management systems, and/or condition assessment databases to support inspection, condition assessment, and planning programs.
• Support marketing efforts including leading and participating in proposal development, participating as an active leader in our client management approach for key clients, and be an integral component in the planning and expansion of our Utility Management Services portfolio in Central Texas
• Serve as the project manager for utility planning, regulatory compliance, condition assessment, and asset management projects.
• Provide effective leadership of the project team. Supervise project engineers/scientists and subcontractors in the successful delivery of technical projects.
• Work closely with client development leads, other project managers, other internal staff and client staff to define scopes of work, resources requirements, budgets, schedules and deliverables.
• Lead the preparation of client deliverables, including written reports, meetings, and presentations.
• Budgetary and schedule controls, invoicing, project coordination, quality management, and being the trusted point of contact with our clients.
• Prepare and periodically review/update project execution plans. Communicate progress effectively with team members and senior management.
• Identify, develop, and lead pursuit of new project opportunities in utility management services.
• Establish strong, productive, collaborative relationships.
• Communicate efforts with client counterparts and ensure an ongoing positive relationship.
• Represent HDR in project meetings. Participate in or lead proposal preparation, presentations, contract negotiations, amendments, change notices, and contract claims. Understand and possess ability to communicate technical concepts to other staff and the client.
• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication and negotiating skills.
• Consistently adhere to and enforce internal HDR processes and policies such as business and contracting rules.
• Work in a manner to ensure personal safety and that of fellow employees by following HDR and client health and safety guidelines and policies.