Water/Wastewater / Recycled Water Master Planning - Senior Project Manager (Hybrid and CA based) - Ardurra Group, Inc.

Ardurra seeks a Water/Wastewater / Recycled Water Master Planning - Senior Project Manager looking for the opportunity to join a growing organization in a leadership role for an organization that values its people and has exciting clients. We are looking for experienced professionals who want the opportunity to help grow an organization with the support and resources of a national firm.

Prefer someone local to California or open to relocating to California and could be located out of any of our CA offices

Primary Function:

The Senior Project Manager will assist with planning, directing, and overseeing projects within Ardurra’s Southwest Practice. Working closely with the Group Leader will be responsible for technical oversight, supporting business development, proposal development, project management, and oversight of group personnel and resources. You will help to build our local group and provide exceptional client service. You will provide management expertise to ensure that projects are delivered on budget and on schedule. You will provide technical expertise to help develop effective solutions and to ensure the technical and quality aspects meet all client expectations and industry standards. In addition to your project responsibilities, you will provide advice, mentoring and development to other engineers. Excellent leadership, project and people management and written/verbal communication skills are all critical to success.

The ideal candidate will have a well-rounded background or proven skills in master planning and hydraulic analyses and will support highly technical staff on water / wastewater / recycled water planning projects. The candidate will also have strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Primary Duties:

• Plan, schedule, and track milestones, tasks, and activities
• Support development and run hydraulic models and document results in reports or technical memoranda.
• Perform research and analytical tasks related for water, recycled water, and wastewater masterplans, urban water management plans, asset management plans, water supply assessments, risk assessments, flow monitoring reports, etc.
• Attend meetings to discuss project progress and results.
• Actively managing assigned projects.
• Assist with business development activities.
• Archive final deliverable documents – reports, models, and associated tools.

Technical Expertise

• Experienced with all aspects of public water project delivery including water/wastewater treatment and advanced water treatment plants.
• Experienced in water pumping stations and sewer lift stations.
• Experience in all types of conveyance design (pipelines, flow control facilities, turnouts, pressure reducing stations, metering stations, and related facilities).

Project Delivery

• Serve as Project Manager for water/wastewater/recycled water master planning projects.
• Oversee staff for various and ongoing project assignments.
• Execute multiple concurrent assignments efficiently.
• Perform or lead teams to provide project management services.
• Effectively apply industry standards as well as client standards and requirements.
• Work with project teams to coordinate and prioritize project requirements, which may require meetings with clients and subconsultants.
• Ability to manage project requirements and client expectations.

Leadership Qualifications:

• Skilled leader capable of inspiring, motivating, and holding team accountable for delivery and client satisfaction
• Team player capable of building relationships both internally and externally, and naturally able to put the team success ahead of their own
• Effective project manager capable of delivering projects on schedule and on budget
• Great communicator in both oral and written communications
• Capable of building consensus and cooperation with staff at all skill levels

• Previous experience delivering studies, reports, master plans, and related technical documents.
• Planning and evaluation of water/wastewater/recycled water conveyance infrastructure.

Supervise and Mentor Professionals

• Mentor developing professionals to guide their career development objectives.
• Provide technical guidance on design approach and challenges.
• Perform on technically complex projects and act as a technical resource by providing guidance to other team members.
• Recognize when technical problems develop and initiate guidance for corrective actions.
• Conduct work in a safe manner and promote health and safety within the office and outside of the office while visiting clients and job sites.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil, Environmental, or related Engineering from an ABET accredited university or equivalent. Equivalent modeling and master planning project experience with another STEM degree will be considered.
• Minimum of 10 years of related experience in water and wastewater master planning tasks related to but not limited to: sewer I/I analysis, flow factor development and projections, business risk calculations, alternative analysis, cost estimations, alternatives scenario analysis, fire flow analysis etc.
• Licensed Professional Engineer in California.
• Experience with hydraulic modeling tools such as Autodesk modeling products including but not limited to InfoWater, InfoWater Pro, InfoSWMM, InfoSewer, Aquanuity or Bentley products like WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, and SewerCAD or other equivalent software. Experience with other modeling tools will be considered.
• Experience with ArcGIS Pro and integration with Innovyze software.
• Excellent technical writing skills for use in development of master plans, studies, engineering reports, and related technical documents.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Highly self-motivated, able to anticipate and initiate subsequent project tasks, working independently or with minimal instruction.
• Able to work efficiently within a predetermined project budget and schedule.
• A writing sample of or link to previous work is encouraged.
• Experience with data analysis software like R, Tableau, Power BI, etc. and scripting languages like SQL, Python, etc. is desirable but not required.
• Experience with Asset Management software like InfoAsset Planner is desirable but not required.

Comp range: $180,000 to $220,000/year (DOE)

Why Ardurra?

While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun. We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home.
Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

Ardurra does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agency Agreement, Ardurra will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. If a resume or candidate is submitted to any hiring manager without a previously signed agreement, Ardurra reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. These candidates will be considered property of Ardurra. We’re not currently looking to add any more agencies to our list of approved vendors, so please do not contact any of our managers or recruitment team with sales calls or details of your candidates.

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