WSP

Project Manager (Mission Critical/Data Center)

WSP • $80K — $95K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
  • 3-5 years of Project/Program Management experience on large engineering/construction projects
  • Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills for diverse team collaboration
  • Proficiency in MS Office and project management software
  • Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple priorities

Responsibilities

  • Lead teams of engineers and designers through project completion
  • Prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules
  • Maintain regular communication with clients about project status
  • Manage relationships with project stakeholders and keep them informed
  • Track, analyze, and report on project performance against plans
  • Lead business development initiatives including RFQs and RFPs
  • Provide mentoring and support to team members

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on medium to large-scale projects
  • Minimal oversight allows for autonomy in project management
  • Engagement with diverse teams and stakeholders
  • Professional development through mentoring and leadership opportunities
  • Involvement in business development initiatives
Full Job Description
Job Description

This Opportunity

kW Mission Critical Engineering is currently initiating a search for a Project Manager for our kW office in Milwaukee, WI. As a Project Manager with us, you will lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion with minimal oversight. This includes regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing, and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets, invoicing and project closeout.

Your Impact
  • Lead teams of Engineers, Designers and other staff through project completion;
  • Lead the teams through the successful completion of medium to large projects while managing more than one project at a time;
  • Prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval;
  • Maintain regular communication with clients regarding project status and project quality, and proactively resolve issues;
  • Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public. This involves keeping the stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables, and meet the project schedule;
  • Proactively track, analyze and report on actual performance against the plan, and prepare cost and schedule reporting, both for clients and as part of internal reporting processes. Address change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments;
  • Internal reporting includes: Monthly project financial forecast, project budget maintenance, key performance indicator monitoring
  • Analyze project management and project delivery risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigating action;
  • Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals; with input from others, compile a comprehensive and realistic scope of work, and prepare a complete and accurate fee estimate, in a format suitable for obtaining the required management approvals;
  • As Team Leader, provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members.
  • Provide general administrative and technical leadership for the project; Maintain all project records and monitor correspondence
  • Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity
  • Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned.
  • Implement and manage the kW Quality Control Plan for each project
  • Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project
  • Management of client and subconsultant invoicing


Who You Are
Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 3-5 years of experience in Project and/or Program Management and experience on large, engineering and/or construction projects
  • Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of project professionals; concurrently managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
  • Clear, concise, and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff
  • Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills
  • Proficiency with computer office productivity (i.e., MS Office) and project management software tools
  • Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
  • Familiarity reading construction drawings and specifications.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Project or Program Management Professional certification (i.e., PMP)
  • Experience in an engineering consulting environment
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management
  • Experience in project planning, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs

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About WSP

WSP is a Canadian engineering consulting firm that provides services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment. The firm's expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. It has approximately 54,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, and various environmental experts. WSP has offices in more than 40 countries and territories around the world.
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54,000 employees
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Founded
1959

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