Willdan,

Project Manager

Willdan, • $85K — $100K *
Plano, TX 75025In-Person
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.A. or B.S. in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Urban Planning, or Public Administration.
  • 4+ years of relevant experience, preferably in government consulting or agencies.
  • Familiarity with utility or local public government clients is essential.
  • Proven track record of managing multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Experience in presenting to diverse stakeholders including local government and the public.
  • Strong customer service skills in a dynamic environment.
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel for financial modeling.

Responsibilities

  • Administer and coordinate various public finance and district administration programs.
  • Assist in forming Districts and drafting necessary plans.
  • Manage reporting and compliance requirements efficiently and accurately.
  • Maintain expertise in applicable laws, regulations, and industry best practices.
  • Serve as the primary client contact, ensuring clear communication and satisfaction.
  • Oversee project activities, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets.
  • Conduct thorough research and analysis to inform project direction.
  • Implement quality assurance processes to deliver high-quality results.
  • Prepare presentations and reports for clients and internal teams, ensuring transparency.
  • Monitor project budgets and financial performance.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work independently with senior leadership oversight.
  • Ability to engage directly with clients, enhancing relationship management skills.
  • Hands-on experience with diverse public finance programs.
  • Chance to mentor and develop junior staff members.
  • Work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment that encourages growth.
Full Job Description
The Project Manager plays a crucial role in managing and overseeing multiple and simultaneous active projects, often acting as the primary point of contact between external clients and the consulting team. The selected individual will primarily work independently and report to a Principal Consultant or Group Manager/Director. The following provides a general overview of the types of projects and responsibilities associated with this position:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Administer and coordinate Special Taxing and Assessment Districts (Districts), Tax Increment Reinvestment Districts, and other public finance and district administration programs.
  • Provide assistance in forming Districts, including drafting Service and Assessment Plans.
  • Manage annual administrative activities, reporting requirements, compliance obligations, and other recurring client services to ensure projects are completed accurately and on schedule.
  • Maintain a thorough understanding of applicable laws, regulations, policies, and industry best practices related to district administration, public finance, and public agency consulting.
  • Client Engagement and Relationship Management: Serve as the primary contact for clients, ensuring clear and consistent communication to understand their needs, objectives, and challenges. Maintain positive client relationships and ensure client satisfaction throughout the project.
  • Project Coordination and Management: Oversee the day-to-day activities of the project, ensuring that timelines, budgets, and quality standards are met. Coordinate the efforts of internal teams and resources to deliver project milestones successfully.
  • Research and Analysis: Conduct in-depth research and analysis to understand the client's issues, challenges, and business environment. Use this information to guide the project's strategic direction and deliver tailored solutions.
  • Quality Assurance: Ensure high-quality results by tracking progress, reviewing analyses, reports, calculations and client deliverables, identifying potential risks, and mitigating any issues that could affect project outcomes.
  • Presentations, Reporting and Communication: Prepare regular presentations, reports and updates for clients and internal stakeholders, ensuring transparency and effective communication. Present findings, recommendations, and progress to clients in a clear and actionable manner, often at public meetings advising elected and appointed policy makers.
  • Budget and Financial Management: Monitor project budgets, track project financial performance, and ensure revenue recognition and invoicing processes are completed accurately and in accordance with company procedures.
  • Time Management: Efficiently managing both personal and team time to ensure that tasks and deliverables are completed within the set timeframe and budget.
  • Staff Development: Provide guidance, mentoring and technical support to analysts and junior staff as appropriate.
  • Maintaining Strong Business Relationships: Build and nurture long-term business relationships with clients, stakeholders, and partners through consistent communication and production of high-quality services and deliverables. Engage with clients regularly to ensure their needs are met, gather feedback, and ensure customer satisfaction.
  • The ideal candidate must be detail oriented and highly organized, with strong analytical skills. They will possess excellent verbal and written communication abilities and be capable of working independently on a variety of ongoing projects. The ability to prioritize tasks, manage time effectively, and maintain a high level of accuracy and quality in all aspects of their work is essential.

Job Requirements / Qualifications
  • B.A. or B.S. in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Urban Planning, or Public Administration.
  • 4 or more years of relevant experience (preferably in a government agency or government consulting firm).
  • Prior knowledge and experience with utility or local public government industry clients is required.
  • Ability to prioritize multiple simultaneous projects and tasks to ensure timely execution of high-quality services and deliverables.
  • Experience presenting findings to stakeholders including elected governing bodies, local government staff, and the general public.
  • Experience collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders while delivering excellent customer service in a highly dynamic growth environment.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, evolving, entrepreneurial work environment.
  • Advanced expertise with Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), and web-based information sources. In particular, developing and understanding financial and economic models and complex spreadsheets in Excel.
  • Ability to read, analyze and interpret government regulations, professional journals, industry technical publications and technical manuals or instructions.
  • Ability to consistently and accurately calculate figures and mathematical relationships such as discounts, interest, rates of return, proportions and percentages.
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
  • Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract or concrete variables.
  • Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
  • Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
  • Superior information management, time management, and communication skills.

About Willdan,

Willdan Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded company selling professional technical and consulting services to public and private utilities, public agencies at all levels of government, and commercial and industrial firms. The company operates offices in more than a dozen states, with its key operations in California and New York. In 1964, the company was built by William Stookey and Dan Heil in southern California on a then-unique model of providing outsourced engineering services exclusively to municipalities, especially newly urbanizing cities. Over the next 50 years, the company's expansion has reflected the increasingly complex challenges facing communities, with a forward-looking focus on energy efficiency, energy engineering, cogeneration, Energy Savings Performance Contract, Community Choice Aggregation, smart city, microgrid consulting, and Transactive energy software. In 2006, Willdan Group, Inc. completed its initial public offerings in NASDAQ, becoming a publicly traded company under the symbol WLDN. In 2008, Willdan acquired Intergy Corporation, then renamed Willdan Energy Solutions, offering energy efficiency utility program management. In 2015, Willdan acquired 360 Energy Engineers and Abacus Resource Management, expanding its capabilities into Energy Service Company and Energy Savings Performance Contract services. Willdan acquired NYC-based Genesys Engineering, P.C., in 2016, bringing Power Engineering services into its portfolio, with an eye to evolution of U.S. power systems toward Distributed generation and microgrids.
Learn more about Willdan,
Size
1,560 employees
Market Cap
$248.5 million
Industry
Business Services
Net Income
-$14.5 million
Founded
1964
5 Year Trend
+11.1%
Revenue
$390.9 million
NASDAQ
WLDN
* Ladders Estimates

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