Willdan,

Project Manager

Willdan,$88K — $105K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Urban Planning, or Public Administration.
  • Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, ideally in a government agency or consulting context.
  • Experience with utility or local public government industries is preferable.
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
  • Proven experience in delivering presentations to stakeholders, including public governing bodies.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders in a dynamic environment.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly in creating financial models in Excel.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct updates and reviews of user fee programs and cost allocation plans for public agency services.
  • Create and analyze financial models supporting utility operations and decision-making.
  • Perform detailed fiscal and economic impact analyses for development projects.
  • Recommend enhancements or new revenue sources through revenue enhancement studies.
  • Serve as primary client contact, ensuring clear communication and long-term relationship management.
  • Manage multiple projects from initial proposals to final delivery, adhering to quality standards.
  • Prepare and present reports to clients and internal teams, effectively communicating project findings.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional development and mentorship roles.
  • Engagement in projects with variation across utility sectors.
  • Chance to work in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment across multiple project types.
Full Job Description
The Project Manager will primarily work independently and report to a Principal Consultant or Group Manager/Director.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • User Fee and Cost Allocation Plan Updates: Conduct updates and reviews of user fee programs and structures to ensure fees recover the costs of providing public agency services. Develop and review cost allocation methodologies that appropriately assign indirect overhead costs to an agency's direct operating activities or functions while ensuring alignment with operations and applicable regulations.
  • Financial Modeling for Utility Clients: Create and analyze financial models for water, wastewater, natural gas, electric, solid waste, and stormwater utility clients. Use financial projections, alternative scenarios, and sensitivity analyses to support ratemaking, utility operations, budgeting, forecasting, and informed decision-making.
  • Fiscal and Economic Impact Analysis: Perform detailed analyses to assess the fiscal and economic impacts of new development, redevelopment, or reuse projects on communities and local governments.
  • Revenue Enhancement Studies: Analyze existing and potential revenue-generation strategies and recommend enhancements or new revenue sources.
  • Client Engagement and Relationship Management: Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, maintaining clear and consistent communication to understand their needs, objectives, and challenges. Build positive client relationships and support client satisfaction throughout each project.
  • Project Coordination and Management: Manage multiple projects simultaneously and oversee the full project lifecycle, from proposals and contract negotiations through final delivery. Coordinate day-to-day project activities and internal resources to ensure milestones are completed within scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.
  • Research and Analysis: Conduct in-depth research and analysis to understand client issues, challenges, and operating environments. Use this information to guide project strategy and develop tailored solutions.
  • Quality Assurance: Monitor project progress; review financial models, analyses, and deliverables; identify potential risks; and address issues that could affect project quality or outcomes.
  • Presentations, Reporting, and Communication: Prepare reports, presentations, and project updates for clients and internal stakeholders. Clearly communicate findings, recommendations, and project progress, including presenting at public meetings and advising elected and appointed policymakers.
  • Budget and Financial Management: Monitor project budgets and follow applicable revenue acceptance processes to maintain financial accountability.
  • Time Management: Effectively manage personal and team priorities to ensure tasks and deliverables are completed within established timelines and budgets.
  • Staff Development: As assigned, mentor, train, and support the professional development of analysts and other staff members.
  • Business Relationship Management: Develop and maintain long-term relationships with clients, stakeholders, and business partners through consistent communication and the delivery of high-quality services. Regularly engage clients to understand their needs, gather feedback, and support customer satisfaction.

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.
  • 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
Net Income
-$14.5 million
Founded
1964
5 Year Trend
+11.1%
Revenue
$390.9 million
NASDAQ

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