Water Engineer - Wastewater PM

Ready to help lead the growth of a thriving water and wastewater practice in New York?

Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.

Creighton Manning Engineering and Surveying, a GAI Company, is seeking a talented Project Manager with 10+ years of water/wastewater experience to join our dynamic team. This is more than a project management role, it's an opportunity to help build a growing business, strengthen client partnerships, and deliver critical infrastructure projects that make a real difference in communities across New York.

Working from any of our offices in Albany, Poughkeepsie, Syracuse, or White Plains , you'll lead projects spanning planning, design, permitting, and construction while collaborating with GAI's experienced water professionals. You'll have the opportunity to expand relationships within the municipal water and wastewater market, pursue new opportunities, and play an integral role in the continued growth of our practice.

If you're energized by the opportunity to blend technical excellence, client leadership, and business development while helping shape the future of a growing division, we'd love to hear from you. Plus, the successful candidate will be eligible for a generous SIGN-ON BONUS

Job Duties

• Independently perform and guide multi-discipline teams on the completion of water and wastewater planning, evaluation, design, and construction projects related to collection, conveyance, and distribution systems, pump stations, storage and treatment facilities, and asset upgrade/rehabilitation.
• Plan and manage projects from inception through construction and start-up, including client coordination, team chartering, scope, schedule and budget development and management, safety, quality assurance/quality control, project profitability, and staff workload coordination.
• Provide technical execution and oversight of design projects including schematic/preliminary design, design development, final design, specifications, permitting, construction contract document production, bid-phase services, and construction-phase services.
• Lead water/ wastewater consulting tasks, including flow projections, hydraulic modeling, master planning, detailed design calculations, alternative analysis and selection, cost estimating, equipment selection, and project prioritization.
• Hire, mentor and develop junior staff for both technical and project management knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Contribute to business development activities, including opportunity identification, proposal development, interviews/presentations, and client relationship cultivation.
• Serve as a primary doer/seller for the New York Water Division, growing into a "go-to" Creighton Manning representative to clients, key contractors and design partners, professional organizations, and in the communities we serve.

Required Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in the municipal water/ wastewater market involving master planning, hydraulic modeling, technical reports, design of distribution and conveyance systems (including pipelines in public rights-of-way), treatment process/facility design, regulatory permitting, services during construction, and/or other technical services.
• Minimum 2 years of experience serving as a Project Manager leading and directing multi-discipline project teams, both internally and externally, with a track record of delivering on time and on budget while meeting or exceeding client expectations.
• Excellent technical writing, verbal communication, and leadership skills working in a dynamic team environment.
• Sense of urgency and self-initiative to meet deadlines and develop new business opportunities.
• Experience in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, AutoCAD/ Civil 3D, ArcGIS, and industry hydraulic and design modeling software.
• Integrates solutions to complex problems across specialty areas.
• Demonstrates leadership

Preferred

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years serving in an engineer-of-record capacity for water and/or wastewater projects.
• Experience with the delivery of cross-market projects.
• Trenchless pipeline design, permitting, and construction experience.
• Facility and pipeline condition assessment field and data management experience.
• Successful client management/ business development experience in Upstate New York.

Pay Range

Albany/Syracuse – $55/hour – $68/hour

Poughkeepsie - $59/hour - $73/hour

Westchester- White Plains – $63/hour – $78/hour

Why Creighton Manning

At Creighton Manning, exceptional people have an exceptional place to work, grow, lead, and achieve. Explore an array of opportunities in locations across the U.S. and join accomplished colleagues in tackling challenging projects for a range of markets. Enjoy comprehensive benefits and feel good about being part of a collaborative team that's committed to supporting the communities we serve. Join Creighton Manning and distinguish yourself in a company poised for unlimited growth.

Creighton Manning is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion by fostering a workforce that represents different communities, cultures, and viewpoints. xhyhwjd We will continue to build mutual trust and respect where employees are empowered to share their diverse perspectives, experiences, and ideas.

Benefits To Working At Creighton Manning Include

• Competitive salary - Creighton Manning is committed to paying market-based salaries
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, vision, dental, company paid Long Term Disability and Short-Term Disability (benefits start within 30 days of hire)
• New paid Maternity/Paternity/Adoption program
• Generous Paid Time Off and 7 paid holidays
• 401k company match
• Tuition Reimbursement