Engineering Project Manager - 17602

Seattle, WA

Engineering Project Manager - 17602

This Opportunity

WSP currently has an Engineering Project Manager career opportunity to support our remote Applied Solutions practice, which provides project management, construction management, and project controls support for environmental engineering and construction projects. This full-time position can be located anywhere in the United States.

The full-time Engineering Project Manager will lead a team of technical resources to execute commercial and federal projects primarily focused on environmental, sustainable, and remediation efforts. This position will provide exposure to various delivery models, such as engineering-procurement-construction-management (EPCM), engineering-procurement-construction (EPC), design-build, and design-bid-build.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone interested working closely with clients and leading a team of talented resources to achieve project objectives. We are dedicated to helping individuals grow and will provide strong mentorship to allow you to develop your project management skills. We’d love you to join our team of friendly, hard-working, dedicated, and collaborative professionals. 

Your Impact

•    Communicating with clients to understand their objectives and assembling and leading a team of resources to successfully achieve those objectives within scope, schedule, budget, and safety requirements. 
•    Being the primary point of contact with clients and ensuring satisfactory progress is being made and, if necessary, promptly implementing corrective actions. 
•    Performing project related field tasks, attending key meetings, coordinating and overseeing subcontractors, providing project related field documentation, and performing a variety of technical activities during project planning, design, and construction. 
•    Developing and maintaining a project-specific risk register and proactively managing issues from kick-off through closeout. 
•    Developing and maintaining comprehensive project schedules.
•    Tracking project expenditures and accurately forecasting estimated costs at completion.
•    Developing client and internal project reports to ensure projects are on schedule, on budget, performed safely, and comply with quality requirements.
•    Coordinating the preparation and review of deliverables. 
•    Providing technical assistance such as interpreting specifications and applying technical standards to project-specific applications. 
•    Performing periodic site visits to confirm progress conforms to project’s requirements. 
•    Reviewing and approving contractor/subcontractor payment applications. Maintaining up-to-date records, including correspondence, design direction, progress submittals, schedules, meeting documents, shop drawing review, test reports, as-built records, and other documents necessary to document engineering activities. 
•    Ensuring all project documents are stored on the designated shared drive and not on personal computers. Understanding and implementing document management and storage procedures for each project, as per policy.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

•    7 – 10  years + of relevant project management experience.
•    Undergraduate degree in engineering, construction management, related degree, or equivalent experience in an engineering or construction-related position.
•    Experience assembling and managing project teams to complete contract requirements, while ensuring safety, quality, cost, and schedule goals are achieved.
•    Experience with construction plans and specifications and relating that to project scope, schedule, and cost.
•    Experience being responsible for project financial performance and tracking and reporting on expenditures as well as forecasting estimated costs to complete. 
•    Self motivated with excellent verbal/written communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and decision-making skills. 
•    Ability to liaise between designers, owners, contractors, and end-users.
•    Certifications preferred (PE, DBIA, PMP, CCM, etc.). 
•    Must pass background check