American Water Works Association
Sr. Project Manager
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Description
At Haskell, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a nationally recognized Top Workplace where diverse perspectives and inclusive thinking drive stronger outcomes. Whether you’re starting out, growing your expertise, or leading the way, you’ll find a culture grounded in trust, driven by excellence, and built to support your goals. Here, you’ll have the opportunity, flexibility, and sense of belonging to grow your career your way—while making a real impact.
Scope of Position
Leads and directs a project team, has a proven record of successful projects and management of large, complex projects or multiple projects while overseeing the work of one or more project managers. The Senior Project Manager has an advanced level of proficiency with all project management competencies specifically project team leadership.
Job Responsibilities
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Field Management, Safety, and Quality: Reviews and monitors project progress, quality, and safety. Ensures that Haskell safety policies are enforced with commitment from all subcontractors. Complies with quality requirements to meet established quality objectives. Works with Superintendent to ensure the project is being completed per all project requirements. Monitors the Risk Register and QIP for timely coordination of quality inspections/events and mitigating risk identified at project inception.
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Document Control: Ensures submittal control, including scheduling, receiving, reviewing, approving, and expediting submittals from suppliers and subcontractors to comply with progress schedule. Ensures RFI’s are handled appropriately, and drawings and specifications are maintained.
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Scheduling: Plans, sequences, and schedules the project with input from the superintendent and subcontractors, in accordance with the prime contract key dates. Directs the project schedule, conducts job site meetings, and assists with preparation of updated schedules.
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Financial Management: Responsible for project cost control including updating of labor projections, financial logs (contingency, buyout, change orders, etc), cost reports, and project status summaries. Responsible to understand the expected project fee and to manage the project budget to ensure profitability. Prepares Owner requisitions for payment and other required project invoicing. Maximizes project cash flow through invoicing and collections. Manages payments to subcontractors and vendors, including reviewing and approving schedules of value, pay requisitions, invoices, and required insurance coverage.
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Procurement and Commitments: Responsible for establishing the procurement strategy, for preparing bid packages and invitation to bid inquiries, receiving and analyzing bids, qualifying subcontractors, and awarding subcontracts and material purchase orders. Ensures procurement strategy commitments are in line with established budgets with any significant variances are reported to supervisor. Responsible for creating commitments that identify scope, are of the correct type, to minimize risk. Works with Prequalification Department to qualify subcontractor and obtain approvals. Implements risk mitigation strategies as outlined within the completed Subcontractor Risk Evaluation (SRE).
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Estimating: Prepares detailed estimates, cost code input, and cost control systems.
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Project Lifecycle Management: Effectively monitors and manages the key project indicators throughout the life cycle of the project, such as, safety, scope, quality, time, and cost. Directs the project start-up strategy and organization and adjusts as needed for a successful project outcome.
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Project Team Leadership: Sets the vision for the project and integrates project with business objectives. Provides leadership to the project team and helps execute the plan, solves problems, and removes roadblocks. Provides leadership to the project team and maintains a healthy project team culture focusing on the Haskell core values. Divides, delegates, and supervises the execution of all project management tasks.
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Scope and Change Management: Monitors proper notice and documents changes and prepares and secures owner acceptance of contract change orders. Issues modifications to subcontracts and purchase orders after owner acceptance and updates budget in summary cost report.
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Risk Management: Identifies, assesses, and evaluates risks to the project using various available tools. Understands prime contract requirements and terms and conditions within subcontract agreements.
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Subcontractor/Vendor Management: Communicates performance requirements and manages subcontractor and supplier performance issues including documentation, default notices, and replacement, if necessary.
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Design Coordination: Participates in design review meetings and provides input regarding constructability, as well as scope and cost changes. Monitors the progress of design documents and design budget. Directs requirements of governing authorities for permits, inspections, and final approval of the project with A/E.
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Client Relations: Effectively manages client relations, including progress meetings, correspondence, periodic reports, change orders, and response to client inquiries and directives.
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Project Development: Partners with project directors in responding to RFP’s including the preparation of conceptual estimates, schedules, and other proposal documents. Participates in client presentations if required.
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Staffing: Works with director of construction and construction core personnel to establish job organization including superintendent and PCE requirements.
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Personnel Development: Actively involved with the development of construction personnel through mentoring and on-the-job training; to include performance management. Sets clear expectations for each team member and defines their role.
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Project Communications: Establishes and maintains project communication plan.
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Travel as required.
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Other duties which may be assigned as needed.
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Supervises others.
Education & Years Of Experience
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or construction management or equivalent preferred, plus 10 years or more of experience in construction, design, or management.
Qualifications
- Expertise in managing resources, including budgets, schedules, and materials in an environment of multiple, competing demands
- Knowledge of estimating, construction methods, engineering, equipment, and technology
- Excellent understanding of safety procedures
- Excellent organizational, supervisory, communication, collaboration, and analytical skills
- Ability to travel per project requirements
Foundational Competencies
Strategy – Planning for the Future:
- Developing talent, organizational alignment, strategic networking, and strategic thinking.
Delivery - Achieving Results:
- Analytical thinking, problem solving and decision making, results driven, flexible thinking, managing resources, teamwork, and team leadership.
Interpersonal - Building Relationships:
- Customer focus, influencing, negotiating, organizational knowledge, communication and presence, and diversity and inclusion.
Values
- Team: Collaborate and demonstrate respect for team members, partners, and everyone with whom we do business; ensure open communication.
- Excellence: Strive for quality and safety; execute best in class work; creative and innovative; dedicated to continuous improvement.
- Service: Passionate about customer service to internal and external clients as well as to the community; creates superior value.
- Trust: High standards of ethics and personal accountability; transparency; credibility; fairness.
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