Senior Project Manager/Sales Leader - Water Services
Apply NowCompany: CDM Smith, Inc.
Location: Vancouver, BC V5K 5J9
Description:
Job Description
CDM Smith currently has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager and Sales Leader with previous experience selling and managing municipal water services projects to join our Western Canada group. In this position, your primary role will be to lead the sales and successful delivery of engineering projects for our clients in the following areas of practice: facility planning, drinking water and wastewater treatment, biosolids, pump stations, pipelines, and water and sewer systems.
CDM Smith's Global Delivery Excellence Framework provides project managers with best-in-class tools and policies that streamline scope, schedule, and financial management. Project managers are also provided with project control specialists, contract administrators, and quality management support throughout the project planning, delivery, and closeout lifecycle. Senior Project Managers and Sales Leader's key performance indicators include revenue managed, profit delivered, cash flow, business development, proposals, on-time delivery, quality management system compliance, and individual utilization.
For more information about our Project Management roles, tools and culture, please visit this website https://bit.ly/2UC8V16.
As a member of this team, you would contribute to CDM Smith's mission by:
Managing and serving as the lead Project Manager for water, wastewater, stormwater, conveyance, and general municipal engineering projects.
Collaborate with sales teams to pre-position for upcoming projects and create proposals in response to RFPs
Meet with current and potential future clients to review their current and future project needs.
Providing technical guidance, senior leadership, and mentoring engineering staff to enhance our water services design capabilities.
Being responsible for planning and execution of scope, schedule and budget for projects managed.
Completing Quality Assurance/Quality Control reviews of key deliverables.
Assisting Client Service Leaders with technical marketing by meeting with clients in the region.
Participation in professional societies relevant to the industry.
Building and maintaining positive working relationships with key decision makers in our clients' organizations.
Perform technical engineering project work.
Providing excellent client service that generates repeat business.
Supporting proposal development and participating in interviews for new projects you will help deliver.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree.
13 years of related experience. PMP (PMI), CCM or DBIA certification is required (within 12 months of hire or promotion onto the Approved Project Manager list).
Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands.
Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Preferred Qualifications
P.Eng certification
Prior experience managing municipal water and wastewater treatment and/or conveyance projects in British Columbia greater than $1m.
Excellent communication, networking and team building skills.
Why CDM Smith?
Check out this video and find out why our team loves to work here!
Join Us! CDM Smith - where amazing career journeys unfold.
Imagine a place committed to offering an unmatched employee experience. Where you work on projects that are meaningful to you. Where you play an active part in shaping your career journey. Where your co-workers are invested in you and your success. Where you are encouraged and supported to do your very best and given the tools and resources to do so. Where it's a priority that the company takes good care of you and your family.
Our employees are the heart of our company. As an employer of choice, our goal is to provide a challenging, progressive and inclusive work environment which fosters personal leadership, career growth and development for every employee. We value passionate individuals who challenge the norm, deliver world-class solutions and bring diverse perspectives. Join our team, and together we will make a difference and change the world.
Background Check and Drug Testing Information
CDM Smith Inc. and its divisions and subsidiaries (hereafter collectively referred to as "CDM Smith") reserves the right to require background checks including criminal, employment, education, licensure, etc. as well as credit and motor vehicle when applicable for certain positions. In addition, CDM Smith may conduct drug testing for designated positions. Background checks are conducted after an offer of employment has been made in the United States. The timing of when background checks will be conducted on candidates for positions outside the United States will vary based on country statutory law but in no case, will the background check precede an interview. CDM Smith will conduct interviews of qualified individuals prior to requesting a criminal background check, and no job application submitted prior to such interview shall inquire into an applicant's criminal history. If this position is subject to a background check for any convictions related to its responsibilities and requirements, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation including criminal history. Criminal history will not automatically disqualify a candidate. In addition, during employment individuals may be required by CDM Smith or a CDM Smith client to successfully complete additional background checks, including motor vehicle record as well as drug testing.
Visa Sponsorship Available
No - Please note that all applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada, for the Company, at the time of hire. Furthermore, this is not a position for which the Company is offering immigration application sponsorship or support.
CDM Smith currently has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager and Sales Leader with previous experience selling and managing municipal water services projects to join our Western Canada group. In this position, your primary role will be to lead the sales and successful delivery of engineering projects for our clients in the following areas of practice: facility planning, drinking water and wastewater treatment, biosolids, pump stations, pipelines, and water and sewer systems.
CDM Smith's Global Delivery Excellence Framework provides project managers with best-in-class tools and policies that streamline scope, schedule, and financial management. Project managers are also provided with project control specialists, contract administrators, and quality management support throughout the project planning, delivery, and closeout lifecycle. Senior Project Managers and Sales Leader's key performance indicators include revenue managed, profit delivered, cash flow, business development, proposals, on-time delivery, quality management system compliance, and individual utilization.
For more information about our Project Management roles, tools and culture, please visit this website https://bit.ly/2UC8V16.
As a member of this team, you would contribute to CDM Smith's mission by:
Managing and serving as the lead Project Manager for water, wastewater, stormwater, conveyance, and general municipal engineering projects.
Collaborate with sales teams to pre-position for upcoming projects and create proposals in response to RFPs
Meet with current and potential future clients to review their current and future project needs.
Providing technical guidance, senior leadership, and mentoring engineering staff to enhance our water services design capabilities.
Being responsible for planning and execution of scope, schedule and budget for projects managed.
Completing Quality Assurance/Quality Control reviews of key deliverables.
Assisting Client Service Leaders with technical marketing by meeting with clients in the region.
Participation in professional societies relevant to the industry.
Building and maintaining positive working relationships with key decision makers in our clients' organizations.
Perform technical engineering project work.
Providing excellent client service that generates repeat business.
Supporting proposal development and participating in interviews for new projects you will help deliver.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree.
13 years of related experience. PMP (PMI), CCM or DBIA certification is required (within 12 months of hire or promotion onto the Approved Project Manager list).
Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands.
Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Preferred Qualifications
P.Eng certification
Prior experience managing municipal water and wastewater treatment and/or conveyance projects in British Columbia greater than $1m.
Excellent communication, networking and team building skills.
Why CDM Smith?
Check out this video and find out why our team loves to work here!
Join Us! CDM Smith - where amazing career journeys unfold.
Imagine a place committed to offering an unmatched employee experience. Where you work on projects that are meaningful to you. Where you play an active part in shaping your career journey. Where your co-workers are invested in you and your success. Where you are encouraged and supported to do your very best and given the tools and resources to do so. Where it's a priority that the company takes good care of you and your family.
Our employees are the heart of our company. As an employer of choice, our goal is to provide a challenging, progressive and inclusive work environment which fosters personal leadership, career growth and development for every employee. We value passionate individuals who challenge the norm, deliver world-class solutions and bring diverse perspectives. Join our team, and together we will make a difference and change the world.
Background Check and Drug Testing Information
CDM Smith Inc. and its divisions and subsidiaries (hereafter collectively referred to as "CDM Smith") reserves the right to require background checks including criminal, employment, education, licensure, etc. as well as credit and motor vehicle when applicable for certain positions. In addition, CDM Smith may conduct drug testing for designated positions. Background checks are conducted after an offer of employment has been made in the United States. The timing of when background checks will be conducted on candidates for positions outside the United States will vary based on country statutory law but in no case, will the background check precede an interview. CDM Smith will conduct interviews of qualified individuals prior to requesting a criminal background check, and no job application submitted prior to such interview shall inquire into an applicant's criminal history. If this position is subject to a background check for any convictions related to its responsibilities and requirements, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation including criminal history. Criminal history will not automatically disqualify a candidate. In addition, during employment individuals may be required by CDM Smith or a CDM Smith client to successfully complete additional background checks, including motor vehicle record as well as drug testing.
Visa Sponsorship Available
No - Please note that all applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada, for the Company, at the time of hire. Furthermore, this is not a position for which the Company is offering immigration application sponsorship or support.