Project Manager - Water/Wastewater Engineering

Ardurra is looking to hire an experienced Water/Wastewater Project Manager to join our team in Houston, TX!

Due to a significant expansion of work across Texas, our Houston office is actively scaling to support a large and diverse portfolio of complex water and wastewater projects, creating exceptional opportunities for senior-level professionals who want to make an immediate impact.

Our water and wastewater teams deliver high-profile, technically challenging infrastructure projects for municipal and regional water authorities. Our work is heavily focused on water and wastewater treatment facilities, advanced treatment technologies, and specialty process-driven projects, supported by integrated planning, design, permitting, and construction-phase services.

As a recognized leader in the Texas water industry, Ardurra offers the chance to step into a high-visibility leadership role within a fast-growing, well-resourced organization committed to long-term investment in people, clients, and innovation.

Primary Function:

The Project Manager (PM) manages the full life cycle (proposal-initiation-execution/control-closeout) of projects and assumes full responsibility for achieving the project goals. This includes managing activities related to project planning, scope, schedule, cost, cash flow, quality, communications, resources, procurement, profit/loss, corrective actions, and risk elements required to optimize client service, quality, and fiscal responsibility. The Project Manager’s overall objective is to deliver value to our clients and to Ardurra, build and maintain a positive client relationship, and achieve or exceed the estimated profit margin for the project.

The Project Manager’s objective is to deliver outstanding client outcomes, maintain trusted client relationships, and consistently achieve strong financial performance while helping to scale Ardurra’s Texas water practice.

Primary Duties:

• Project Planning and Execution
  • Identifying project goals and developing scopes, budgets and schedules
  • Use Earned Value Management (EVM) to execute, manage, monitor, and control project financials
  • Manage change & take corrective actions to achieve project success
  • Ensuring Quality Control reviews are completed at proper milestones
  • Manage & minimize project risks for the interest of Ardurra
  • Knowing and understanding contract requirements
  • Tracking Accounts Receivable and ensuring that invoices are paid in a timely manner
• Team Leadership
  • Forms a highly effective work team and sees that responsibilities are assigned, and execution of tasks are begun and completed according to schedule
  • Keeps team informed of project progress and roadblocks
  • On-site supervision maintains staff morale and interacts appropriately with client counterparts
• Communication
  • Establishes contractor-client liaison network to keep all interested parties informed of project planning, start date, and work progress
  • Participates in regularly scheduled project status review (PSR) meetings to ensure that:
    • A project contract’s terms, conditions, and specifications are being met
    • Project personnel adhere to federal and state regulatory requirements and company policies
    • Delays and cost overruns, at best, are entirely avoided, or, at worst, kept to a minimum
    • Manpower, equipment, materials, and quality problems are recognized for timely intervention and resolution
    • Information for progress billing purposes is submitted correctly and on time
    • Client sales and/or assists the Client Service Manager (CSM)
  • Maintains a continuing business relationship with clients as part of ongoing business development efforts

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent

• 5-8+ years of experience in water and wastewater project delivery

• Proven success managing large, complex engineering projects with multidisciplinary teams

• Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred; state licensing requirements may apply

• Demonstrated ability to manage clients, mentor staff, and deliver strong financial performance

• Experience supporting proposals and growth initiatives is strongly preferred

Why Ardurra?

While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun. We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home.

Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

Ardurra does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agency Agreement, Ardurra will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. If a resume or candidate is submitted to any hiring manager without a previously signed agreement, Ardurra reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. These candidates will be considered property of Ardurra. We’re not currently looking to add any more agencies to our list of approved vendors, so please do not contact any of our managers or recruitment team with sales calls or details of your candidates.

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