Senior Water/Wastewater Project Manager
Garver · Tampa, FL ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- Project management
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Wastewater pump stations, lift stations, and force mains
- Water booster and repump stations, transmission mains, and storage facilities
- Wastewater collection and water distribution system rehabilitation
- Water, wastewater, and reclaimed-water treatment improvements
- Utility master planning, condition assessment, and hydraulic modeling
- Equalization, wet-weather, resiliency, and system-consolidation projects
- Serve as project manager and primary client contact for municipal water and wastewater assignments.
- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, risk, invoicing, forecasting, change management, and overall financial performance.
- Develop and maintain trusted relationships with municipal utility clients throughout Tampa Bay and Florida.
- Identify project opportunities and lead pursuit strategy, proposals, interviews, scope and fee development, and contract negotiations in coordination with Water Business Line leadership.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams through planning, design, permitting, bidding, construction, startup, and closeout.
- Coordinate technical specialists, support disciplines, subconsultants, and construction-phase personnel while remaining accountable for overall project quality.
- Facilitate client, stakeholder, and technical workshops and communicate project status, decisions, risks, and required actions clearly.
- Mentor project managers and engineers and assist with recruiting and development of the Tampa Water team.
- Participate in relevant professional and industry organizations and represent Garver in the Florida water market.
- Bachelor’s degree in civil, environmental, chemical, or a related engineering discipline from an ABET-accredited program.
- At least 12 years of progressively responsible municipal water and wastewater engineering or consulting experience.
- At least five years of successful project management experience, including responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, quality, financial performance, and client satisfaction.
- Licensed as a Professional Engineer in Florida, or able to obtain Florida licensure by endorsement within six months of employment.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary water or wastewater infrastructure projects through design and construction.
- Demonstrated ability to develop scopes, fees, schedules, staffing plans, and project delivery strategies.
- Strong written, verbal, client-service, negotiation, and team-leadership skills.
- Established professional relationships within the Tampa Bay or broader Florida municipal utility market.
- Experience leading proposals and interviews for publicly procured professional services.
- Experience managing pump station, pipeline, storage, treatment, rehabilitation, or utility-planning projects.
- Experience with collaborative delivery methods such as CMAR, design-build, or progressive design-build.
- Demonstrated success mentoring staff and developing project management talent.
- Relevant professional credentials, such as DBIA, PMP, or ENV SP, and active participation in organizations such as AWWA or WEF.
Garver offers its employees programs such as company-paid professional memberships, company support for industry licenses and continuing education opportunities that foster a progressive atmosphere. Garver provides the tools, resources, and environment to develop leaders, stimulate ideas, and accomplish projects. By offering highly competitive salary packages, attractive benefits, and a comprehensive wellness program; Garver walks the talk when it comes to work-life balance.
Founded in 1919, Garver is an employee-owned engineering, planning, and environmental services firm focused on aviation, transportation, buildings, federal, water and wastewater services; surveying; advisory services; and construction engineering and inspection. In the top 100 of Engineering News-Record's Top 500 Design Firms list, with more than 1,400 employees, Garver has a people-first culture that drives innovative, client-first service and is consistently recognized as a best firm to work for by Zweig Group. Learn how Garver invests in people and places they call home at GarverUSA.com.
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