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Brown and Caldwell hires Engineering Managers to lead multidisciplinary teams on environmental and infrastructure projects across the U.S. The firm has an established process for supporting international hires through visa sponsorship, making it a realistic target for qualified engineers pursuing long-term U.S. careers.
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The Project Management role involves planning, executing, and overseeing projects so that they are completed on time, within budget, while meeting all quality standards and health and safety requirements. The role works closely with cross-functional teams to define project scope, set objectives, allocate resources, and develop detailed project plans. The role monitors progress, manages risks and change, resolves challenges, and communicates with stakeholders to provide regular updates. The role focuses on further developing essential project management techniques and an understanding of the company's product/services. The role manages small projects and collaborates with team members on larger or moderately complex projects. Working under clearly defined guidelines and supervision, the role leads small projects, so that each one is completed within the set scope, schedule and budget.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include the following for delivering day-to-day operations for small projects:
- Project team leadership expectations:
- Set direction: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team by providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve.
- Communicate: Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
- Support Team Motivation: Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating successes.
- Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
- Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
- Execution of BC’s project delivery requirements:
- Scope: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Develop clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
- Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures if needed.
- Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set project up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet planned project performance metrics.
- Quality Management: Create implement and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality review processes and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.
- Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks. Identify and recommend change management, in collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the change order, and gain client endorsement and approval for the change to minimize financial and execution risk to BC.
- Risk Management: Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle. Identify and escalate risks, collaborate with teams to prepare mitigation strategies for each risk, monetization of each risk, and update the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a project.
- Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety. Lead development and implementation of health and safety plans per the project specific requirements.
- Manage external resources: including third parties/vendors to deliver successfully on their contracted scope, quality, budget and schedule.
- Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics: Lead achievement of project goals related to scope, schedule, budget and quality. Monitor profitability through routine earned value analysis and compliance, business revenue forecasting and timely invoicing.
- Client Service and Sales/Marketing Support and Engagement: Ability to build successful relationships with Clients, while collaborating with client service managers and project teams to assess client satisfaction. Monitor and share clients’ critical success factors for project success and client satisfaction.
- Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.
Skills and Competencies
- Working knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including project planning, budget management and risk management.
- Foundational understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
- Familiarity with contract management and client service.
- Basic business acumen with understanding of how individual projects fit into larger organizational goals.
- Good communication and client services skills.
- Good team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships.
Experience
Typically, a minimum of 2 years of project management or relevant task management experience successfully contributing to projects of varying complexity with progressively increasing responsibility. Specifically:
* Competency in development and monitoring of simple project schedules
* Competency in development and monitoring of simple project budgets
* Introductory experience with risk management concepts
* Experience operating in a team environment.
Education
A bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering or business administration, or equivalent relevant experience is required.
Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Location A: $78,000 - $106,000
Location B: $85,000 - $116,000
Location C: $93,000 - $127,000
You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter.
Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.
About Brown and Caldwell
Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction services firm with 50 offices and over 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice—to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities.
This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.
Notice to Third Party Agencies: Brown and Caldwell does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement and approved engagement request with Brown and Caldwell, Brown and Caldwell reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.
Brown and Caldwell is proud to be an EEO/AAP Employer. Brown and Caldwell encourages protected veterans, individuals with disabilities, and applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Brown and Caldwell ensures nondiscrimination in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Job Summary
The Project Management role involves planning, executing, and overseeing projects so that they are completed on time, within budget, while meeting all quality standards and health and safety requirements. The role works closely with cross-functional teams to define project scope, set objectives, allocate resources, and develop detailed project plans. The role monitors progress, manages risks and change, resolves challenges, and communicates with stakeholders to provide regular updates. The role focuses on further developing essential project management techniques and an understanding of the company's product/services. The role manages small projects and collaborates with team members on larger or moderately complex projects. Working under clearly defined guidelines and supervision, the role leads small projects, so that each one is completed within the set scope, schedule and budget.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include the following for delivering day-to-day operations for small projects:
- Project team leadership expectations:
- Set direction: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team by providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve.
- Communicate: Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
- Support Team Motivation: Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating successes.
- Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
- Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
- Execution of BC’s project delivery requirements:
- Scope: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Develop clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
- Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures if needed.
- Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set project up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet planned project performance metrics.
- Quality Management: Create implement and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality review processes and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.
- Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks. Identify and recommend change management, in collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the change order, and gain client endorsement and approval for the change to minimize financial and execution risk to BC.
- Risk Management: Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle. Identify and escalate risks, collaborate with teams to prepare mitigation strategies for each risk, monetization of each risk, and update the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a project.
- Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety. Lead development and implementation of health and safety plans per the project specific requirements.
- Manage external resources: including third parties/vendors to deliver successfully on their contracted scope, quality, budget and schedule.
- Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics: Lead achievement of project goals related to scope, schedule, budget and quality. Monitor profitability through routine earned value analysis and compliance, business revenue forecasting and timely invoicing.
- Client Service and Sales/Marketing Support and Engagement: Ability to build successful relationships with Clients, while collaborating with client service managers and project teams to assess client satisfaction. Monitor and share clients’ critical success factors for project success and client satisfaction.
- Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.
Skills and Competencies
- Working knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including project planning, budget management and risk management.
- Foundational understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
- Familiarity with contract management and client service.
- Basic business acumen with understanding of how individual projects fit into larger organizational goals.
- Good communication and client services skills.
- Good team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships.
Experience
Typically, a minimum of 2 years of project management or relevant task management experience successfully contributing to projects of varying complexity with progressively increasing responsibility. Specifically:
* Competency in development and monitoring of simple project schedules
* Competency in development and monitoring of simple project budgets
* Introductory experience with risk management concepts
* Experience operating in a team environment.
Education
A bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering or business administration, or equivalent relevant experience is required.
Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Location A: $78,000 - $106,000
Location B: $85,000 - $116,000
Location C: $93,000 - $127,000
You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter.
Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.
About Brown and Caldwell
Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction services firm with 50 offices and over 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice—to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities.
This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.
Notice to Third Party Agencies: Brown and Caldwell does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement and approved engagement request with Brown and Caldwell, Brown and Caldwell reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.
Brown and Caldwell is proud to be an EEO/AAP Employer. Brown and Caldwell encourages protected veterans, individuals with disabilities, and applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Brown and Caldwell ensures nondiscrimination in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
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Align your credentials with PE licensing expectations
Brown and Caldwell's Engineering Manager roles frequently expect a Professional Engineer license or active pursuit of one. If your credentials are from outside the U.S., get a foreign degree evaluation completed before applying so you can address equivalency upfront.
Target project management experience in environmental sectors
Brown and Caldwell focuses on water, wastewater, and environmental consulting. Engineering Manager candidates who frame their experience around these sectors, rather than general civil or structural work, get materially further in the process.
Search open roles by practice area on Migrate Mate
Brown and Caldwell posts Engineering Manager roles across multiple service lines. Use Migrate Mate to filter by sponsorship-eligible positions so you're only pursuing openings where visa support is confirmed from the start.
Clarify TN eligibility before applying if Canadian or Mexican
Engineering Manager roles at consulting firms can qualify under TN status if the underlying duties are engineering-based. Confirm with your attorney that the job description's core functions meet DOL's TN engineer category before accepting an offer.
Prepare a client-facing leadership narrative for interviews
Brown and Caldwell evaluates Engineering Managers on client relationship management, not just technical output. Structure your interview examples around how you've grown client accounts or led proposal efforts, since those skills directly map to how the firm bills senior engineering talent.
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Does Brown and Caldwell sponsor H-1B visas for Engineering Managers?
Yes, Brown and Caldwell sponsors H-1B visas for Engineering Manager roles. As an environmental and infrastructure consulting firm with ongoing demand for specialized engineering talent, the company has an established process for filing H-1B petitions. Because these roles typically require a specific technical degree and meet the specialty occupation standard, they align well with H-1B eligibility criteria as defined by USCIS.
How do I apply for Engineering Manager jobs at Brown and Caldwell?
You can find and apply for Engineering Manager positions at Brown and Caldwell directly through their careers portal or through Migrate Mate, which filters for sponsorship-eligible roles. Applications typically require a resume, a summary of relevant project leadership experience, and often references to specific technical disciplines such as water resources, environmental remediation, or municipal infrastructure. Tailoring your materials to Brown and Caldwell's consulting focus significantly strengthens your application.
Which visa types does Brown and Caldwell use for Engineering Manager roles?
Brown and Caldwell sponsors several visa categories for Engineering Manager positions, including H-1B, TN (for Canadian and Mexican nationals), F-1 OPT and CPT for recent graduates transitioning into full-time roles, J-1 for exchange visitors, and employment-based Green Card pathways including EB-2 and EB-3 for longer-term hires. The appropriate visa depends on your nationality, degree background, and where you are in the immigration process.
What qualifications does Brown and Caldwell expect for Engineering Manager roles?
Brown and Caldwell generally expects a bachelor's or master's degree in civil, environmental, mechanical, or a related engineering discipline, along with several years of progressively responsible project management experience. A Professional Engineer license is either required or strongly preferred for most Engineering Manager openings. Experience managing client relationships, leading proposal efforts, and overseeing multidisciplinary project teams in an environmental or infrastructure consulting context is a consistent expectation across their posted roles.
How long does the visa sponsorship process take for an Engineering Manager offer at Brown and Caldwell?
For H-1B sponsorship, standard USCIS processing runs three to six months after the April lottery selection, with premium processing available to reduce that to 15 business days. F-1 OPT transitions can begin earlier in the hiring timeline. For Green Card sponsorship via PERM, expect 12 to 18 months just for the labor certification stage. Aligning on sponsorship type and timeline expectations with your hiring contact early in the offer process avoids delays on both sides.
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