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The Sr. Project Management role works to plan, execute, and oversee projects to be completed on time, within budget, while meeting 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 typically manages mid-sized to large projects and is expected to independently deliver results with minimal supervision, while progressively increasing revenue responsibility.
In addition to the project management duties, this role will also provide strategic leadership as the Client Service Manager (CSM) for assigned clients, working in partnership with Market and Area leadership to deliver projects that achieve business objectives related to client satisfaction, growth, and financial performance. This role maintains full ownership of the client relationship, acting as the trusted advisor and primary point of accountability for overall performance, including growth, delivery quality, and client experience. The CSM coordinates and leads cross-functional delivery teams, aligning resources, setting clear expectations, and driving execution across the portfolio to ensure commitments are met and outcomes are successfully delivered.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include the following for delivering day-to-day operations for mid-sized to large-scale 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 success.
- Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
- Create a safe environment: Support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
- Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
- Develop team members: Support team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring.
- 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 for timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures as needed.
- Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set a project up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet financial plan.
- 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, 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 and budget.
- 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/collections.
- 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.
MENTORSHIP
May provide mentorship, guidance, support and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow in their roles.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management tools and techniques.
- Proven ability in project planning and management, including budget, risk, contract, change and quality management and safety leadership.
- Advanced understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
- Comprehensive understanding of contract management and client service.
- Strong business acumen and ability to align project outcomes with business goals.
- Excellent client service skills and ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
- Proven team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships.
- Proven ability to identify and cultivate opportunities with existing clients.
Experience
Typically, a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience managing mid-size to large projects with progressively increasing responsibility. Specifically:
* Competency in development and monitoring of moderate project schedules.
* Competency in development and monitoring of moderate project budgets.
* Competency in Risk Management.
* Experience leading cross functional teams.
* Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management, and contract management of mid-size projects.
* Previous experience applying specialized knowledge in project management to deliver the solutions for clients.
Education
A bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, 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: $117,000 - $159,000
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.
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
INTRODUCTION
The Sr. Project Management role works to plan, execute, and oversee projects to be completed on time, within budget, while meeting 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 typically manages mid-sized to large projects and is expected to independently deliver results with minimal supervision, while progressively increasing revenue responsibility.
In addition to the project management duties, this role will also provide strategic leadership as the Client Service Manager (CSM) for assigned clients, working in partnership with Market and Area leadership to deliver projects that achieve business objectives related to client satisfaction, growth, and financial performance. This role maintains full ownership of the client relationship, acting as the trusted advisor and primary point of accountability for overall performance, including growth, delivery quality, and client experience. The CSM coordinates and leads cross-functional delivery teams, aligning resources, setting clear expectations, and driving execution across the portfolio to ensure commitments are met and outcomes are successfully delivered.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include the following for delivering day-to-day operations for mid-sized to large-scale 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 success.
- Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
- Create a safe environment: Support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
- Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
- Develop team members: Support team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring.
- 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 for timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures as needed.
- Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set a project up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet financial plan.
- 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, 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 and budget.
- 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/collections.
- 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.
MENTORSHIP
May provide mentorship, guidance, support and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow in their roles.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management tools and techniques.
- Proven ability in project planning and management, including budget, risk, contract, change and quality management and safety leadership.
- Advanced understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
- Comprehensive understanding of contract management and client service.
- Strong business acumen and ability to align project outcomes with business goals.
- Excellent client service skills and ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
- Proven team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships.
- Proven ability to identify and cultivate opportunities with existing clients.
Experience
Typically, a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience managing mid-size to large projects with progressively increasing responsibility. Specifically:
* Competency in development and monitoring of moderate project schedules.
* Competency in development and monitoring of moderate project budgets.
* Competency in Risk Management.
* Experience leading cross functional teams.
* Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management, and contract management of mid-size projects.
* Previous experience applying specialized knowledge in project management to deliver the solutions for clients.
Education
A bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, 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: $117,000 - $159,000
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.
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
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Align your credentials with PE licensure expectations
Brown and Caldwell frequently lists Professional Engineer licensure as preferred for senior project roles. Getting your credentials evaluated and understanding which state PE reciprocity pathways apply strengthens your candidacy before you apply.
Target roles tied to active federal contracts
Project Program Manager openings linked to EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, or municipal water infrastructure contracts tend to have longer project horizons, which makes employers more willing to invest in H-1B sponsorship for the right candidate.
Prepare your specialty occupation documentation early
For H-1B petitions in project management roles, USCIS scrutinizes whether the position genuinely requires a specialized degree. Gather job descriptions, your degree transcripts, and any PMP or technical certifications before the offer stage, not after.
Ask about sponsorship policy during the offer stage
Brown and Caldwell handles sponsorship decisions at the hiring manager and HR level, not centrally. Raise your visa situation directly when the offer conversation begins so the team can confirm internal approval before you give notice elsewhere.
Use Migrate Mate to filter open roles by sponsorship type
Brown and Caldwell posts Project Program Manager positions across multiple regions at different seniority levels. Migrate Mate lets you filter those openings by the specific visa category you need, so you're only spending time on roles where sponsorship is confirmed.
Understand the PERM timeline if you need a Green Card
If you're targeting permanent residence through EB-2 or EB-3, PERM labor certification with DOL currently takes 12 to 18 months before an I-140 can be filed. Discuss green card intentions with the hiring team upfront so both sides can plan realistically.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Brown and Caldwell sponsor H-1B visas for Project Program Managers?
Yes, Brown and Caldwell has a history of sponsoring H-1B visas for Project Program Managers, particularly in environmental engineering and infrastructure consulting functions. Because USCIS requires the role to qualify as a specialty occupation, candidates with a technical bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field, such as civil or environmental engineering, are in the strongest position.
Which visa types are commonly used for Project Program Manager roles at Brown and Caldwell?
H-1B is the most common path for full-time Project Program Manager hires at Brown and Caldwell. The firm also sponsors F-1 OPT and CPT for early-career candidates and supports TN visas for Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying engineering and management roles. Candidates pursuing long-term residency may be sponsored for EB-2 or EB-3 Green Card pathways after an initial period of employment.
What qualifications or experience are expected for Project Program Manager roles at Brown and Caldwell?
Most Project Program Manager openings at Brown and Caldwell expect a bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, or a related engineering discipline, along with several years of project management experience in consulting or infrastructure environments. PMP certification and Professional Engineer licensure are frequently preferred. Familiarity with water, wastewater, or environmental remediation project delivery is a consistent theme across posted roles.
How do I apply for Project Program Manager jobs at Brown and Caldwell?
You can find and apply for Project Program Manager roles at Brown and Caldwell through Migrate Mate, which aggregates open positions and filters by visa sponsorship type so you can confirm eligibility before applying. Applications typically require a resume and cover letter through the company's careers portal. Tailoring your application to reflect relevant infrastructure or environmental consulting experience increases your chances of moving to the interview stage.
How do I plan my timeline if I need H-1B sponsorship for a role at Brown and Caldwell?
The standard H-1B cap lottery opens in March for an October 1 start date, so aligning your offer and onboarding timeline with that window matters. If you're currently on F-1 OPT, confirm your OPT expiration date and whether a STEM extension is available to bridge the gap. Brown and Caldwell can file before the lottery opens, but the petition can only be submitted after USCIS selects your registration.