Construction Jobs in New Jersey
Construction jobs in New Jersey are in strong demand, driven by the state's ongoing infrastructure investment, dense residential development, and large-scale commercial projects across Newark, Jersey City, and the Route 1 corridor. Major employers with a lasting presence in the state include Turner Construction, Skanska USA, and Posillico, with steady openings at every level from laborer and apprentice to project superintendent and site manager. The most sought-after specialties are concrete and structural work, electrical and mechanical rough-in, and heavy civil infrastructure tied to NJDOT and NJ Transit projects. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Brown and Caldwell is seeking a Senior Project Manager focused on Private Sector and Municipal markets with a proven track record developing and delivering Environmental Construction Services (ECS) projects through collaborative at-risk delivery models, including design-build (DB), engineering-procurement-construction (EPC), construction management at risk (CMAR), and progressive forms thereof. Serving as Deputy to the Collaborative Delivery Enterprise (CDE) ECS Director, this leader will assemble and manage multidisciplinary teams across environmental science, engineering, compliance and permitting, cost estimating, procurement, pre-construction, construction, operations and maintenance (O&M), and external subcontractor and supplier partners to deliver integrated ECS solutions within our growing Construction Services (CS) practice. Targeted services include environmental remediation, mitigation, restoration, and closure projects, as well as smaller industrial and municipal water/wastewater projects, typically under $5M, involving new construction, modifications/upgrades, or pilot testing.
Success in this role requires strong networking, communication, and collaboration across BC business units, shared services, design services, and technical practices. The Senior Project Manager will provide development and delivery leadership for key private and municipal clients, including private-sector production markets such as distribution, food and beverage, mining, and manufacturing, as well as energy markets such as oil/gas, chemicals, power, and technology. The successful candidate will sustain and grow significant revenue by maintaining, leveraging, and expanding strong internal relationships along with key clients, subcontractors, and suppliers at national and local levels while aligning stakeholders to deliver CDE ECS assignments that meet company standards for safety, quality, risk management, and profitability and exceed client expectations.
**While this role may be remote with travel, candidates located near BC’s Ramsey New Jersey, New York City, or Philadelphia offices is preferred. Other locations of interest include Houston, Denver, Tampa/Orlando, Atlanta, Los Angeles/Irvine, Walnut Creek.
This role requires travel for multiple consecutive days and sometimes on weekends, up to 20% annually. This may include job-site duty for up to two weeks per trip home to support on-site construction and safety management.
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 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/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.
- Lead, develop, and coach a high-performing team by setting clear expectations, providing feedback, and fostering a culture of engagement, growth, and accountability.
- Oversee workload planning, performance management, and team operations to align resources with business objectives while ensuring compliance with company policies and regulations.
- Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.
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.
- Project management certification or ability to achieve in 6 months.
Preferred Experience
- Willing to travel for multiple consecutive days and sometimes on weekends, up to 20% annually. This may include jobsite duty for up to two weeks per trip home to support on-site construction and safety management
- Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in environmental engineering (or equivalent engineering) with 15+ years of consulting, design, construction, and operations / maintenance / monitoring experience involving environmental remediation, mitigation, restoration, and closure projects and water/wastewater treatment projects.
- Master of Science (MS) degree in environmental engineering (or equivalent engineering) preferred.
- Experience working on environmental construction services projects, including remediation, mitigation, restoration, closure, pilot testing, modifications/upgrades, or smaller water/wastewater construction efforts.
- Remediation experience to include in-ground and above-ground treatment process solutions and related water resource and waste management experience.
- Experience delivering projects using collaborative at-risk delivery models such as design-build, EPC, CMAR, and progressive versions thereof.
- Ability to partner across business units, client service teams, technical practices, shared services, and external subcontractor/supplier partners to support pursuit, planning, and delivery efforts.
- Experience contributing to business development, proposal development, presentations, client engagement, and cross-selling of project delivery or construction services.
- Experience with procurement, cost estimating, pre-construction planning, subcontractor coordination, schedule development, and resource planning.
- Demonstrated ability to support team development, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and scalable project delivery practices such as templates, toolkits, SOPs, or other process improvements.
Learn more about our work:
Climate Change and Resilience - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/services/climate-change/)
Data Center Water - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/services/data-center-water/)
Emerging Contaminants and PFAS - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/services/emerging-contaminants-and-pfas/)
Digital Solutions - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/services/smart-utility/)
News - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/news/)
Projects - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/projects/)
Industrial Water - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/services/industrial-water/)
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: $144,000 - $196,000
Location B: $158,000 - $216,000
Location C: $172,000 - $236,000
You can view which BC location applies to you here. (http://bit.ly/3uQe7gi) 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 (https://brownandcaldwell.com/careers/benefits/) 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. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com (http://www.brownandcaldwell.com)
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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
Brown and Caldwell is seeking a Senior Project Manager focused on Private Sector and Municipal markets with a proven track record developing and delivering Environmental Construction Services (ECS) projects through collaborative at-risk delivery models, including design-build (DB), engineering-procurement-construction (EPC), construction management at risk (CMAR), and progressive forms thereof. Serving as Deputy to the Collaborative Delivery Enterprise (CDE) ECS Director, this leader will assemble and manage multidisciplinary teams across environmental science, engineering, compliance and permitting, cost estimating, procurement, pre-construction, construction, operations and maintenance (O&M), and external subcontractor and supplier partners to deliver integrated ECS solutions within our growing Construction Services (CS) practice. Targeted services include environmental remediation, mitigation, restoration, and closure projects, as well as smaller industrial and municipal water/wastewater projects, typically under $5M, involving new construction, modifications/upgrades, or pilot testing.
Success in this role requires strong networking, communication, and collaboration across BC business units, shared services, design services, and technical practices. The Senior Project Manager will provide development and delivery leadership for key private and municipal clients, including private-sector production markets such as distribution, food and beverage, mining, and manufacturing, as well as energy markets such as oil/gas, chemicals, power, and technology. The successful candidate will sustain and grow significant revenue by maintaining, leveraging, and expanding strong internal relationships along with key clients, subcontractors, and suppliers at national and local levels while aligning stakeholders to deliver CDE ECS assignments that meet company standards for safety, quality, risk management, and profitability and exceed client expectations.
**While this role may be remote with travel, candidates located near BC’s Ramsey New Jersey, New York City, or Philadelphia offices is preferred. Other locations of interest include Houston, Denver, Tampa/Orlando, Atlanta, Los Angeles/Irvine, Walnut Creek.
This role requires travel for multiple consecutive days and sometimes on weekends, up to 20% annually. This may include job-site duty for up to two weeks per trip home to support on-site construction and safety management.
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 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/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.
- Lead, develop, and coach a high-performing team by setting clear expectations, providing feedback, and fostering a culture of engagement, growth, and accountability.
- Oversee workload planning, performance management, and team operations to align resources with business objectives while ensuring compliance with company policies and regulations.
- Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.
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.
- Project management certification or ability to achieve in 6 months.
Preferred Experience
- Willing to travel for multiple consecutive days and sometimes on weekends, up to 20% annually. This may include jobsite duty for up to two weeks per trip home to support on-site construction and safety management
- Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in environmental engineering (or equivalent engineering) with 15+ years of consulting, design, construction, and operations / maintenance / monitoring experience involving environmental remediation, mitigation, restoration, and closure projects and water/wastewater treatment projects.
- Master of Science (MS) degree in environmental engineering (or equivalent engineering) preferred.
- Experience working on environmental construction services projects, including remediation, mitigation, restoration, closure, pilot testing, modifications/upgrades, or smaller water/wastewater construction efforts.
- Remediation experience to include in-ground and above-ground treatment process solutions and related water resource and waste management experience.
- Experience delivering projects using collaborative at-risk delivery models such as design-build, EPC, CMAR, and progressive versions thereof.
- Ability to partner across business units, client service teams, technical practices, shared services, and external subcontractor/supplier partners to support pursuit, planning, and delivery efforts.
- Experience contributing to business development, proposal development, presentations, client engagement, and cross-selling of project delivery or construction services.
- Experience with procurement, cost estimating, pre-construction planning, subcontractor coordination, schedule development, and resource planning.
- Demonstrated ability to support team development, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and scalable project delivery practices such as templates, toolkits, SOPs, or other process improvements.
Learn more about our work:
Climate Change and Resilience - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/services/climate-change/)
Data Center Water - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/services/data-center-water/)
Emerging Contaminants and PFAS - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/services/emerging-contaminants-and-pfas/)
Digital Solutions - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/services/smart-utility/)
News - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/news/)
Projects - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/projects/)
Industrial Water - Brown and Caldwell (https://brownandcaldwell.com/services/industrial-water/)
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: $144,000 - $196,000
Location B: $158,000 - $216,000
Location C: $172,000 - $236,000
You can view which BC location applies to you here. (http://bit.ly/3uQe7gi) 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 (https://brownandcaldwell.com/careers/benefits/) 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. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com (http://www.brownandcaldwell.com)
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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
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What New Jersey Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in construction jobs across New Jersey.
- Active registration with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs as required by trade
- Completion of an apprenticeship program through a state-approved or union-affiliated sponsor
- OSHA 10 or OSHA 30 construction safety certification for site work
- Proven experience reading blueprints, construction drawings, and project specifications
- Valid driver's license and reliable transportation to reach job sites across the region
- Familiarity with New Jersey building codes and local municipal permitting requirements
Construction Jobs in New Jersey: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a construction worker in New Jersey?
The most direct path is completing a registered apprenticeship through a union or trade association affiliated with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Most trades, including electricians, plumbers, and ironworkers, require state licensure through the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs after finishing an approved program and passing a trade exam. Entry-level positions in general labor are available without a license, but earning a recognized credential speeds hiring considerably.
Which companies hire construction workers in New Jersey?
Companies currently hiring constructions in New Jersey include Compliance Management International, T&M Associates, and Kiely Family of Companies, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. New Jersey's volume of public infrastructure, transit expansion, and mixed-use urban development keeps large regional and national contractors active in the state year-round.
Which New Jersey cities have the most construction jobs?
Jersey City, Long Branch, and Mount Laurel have the most construction openings in New Jersey. Newark and Jersey City lead because of large-scale mixed-use, transit, and public infrastructure investment, while smaller corridor cities along Route 1 and Route 9 see steady activity from industrial and warehouse development tied to the region's distribution economy.
Are there remote construction jobs in New Jersey?
Yes, but they're rare. About 20% of construction openings tied to New Jersey are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting that most construction work is inherently on-site and hands-on. The roles most likely to allow remote or hybrid arrangements are estimating, project management, scheduling, and procurement positions that do not require a daily site presence.
How can I get hired as a construction worker in New Jersey with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry point is a pre-apprenticeship or registered apprenticeship program through a New Jersey Building Trades Council affiliate, which provides paid on-the-job training alongside classroom hours. General laborer and construction helper roles at large contractors like Turner Construction or Skanska USA often require no prior experience. Earning your OSHA 10 certification before applying gives candidates a clear edge and signals job-site readiness to hiring supervisors.
Where can I find and apply to construction jobs in New Jersey?
You can find and apply to construction jobs in New Jersey on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Search for roles that match your trade, experience level, and preferred location, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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