Assistant Project Manager - Green Stormwater Infrastructure
McAdams is a full-service land planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering, transportation and geomatics firm located in North Carolina, Texas and Florida. We seek a partnership with our clients to create meaningful experiences through inspired design. Our employees are what makes McAdams different. We bring experiences to the forefront of everything we do and to do that takes special people.
Position Purpose
The Assistant Project Manager position provides design leadership and oversight of design support staff for green stormwater infrastructure. This position reports to practice leadership or other more senior position within a familial stormwater team. Assistant Project Managers will coordinate with a larger multidisciplinary project team to deliver a variety of projects for both public and private clients while being mentored toward a Project Management role. The APM interacts with clients to assure their satisfaction, promotes responsiveness. Specific responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Provide technical and task leadership to all types of projects within the group.
- Showing the emerging responsibility for the coordination and completion of projects.
- Working with the PM to deliver GSI projects by working with the project team, setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring project progress.
- Be on the forefront of an evolving green design market; developing innovative environmental protection strategies.
- Working on stormwater designs, retrofits, construction drawings, and watershed planning studies.
- Collaborate daily with Planners and Landscape Architects to enhance stormwater designs and integrate stormwater into site architecture which reduce flooding and/or improve water quality
- Work with a number of client types including residential and commercial development, campuses, multimodal transportation, greenways, and parks
- Compile and present findings and results of studies and analyses and write reports.
- Help build a diverse engineering group and mentor designers.
- Field work and site visits from study or design through construction
Qualifications
- Four-year bachelor’s degree from an accredited program in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Civil Engineering Technology, Landscape Architecture, or related field
- Registered PE in North Carolina or Texas, or the ability and desire to be licensed within 4 months
- 5+ years of design experience in water resources, civil engineering or GSI
- Experience with AutoCAD
- Excellent communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Self-starter with strong drive to better oneself, project team, and community
Preferences
- Experience with SCM design and modeling
- Understanding of common stormwater regulations and permitting requirements
- Civil 3D
- Exposure to ArcGIS Pro or other GIS Software
- Experience with hydrograph routing and open channel modeling
McAdams is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran's status, or any other legally protected status.
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