Project Manager - Land Development - WGA Consulting Engineers

WGA is a Houston-based professional consulting firm that was founded in 2007, WGA has experienced steady growth in a competitive market. This expansion is a result of our strong commitment to our clients providing them with the highest quality of work and service. We built our practice on the foundational beliefs that creative design drives successful projects, and that collaborative working relationships with municipalities, permitting authorities and local and state agencies yield tangible results throughout the development process. Our extensive range of experience includes industrial, commercial, large mixed-use, energy, hospitality, healthcare, education, municipal and multi- and single-family residential projects. From large-scale industrial projects to preliminary feasibility studies, our goal is to provide value through creative and cost-effective design solutions. We have 4 locations across Texas: Houston, The Woodlands, Austin and San Antonio.

Responsibilities

As a Project Manager in our Land Development Department at WGA, you will provide oversight of projects while developing a team the WGA way. You will work with our clients and a team of engineers and technical support professionals to complete each task to be best in class. You will also:

• Lead team of engineers and other technical staff to successfully deliver single family development projects.
• Be respectful of client timelines through effective coordination of project tasks, budgets and schedules
• Participate in the development of company design and production standards to continue excellence within our technical expertise
• Be open to new ways of accomplishing goals
• Seek guidance from other leaders; be open to suggestions in various aspects of project management
• Applies diversified knowledge of principles / practices in broad areas of assignments.
• Makes decisions independently on problems and methods
• Engineering planning, analysis, design, estimating, contracting, project management, construction and delivery phases for Land Development
• Plans, schedules, conducts or coordinates detailed phases of a major project
• Selects procedures and checks complete reports and calculations
• Develop understanding and follow WGA with QA/QC procedures and understands basic business practice and laws related to area of practice
• Building and maintaining relationships between project teams and collaborating to ensure that technical, quality, cost and client requirements are implemented
• Coordinating with outside sub-consultants
• Preparing a range of reports to communicate project information to team members, clients, and other stakeholders
• The candidate must have experience in handling multiple simultaneous projects, and a desire to work in a multi-disciplinary team
• Represents WGA in client and industry related conferences, organizations, and meetings.
• Develop trusting professional relationships with clients, public agency officials and community leaders
• Prepare proposals, scopes of work and contract cost estimates and requires an understanding of multi-disciplinary team coordination
• Lead and mentor junior members of WGA to provide best in class service.

Qualifications

• ±5 years of experience
• BS degree in Civil, Environmental, or Water Resources Engineering
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) designation in the State of Texas
• Civil design with a minimum of 2 years' experience managing a team and clients for the completion of single family, residential projects from conception to completion including estimating costs of technical tasks
• Extensive knowledge of design and construction practices which, by passing on that knowledge to others will aid in your success
• Proven experience and willingness to identify new opportunities with existing clients as well as having the confidence and ability to develop new client partnerships
• Proven ability to effectively and respectfully communicate, both oral and written skills, with all level of employees
• Proven ability to develop and maintain professional relationships with clients, public agency officials and community leaders

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