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Civil Project Manager
Job Description
Our client, a well-known Civil Engineering firm in Brookfield is looking to add a Civil Project Manager to their team. The Civil Project Manager is responsible for leading engineering projects from design through delivery, ensuring technical quality, financial performance, and client satisfaction. The Civil Project Manager provides direction and mentorship to project teams, manages project resources, contracts, risk, and maintains accountability for all design and project decisions. This role ensures excellence in project execution by guiding teams, fostering strong client engagement, and aligning project outcomes with firm standards and professional obligations.
Core Responsibilities:
- Act in responsible charge of overall engineering project design, delivery, and firm
- Demonstrate ethical leadership, sound judgment, and total accountability for project outcomes, including technical quality, financial performance, and client
- Lead, inspire, and motivate multidisciplinary project teams through mentoring, recognition, team-building, and
- Establish and manage project scope, schedules, staffing plans, and budgets to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
- Coordinate all aspects of engineering design, plan production, and project delivery, meeting established deadlines.
- Serve as the sole point of responsibility for project-level QC/QA, ensuring adherence to firm standards, applicable codes, and regulatory requirements, and coaching teams on quality
- Provide high-level technical oversight, relying on professional judgment, experience, and providing direction to subordinates or reports, rather than direct drafting or
- Guide teams in developing appropriate, defensible engineering solutions and accept full responsibility for design
- Develop and grow strong client relationships, support team members in client communication and satisfaction
- Lead preparation, review, and negotiation of contracts, amendments, and scope
- Manage project financials, engineering economics, risk exposure, and overall profitability in alignment with firm goals.
- Lead and negotiate critical and potentially controversial technical, contractual, or schedule issues internally and
- Coordinate all project communications directly or through delegation, ensuring clarity, responsiveness, and alignment across teams.
- Mentor engineers and project staff at all levels; assign mentors and ensure mentoring occurs consistently across teams and the
- Ensure all work is performed in accordance with company standards, safety policies, and professional engineering
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an ABET-accredited engineering program or related
- Professional Engineer (PE) license is
- 10+ years of relevant engineering project management
- Demonstrated experience acting in responsible charge of engineering
- Strong communication, organization, and interpersonal skills for internal and external
- Experience leading complex or multi-disciplinary civil
- Strong background in QC/QA, understanding of project financial reporting, and risk
- Experience interacting directly with clients, agencies, and the
Meet Your Recruiter
Nicole Mortell, CPC
Partner, Vice President of Sales
Nicole earned her Bachelor of Arts from UW-Oshkosh and began her staffing career shortly after graduation. Quickly, Nicole found her passion rising to top producer year after year and from there in 2006 she became one of the founding Partners of AllianceStaff. Today as Partner and VP of Sales and Marketing, she remains on the front lines of recruitment and client management, while simultaneously fostering the growth of AllianceStaff by identifying key business development opportunities and training team members to develop their own desks. Nicole partners with companies across a wide range of industries to understand their hiring needs and to help them build the best possible teams. She has been recruiting in Milwaukee for over 15 years and has developed a unique insight into the hiring needs of the local market. She creates strong business relationships, many of which turn into long-term friendships, attesting to the loyalty she has with her clients and candidates. She listens. She asks questions. And she understands that a great talent match never needs to be sold. Nicole intuitively knows when she’s found the right match, and her long track record of successful placements proves her skill.
In her free time you can find Nicole on the soccer field watching her twin boys play in rain, sleet or snow (true soccer mom!!), staying on top of fitness trends, checking out a new restaurant with her girlfriends, traveling with her husband Tom or snuggling with her baby girl Mariah (Australian miniature Labradoodle.)