Senior Project Manager - Water/Wastewater Engineering

Ardurra is looking to hire an experienced Senior Water/Wastewater Project Manager to join our team in Houston, TX!

Due to a significant expansion of work across Texas, our Houston office is actively scaling to support a large and diverse portfolio of complex water and wastewater projects, creating exceptional opportunities for senior-level professionals who want to make an immediate impact.

Our water and wastewater teams deliver high-profile, technically challenging infrastructure projects for municipal and regional water authorities. Our work is heavily focused on water and wastewater treatment facilities, advanced treatment technologies, and specialty process-driven projects, supported by integrated planning, design, permitting, and construction-phase services.

As a recognized leader in the Texas water industry, Ardurra offers the chance to step into a high-visibility leadership role within a fast-growing, well-resourced organization committed to long-term investment in people, clients, and innovation.

Primary Function: 

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the full lifecycle delivery of complex water and wastewater projects, from proposal and initiation through execution, control, and closeout. This role carries full accountability for project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and client satisfaction—often across large, multidisciplinary teams and aggressive delivery schedules.

The Senior Project Manager’s objective is to deliver outstanding client outcomes, maintain trusted client relationships, and consistently achieve strong financial performance while helping to scale Ardurra’s Texas water practice.

Primary Duties: 

• Planning and Execution
  • Participates in project costing and bid preparation to the extent required
  • Review assigned project(s) after award to define project scope, determine work procedures/sequences, and develop schedules, budgets, manning tables, vendor lists, and progress billing points
  • Submits documents to Federal, state, and local authorities for code compliance review and obtains the various permits required
  • Manages and minimizes project risks for the interest of Ardurra
  • Uses Earned Value Management (EVM) to execute, manage and control projects
  • Ensures Quality Control reviews are completed at proper milestones
  • Tracks Accounts Receivable and ensuring that invoices are paid in a timely manner
• Team Leadership
  • Forms a project work team and sees that responsibilities are assigned, and execution of tasks are begun and completed according to schedule
  • Builds high-performing team and drives for results
• Communication
  • Establishes contractor-client liaison network to keep all interested parties informed of project planning, start date, and work progress
  • Holds regularly scheduled project progress review meetings to ensure that:
    • A project contract’s terms, conditions, and specifications are being met
    • Project personnel adhere to federal and state regulatory requirements and company policies
    • Delays and cost overruns, at best, are entirely avoided, or, at worst, kept to a minimum
    • Manpower, equipment, materials, and quality problems are recognized for timely intervention and resolution
    • On-site supervision maintains staff morale and interacts appropriately with client counterparts
    • Information for progress billing purposes is submitted correctly and on time
  • Meets with client management as necessary during a project’s terms to resolve issues and at a project’s completion to obtain final client approvals
  • Maintains a continuing business relationship with major clients as part of ongoing business development efforts

Education and Experience Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent

• 10–15 years of experience in water and wastewater project delivery

• Proven success managing large, complex engineering projects with multidisciplinary teams

• Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred; state licensing requirements may apply

• Demonstrated ability to manage clients, mentor staff, and deliver strong financial performance

• Experience supporting proposals and growth initiatives is strongly preferred

Why Ardurra?

While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun. We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home.

Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

Ardurra does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agency Agreement, Ardurra will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. If a resume or candidate is submitted to any hiring manager without a previously signed agreement, Ardurra reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. These candidates will be considered property of Ardurra. We’re not currently looking to add any more agencies to our list of approved vendors, so please do not contact any of our managers or recruitment team with sales calls or details of your candidates.

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