
Senior Project Manager Water
Denver, CO · HybridJob$140–171K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Mott MacDonald is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead water and wastewater infrastructure work from its Denver office. The role includes managing complex projects and multidisciplinary teams, developing proposals, supporting business development, and growing client relationships. The position offers collaboration across water, dams, geotechnical, energy, tunnels, and transportation practices, with a hybrid schedule requiring at least three office days per week.
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At Mott MacDonald, we trust our brilliant people to do brilliant things in engineering, management, and development services, supporting multisector project work in over 150 countries. As one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world, we pride ourselves on our ability to deliver exceptional outcomes through our network of 20,000+ talented consultants. With sustainability and innovation at the heart of all our sectors in North America, including, Buildings, Energy, Transportation, and Water. We believe in empowering our people to excel, learn, and grow, offering diverse opportunities to contribute to career-defining work. Join us and be part of a collaborative environment where your ambitions are united with ours, and you can truly shape your story. If you share that vision, even if you don't meet every requirement listed, we'd still love to hear from you. We value potential and diverse perspectives as much as experience. Let's explore how we can support your growth and help you take the next step in your career, while contributing to an exciting new chapter for Mott MacDonald in North America. Mott MacDonald is a seeking dynamic, highly motivated, and experienced Senior Project Manager and with at least 10 years of experience in water and wastewater infrastructure projects to join our Denver, Colorado office. In this role, you will build and lead a team of seller - doers, participate in local business development strategies, lead the technical development of proposals, and serve as the Senior Project Manager or Technical Design Lead on water and wastewater infrastructure projects in Colorado. The position offers excellent potential for professional growth and the opportunity to collaborate not only with water market personnel, but with our many practices including dams, geotechnical, energy, tunnels, and transportation. The qualified candidate must have strong entrepreneurial skills coupled with complex design and program management experience and direct business development experience during their career, with the ability to generate project leads, build client relationships, win and deliver work. Responsibilities are as follows: - Serve as project manager on large and complex projects with multi-discipline project teams - Serve as Line Manager to recruit, develop, supervise, and retain junior staff - Serve as project principal, supervising less experienced project managers on smaller less complex projects - Supervise and direct preparation of planning studies, evaluations, and feasibility studies for water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure projects - Supervise and direct preparation of plans and specifications for new facilities and rehabilitation of existing facilities - Supervise and direct construction engineering support services. - Lead the technical development of proposals - Serve as account leader responsible for creating and growing relationships with one or more clients We invite applications from candidates with the following experience: - Strong business acumen - Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Environmental or similar) - Licensed as a Professional Engineer (Colorado preferred) - 10+ years total experience in planning, design, and construction management of water, and wastewater infrastructure projects for major utility client - Strong technical skills and technical leadership experience, preferably including water or wastewater treatment plants - 5+ years experience in managing multi-discipline project teams - 5+ years experience in managing proposals for engineering projects - Experience in an entrepreneurial environment managing and growing client relationships. Benefits & Reward At Mott MacDonald, our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, providing them with a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses. We provide a comprehensive benefi package that includes 401k, medical, dental and vision insurance, short-term/long-term disability, paid holidays, PTO, parental leave, and company paid life insurance. Individual pay is determined based on several factors such as work location, education, experience, and unique skills. The expected salary for this position is $140,000 - $171,000 Collaboration at Our CoreAt Mott MacDonald, we believe great ideas happen when we're together. Our hybrid approach centers on an in-office culture, with most of your time spent collaborating face-to-face and a minimum of three days per week in the office. We balance flexibility with connection, so you and your manager can choose how to meet client, team, and personal commitments. Equal opportunity is the law. We seek to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute. - Englishversion - Spanishversion - Chineseversion All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status or disability status. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or disability status. Apply at: https://ipc.us/t/BC2D7114A2884209.
How this job compares
Set against the 15,222 open Project Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$140–171K/yr
- Colorado median$117–167K/yr445 salary ranges
- US median$104–175K/yr9,729 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $156K, is 9% above the Colorado median midpoint ($143K) — in the middle half of Project Management salary ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 537 open Project Management jobs in Colorado and 15,222 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Project Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 12,191 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 6,365 of the 15,222 open Project Management jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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