Senior Project Manager, Water and Wastewater

Neegan Burnside Ltd. is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Water/Wastewater Engineer to join our Winnipeg office. This leadership-focused position is ideal for a professional engineer with a passion for mentoring others and building strong client relationships. The successful candidate will lead and support a variety of municipal water and wastewater projects, while playing a key role in expanding our engineering services and client base across Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario.

What You'll Do:

• Lead multidisciplinary project teams as Lead Engineer or Project Manager.
• Oversee the planning, design, and implementation of water/wastewater infrastructure projects.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior staff and engineers.
• Prepare and review technical reports, proposals, schedules, and design documentation.
• Conduct feasibility studies, environmental assessments, condition assessments, and asset management planning.
• Actively manage client relationships, stakeholder engagement, and project delivery.
• Represent the firm at industry events, conferences, and client meetings.
• Support business development initiatives and contribute to strategic growth efforts.

What You Bring:

• Licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Manitoba, or eligible for registration.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in consulting and municipal water/wastewater design.
• Strong knowledge of municipal infrastructure systems and regulatory requirements.
• Proven project management skills with attention to timelines and budgets.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and technical writing abilities.
• Demonstrated success in client engagement and team development.

Preferred Skills and Assets:

• Experience with vertical (e.g., pumping stations, treatment facilities) and horizontal (e.g., pipe networks) infrastructure.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD, BIM, REVIT, or MicroStation.
• Experience with civil site planning and design.
• Familiarity working with Indigenous clients and communities.

Why Choose Neegan Burnside Ltd.

As a Neegan Burnside Ltd. employee, you will become part of the Burnside team, joining colleagues across our organizations who collaborate to deliver value and service to clients while extending care to each other. We know that our employees are our greatest asset, and thus we strive to provide a positive work/life balance.

As leaders in quality infrastructure, engineering, environmental assessment and planning, design, project management and consulting services, Neegan Burnside combines innovative and new technologies with proven strategy and implementation. 

Becoming part of the Burnside team opens the door to a wide range of career development, mentorship and collaboration opportunities across our 11 office locations, and the business and services we have to offer.  

We offer a wide variety of opportunities for our staff, geared to your comfort level in independence and interests.  As an agile firm willing to consider a multitude of opportunities as presented by our long-term client base, and in a number of emerging disciplines, we are willing to work with you to set a meaningful career path for you.

We Offer:

• A collaborative culture where friendship, honesty and respect are part of our core values and practices
• Flexible working hours and office locations, including hybrid working opportunities
• A competitive compensation and benefits package
• RRSP company matching plan
• Career growth and professional development opportunities
• Potential for performance-driven bonusin
• Company share ownership program opportunities
• Active social committees
• A welcoming, positive, and inclusive work environment

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to valuing diversity in the workplace and we welcome resumes from all qualified candidates. Neegan Burnside will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the entire recruitment, assessment, and selection process, as required.  If you are a person with a disability and require an accommodation during these processes, please contact our Human Resources department.

Company Profile

Neegan Burnside Ltd. is a dynamic and growing civil engineering and environmental services firm that is looking to expand our skill sets and project opportunities with our current clients, and beyond.  Founded in 1999, we are a majority-Indigenous owned firm of 24 staff.  We are also 100% Employee-owned. We are committed to working with Indigenous (First Nation, Metis and Inuit) communities, agencies and industries to meet their infrastructure, development and economic goals while remaining sensitive to culture, values and beliefs.

 Our success is evident in the over 1,500 completed projects for more than 300 Indigenous communities and agencies throughout North America, many of them repeat clients with whom we work to develop long term and meaningful relationships. We endeavor to provide opportunities with our organization for Indigenous staff, as well as for community members in the projects we deliver.

 Neegan Burnside Ltd. core services include engineering, feasibility and design, construction oversight and contract administration, technical peer reviews, and project management of the following expertise:

• Water and Wastewater Management and Engineering
• Land Development
• Facilities Engineering
• Transportation Engineering
• Renewable Energy Services
• Solid Waste Management
• Environmental Assessment, Review and Planning
• Geomatics, GIS and Asset Management
• Consultation, Accommodation and Community Engagement
• Development
• Capacity Development (Capital Planning, Land Use Planning)

 We are uniquely integrated with R.J. Burnside & Associates Ltd., a multi-disciplinary engineering and scientific consulting firm with a wide range of core services including Municipal infrastructure, private land development and environmental assessment services.

Founded in 1970, R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited is a growing values-driven employee-owned multidiscipline engineering and environmental consulting firm with 450+ staff. With our unique ability to coordinate and access resources across both companies, we can offer to our clients expertise in many technical disciplines including air and noise, asset management, building design (residential, commercial and institutional), environmental planning and ecology, GIS, hydrogeology, land development, landscape architecture, municipal drainage and peer review, solid waste, stormwater management, structures, transportation planning and design, transit, water and wastewater and well drilling & diagnostics.

Our partnership ensures that Neegan Burnside Ltd. staff experience a consistent commitment towards investing in technology advancements and training, as well as encouraging and promoting professional development, which has enabled our firm to meet our ongoing and stated goal of continual improvement.

We look forward to considering you as a part of our team

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