Senior Project Manager (Linear Infrastructure - Water)

About the role

In response to continued growth within our Water/Wastewater business, GHD’s Water group in Charlotte, NC is looking for a Senior Project Manager to help shape the future of our Water Business across the Carolinas and the Southeast Region.

Responsibilities

• Uncover emerging issues or needs, identifying potential causes, barriers, and key stakeholders, as well as related issues.
• Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organization's change management program.
• Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units.
• Design engineering solutions and the associated validation process to enable the realization of a design brief (for example, in terms of functionality, performance, aesthetics, and cost) that conforms to organizational and/or regulatory standards.
• Analyze information, draft engineering standards and specifications, and evaluate the effectiveness of those standards within own engineering discipline to ensure work of the required quality is delivered and to inform engineering work in the organization and/or of its suppliers, contractors, and consultants.
• Develop policies and processes, create best practices, set up case studies, and deliver internal knowledge-sharing sessions to capture and share knowledge among colleagues on project/program outcomes and innovative practices in a particular area of expertise and to support the practice.
• Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the website/portal/application software and supporting infrastructure to better meet project needs.
• Lead and oversee the provision of professional supervision to ensure that there is effective professional supervision that supports practitioners' professional development and embeds reflective practice.
• Conduct complex feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes, products, or business unit structure.
• Develop and amend, as necessary, with guidance from senior colleagues, proposed complex products and services.
• Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.
• Manage client and customer relationships with guidance from senior colleagues or oversee relationship management with a group of more transactional clients and customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license in North Carolina; licensure in other states is a plus.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in planning, design and construction of water and wastewater infrastructure and/or treatment facilities.
• At least 5 years of experience serving clients in North Carolina and surrounding states.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with proven ability to develop, mentor and lead professional technical staff.
• Strong business development, proposal preparation, and marketing skills.
• Flexible and able to meet challenging deadlines.

Qualifications

• Multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce.
• GHD is an equal opportunity employer.

Skills

• Technical expertise in water and wastewater infrastructure and/or treatment facilities.
• Leadership and mentoring abilities.
• Business development and proposal preparation skills.
• Collaborative and innovative problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Project management and budgeting skills.
• Feasibility study and cost-benefit analysis skills.
• Product and solution development skills.
• Client and customer management skills.

Benefits

Our Hybrid Work Model: Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.

Pay

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

The position is full-time and based in Charlotte, NC.

Additional Information

We are an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, national origin, sex (including same sex), sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, age, disability or handicap, citizenship status, service member status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.