Water Resources Market Leader

About the role

Geosyntec Consultants is seeking a Principal level Water Resources Market Leader to join their growing national Water Resources Practice. The position is based out of Salt Lake City, UT; Phoenix, AZ; Austin, TX; Houston, TX; Dallas, TX, or any of their other U.S. based offices. Remote work from home-office is available.

Responsibilities

• Strategic business planning to segment and target specific industrial, commercial and municipal clients for projects such as water supply, groundwater and surface water modeling, water availability, use and re-use, as well as regulatory considerations for water rights permitting; focused on the West Region Water Resources market.
• Engagement with project and operations staff to align Geosyntec’s full service delivery capabilities with market demands.
• Serve in the capacity of a Client Account Manager on selected accounts deemed critical to Geosyntec’s Water Resources market.
• Active participation in professional societies, conferences, and meetings that will increase the visibility of the firm to potential clients and recruits.
• Make contributions to the profession that will result in individual recognition as an industry leader.
• Project directorship, including ensuring client expectations are understood and met, budgets are adhered to, quality objectives are met, and follow-on work is attained – Strategically related to local scale hydrogeologic analyses for water supply management, regulatory compliance and new source development; modeling studies of aquifer systems; installation and testing of groundwater supply wells (and monitoring wells), aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) and surface recharge basin projects, and permitting and regulatory compliance projects, including water rights.
• Recruiting, managing, and mentoring junior staff and mid-career engineers and scientists.
• Reviewing and leading the preparation of major proposals.
• Providing senior leadership subject matter expertise in meetings with clients, regulatory personnel, and other parties.
• Technical Project delivery and project-manager responsibility for scoping, performing, managing, and delivering multiple concurrent project assignments.
• Preparing technical reports, letters, memoranda, plans, specifications, and proposals.
• Drive personal, company, and rental vehicles to client or company project or office sites, and other business locations, as needed.

Requirements

• At least 10 years (15+ preferred) of direct water resources, hydrogeology, or engineering consulting experience working on water resource, contaminated sites, and mining projects; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience with multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Demonstrated success in project management, sales, and business development.
• Excellent leadership and detail-orientation skills.
• Experience with design and implementation of field hydrogeology programs in glacial, basalt, and clastic aquifer systems.
• Experience with numerical modeling of groundwater flow and well test analysis (preferred).
• Ability and willingness to perform fieldwork and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Water Resources, Hydrogeology, Civil, Environmental or related engineering discipline with emphasis on water resources.
• Advanced degree in the same/similar (preferred).
• Professional registration (i.e., PE, CHG) (required).