Water Resources Market Leader

About the Role

Geosyntec Consultants is seeking a Senior Principal level Water Resources Market Leader to join our growing national Water Resources Practice, based out of our Boise, ID office. The potential to work remotely from your home-office is available at the discretion of the Company. This position is a unique opportunity to join a leadership team actively engaged in growing the water business at Geosyntec.

As a senior member of our Water Resources practice, you will lead complex water resources projects around water supply management, water rights permitting, and groundwater/surface water management. This role combines technical project execution, client relationship management, and water resource subject matter expertise with task and team leadership, while actively engaging existing and new client opportunities from a business development growth standpoint.

Our Water Resources group works on complex projects ranging from water supply development, water supply management, water rights, mining hydrogeology, contaminant hydrogeology, regulatory permitting, and source water protection across the U.S. In this role, you will build and lead a team of experienced professionals, contribute to complex technical project work, and actively engage in growth and business development strategy.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a strategy for achieving significant market share for Geosyntec in the Water Resources market area, focusing on the West Region.
• 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, and regulatory considerations for water rights permitting.
• Engage with project and operations staff to align Geosyntec’s full service delivery capabilities with market demands.
• Serve as a Client Account Manager on selected accounts critical to Geosyntec’s Water Resources market.
• Actively participate in professional societies, conferences, and meetings to increase the firm’s visibility to potential clients and recruits, and make contributions to the profession to establish individual recognition as an industry leader.
• Provide project directorship, ensuring client expectations are met, budgets are adhered to, quality objectives are achieved, and follow-on work is attained. This includes:
  • 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.
  • Permitting and regulatory compliance projects, including water rights.
• Recruit, manage, and mentor junior staff and mid-career engineers and scientists.
• Review and lead the preparation of major proposals.
• Provide senior leadership and subject matter expertise in meetings with clients, regulatory personnel, and other parties.
• Deliver technical projects and manage multiple concurrent project assignments, including scoping, performing, managing, and delivering projects.
• Prepare technical reports, letters, memoranda, plans, specifications, and proposals.
• Drive personal, company, or rental vehicles to client or company project or office sites and other business locations as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Water Resources, Hydrogeology, Civil, Environmental, or related engineering discipline with an emphasis on water resources (required).
• Advanced degree in the same or similar field (preferred).
• Professional registration (e.g., PE, CHG) (required).
• At least 15 years of direct water resources, hydrogeology, or engineering consulting experience working on water resource, contaminated sites, and mining projects, or an equivalent combination of education and experience (required).
• Experience with multi-disciplinary project teams (required).
• Demonstrated success in project management, sales, and business development (required).
• Excellent leadership and detail-orientation skills (required).
• Experience with design and implementation of field hydrogeology programs in glacial, basalt, and clastic aquifer systems (required).
• Experience with numerical modeling of groundwater flow and well test analysis (preferred).
• Ability and willingness to perform fieldwork and travel as needed (required).
• Valid U.S. driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel (required).
• Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing may be required.

Benefits

Geosyntec invests in its people by offering competitive pay and benefits, as well as well-being programs to support you and your family.