Reuse National Practice Leader

The Reuse National Practice Leader (NPL) will set the vision and strategy for the Water Reuse Practice while ensuring alignment with the company and business unit strategies. In this role, you will also be responsible for driving market growth with Municipal and Private Sector clients, developing talent, and delivering high quality solutions to drive our technical differentiation from that of our competitors. You will supervise a team including a National Technology & Innovation Leader (NTIL) and one to four National Specialty Leaders (NSL) that reflect key areas of BC capability and growth potential. You will partner with a NTIL to align Research and Innovation strategy and new solutions with a Practice strategy to solve the most important client challenges. You will engage the teams to partner nationally, regionally, and locally to advance the Practice mission and responsibilities described below.

Who you are:

• You are a leader who can connect with and bring out the best in everyone.
• You consistently demonstrate strong leadership, coaching and communication skills.
• You engage with clients to lead and develop solutions to their complex water reuse problems in a quickly evolving regulatory and technical landscape.
• You excel in strategy development, including problem solving, consensus building, and talent development.
• You are results-orientated, proactive, and interested in working with a diverse team.
• You can guide and rally your team, focusing on actions to achieve desired outcomes.
• You have the ability to engage, Influence, and execute across the business to deliver solutions.
• You have strong ability to see trends and extract vision from what is otherwise obscure.

What you will do:

Practice Leadership

• Lead the Water Reuse Practice by aligning a vision and strategy with business unit (BU) goals and our One Water strategy. Communicate the practice vision and strategy with BUs and provide quarterly updates on practice milestones / success stories.
• Lead a cohesive practice leadership team, including NTIL and NSLs by tracking progress towards producing technical client deliverables / products that advance the practice in alignment with overall strategy and report progress/performance to the Director of Technical Practices.
• Support and leverage strategic BC innovations by forming a partnership with the NTILs to shape key markets for the practice and equip client services teams with new client solutions.

Project Delivery Quality and Efficiency

• Assign practitioners to support national project delivery and resource sharing by serving as the main contact for area/regional practice leaders to match top technical talent with strategic projects - i.e., getting the “right people” on the “right projects”  
• Drive efficient, high-quality project execution through coordinating with your team and Regional and Area Practice Leaders(R/APL) to develop and consistently apply national technical standards including process and design guidelines, best practices, tools, model work scopes, and governance.

Client Development and Sales

• Support strategic key pursuits and development of clients by partnering with R/APLs to assign top practice talent to key client service teams.
• Inform technical strategy on key pursuits with local growth teams and business operational leaders by aligning differentiating technical solutions and efficiencies from the national practice with client critical success factors.  
• Understand our competition in terms of strategic direction of their technical focus, staff, strengths and weaknesses. Equip business units with winning technical strategies.

Talent Development

• Create a mentoring and staff development culture to build subject matter experts and oversee Subject Matter Specialist (SMS) affiliation led by Specialty Leaders.
• Support recruiting (identifying needs and best-fit candidates, informing decisions); communicate perceived gaps and needs with operational leads, and support hiring plans as part of business planning efforts.
• Attract top talent in the industry to support practice growth
• Support internal / external recognition of technical experts and their accomplishments.  

 BC Brand and Industry Leadership

• Lead representation of the BC brand across the industry, including strategic messaging, thought-leadership through peer-reviewed and other publications, and team member visibility.
• Champion strategic national conferences, presentation strategies, and selection of technical attendees.
• Support local conferences, workshops, and