Water and Wastewater Area Manager

Woodard & Curran is a national engineering, science, and operations firm with a simple vision for clean water, a safe environment, healthy communities, and happy people. As an employee-owned company, we strive to cultivate diverse teams and encourage collaboration in an equitable and inclusive culture. We seek talented individuals from all backgrounds to help us address a broad range of water and environmental issues. We prioritize our people, offering opportunities for professional growth, ownership, and flexibility. That’s how we make a difference to our clients, people, and the planet.
For more than 30 years, Woodard & Curran has offered contract operations and management services for drinking water, municipal and industrial wastewater, groundwater remediation, and solid waste facilities nationwide. Currently we contract operate more than 85 facilities nationwide. Woodard & Curran draws on the experience of hundreds of certified operators across the country, backed by the knowledge and skills of hundreds more engineers, scientists, and regulatory experts, to quickly tackle the most challenging operational issues and keep treatment plants running efficiently and in full compliance.  Who We Are Looking For: We are growing!  Due to this growth, we have an opening for an Area Manager, focused on Water and Wastewater treatment projects in our Operations & Management (O&M) Strategic Business Unit (SBU). This unit is responsible for the contract operations and management of water and wastewater treatment facilities, reclaimed water distribution facilities, and full public works for municipal clients across the United States.  In this role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operations and oversight of water, wastewater, and reclaimed water projects in Florida, Tampa Bay Metro area and east to Orlando County.  In this role, you will work with Plant Managers, Operations Specialists, Technology and SCADA support to address needs and challenges and work with our consulting and corporate services teams to help provide support to your projects.
 Open to virtual or flexible work arrangements.

What You Will Be Doing at Woodard & Curran: In this role, you will plan, direct, and coordinate activities of multiple projects and client representatives to ensure that our contracted scope of work and expectations are accomplished within prescribed timeframes and funding parameters and with minimal environmental impacts. You will also be responsible for managing the growth and development of assigned managers and staff and are ultimately responsible for ensuring that Clients and regulatory agencies are satisfied with all work product and efforts at facilities under your supervision.
You will be responsible for ensuring the overall health and safety of all assigned employees by coordinating with the Plant Managers and Woodard & Curran’s Health & Safety Manager, creating a safe workplace environment as well as an emergency procedures program. You will need to demonstrate an ability to proactively control project costs and provide insight to solutions for troubled financial situations. You will also ensure that the company’s image as a leader in the industry is protected and presented at all levels at the facility, including on-site personnel, facility grounds, and company-owned or leased vehicles and other assets within our contracted responsibility. Comfort with public relations/public speaking is important in this role. You will be responsible for direct supervision of Plant Manager(s) and in this role, and you will originate actions and influence events as they pertain to those managers or others under your supervision. You will be called on to set appropriate examples regarding work ethic, motivation, and health and safety, technical, and managerial skills and conduct regular reviews for those managers that report to you; these reviews will include providing forward feedback, establishing goals and performance standards, and will provide opportunities to coach and develop the subordinate Manager.

Essential duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Involvement in project proposals or plans to determine time frames, funding sources and limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, resource allocations and environmental impacts.
• Assist Business Development in the pursuit of new projects through networking, leads and involvement in a variety of municipal and industry related associations as well as contract renewals and scope expansion with existing clients.
• Participation in the recruitment of staff for facility positions while effectively mentoring and managing their professional growth, development opportunities, and compensation.
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