Reuse Area Practice Leader - Southeast

Brown and Caldwell has an exciting opportunity for a Reuse Area Practice Leader (APL) to help lead major projects and delivery exceptional services to our drinking water and reuse clients. The APL is responsible for driving the growth of their practice areas to advance the business unit's strategic goals. In this role, you will also be responsible for understanding the unique trends in your area and using that knowledge to create technical differentiation from that of our competitors while serving as an important conduit between the National Practice Leaders, Specialty Leaders, and the practice staff in the Business Unit.

The Area Practice Leader role is designed to be coordinated with your other roles as Project Manager, Client Service Manager, or operations leader in the market. This position will report to the Regional Director of Technical Services. This position can be filled remotely, based near any of our Southeast offices, and with the ability to travel as needed to meet client and project commitments.

Detailed Description:

In this position, you will be help win and deliver drinking water and reuse projects in our Southeast Area and will be part of the Drinking Water and Reuse Practice’s leadership team. This team is responsible for helping clients plan, design, construct, operate and optimize water treatment facilities and distribution systems. The Reuse team focuses on the additional treatment of municipal wastewater for non-potable or potable reuse applications and requires knowledge of reuse process engineering, reuse water quality regulations, policy, and contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). It includes both conventional and advanced treatment unit processes tied together to meet water quality objectives and regulatory compliance for the intended uses. There is collaboration with other practice areas and BC’s Private Sector Water Clients which include industrial wastewater as a source of water or for industrial reuse applications.

Practice Leadership

• Be a visible leader within the industry to represent BC’s brand related to your practice and within your market.
• Inform development of technical practice vision and strategy (led by National Practice Leader) including market-specific trends, clients, needs, and opportunities for the area.
• Inform development of Business Unit technical focus working with the Area Manager, Local Leaders, Client Service Managers/Teams and practice members to identify emerging trends and opportunities in the Practice and geographic area.
• Develop connectivity and collaboration between affiliated staff in the area / region
• Collaborate with National Practice and Innovation Leaders to support connection of technical differentiators, innovative solutions and R&D for clients and advance goals set for your area or region by business and practice leadership.
• Partner with Specialty Leaders to ensure Subject Matter Specialists are developed and assigned to ensure quality delivery and appropriate governance.
• Inform technical workforce deployment strategically to support technical differentiation on projects.
• Engage as a visible leader in the Practice Portal connecting technical staff with resources, solutions, standards, and best practices.

Project Delivery Quality and Efficiency

• Ensure quality delivery of relevant technical project elements on strategic regional projects
• Support national sharing of resources to match top talent with strategic projects. Work with BU leaders, Practice Leaders, and other regional/area practice leaders to provide qualified resources in the practice (from across the country if necessary) in support of strategic projects and pursuits within and outside of your area.
• Inform Practice Leaders of project resource needs
• Coordinate with Practice and Specialty Leaders to ensure application of standards during project delivery. Support NSLs in directing appropriate resources to developing standards.

 Client Development and Sales

• Collaborate with Practice and BU Leaders to develop technical strategy and participate in annual business planning for the area. Drive implementation of the technical strategy including funnel development, capture of key pursuits, project staffing, and talent development.
• Coordinate with area/regional business development partners to drive expansion of the funnel with projects and pursuits associated with technical practice area.
• Participate in go/no-go decisions on local projects associated with the technical practice area.
• Act as sales leader for strategic pursuits or CSM for new strategic clients in the area as needed.
• Understand our competition in terms of strategic direction of their approach to the regional practice ar