Assistant Engineering Director (Water)

GAI Consultants is actively seeking an Assistant Engineering Director for our Florida Water Division in Orlando, Florida office.  An ideal candidate has planning, design, permitting, and construction experience as well as client relationships in the Florida municipal water/wastewater and utilities markets. We are looking for a motivated person to join our team to build our business with technical, project management, and business development abilities. This position is an excellent opportunity to assist our leadership team as the Florida Water Division expands its portfolio and range of services and develops integrated solutions for other GAI client sectors.

As an Assistant Engineering Director for Water, this candidate will support the development and management of a team of Project Managers, Engineers, and Technicians. This candidate will be responsible for leading assigned project pursuits and the marketing of clients, including public and private clients statewide as well as delivering quality projects on budget and on time.  This candidate will also be responsible for monitoring and managing the financial performance of projects under their direction and contributing to the overall performance of their department and team. 

Job Duties:

• Independently perform and guide multi-discipline teams on the delivery of planning, evaluation, design, permitting, and construction projects related to water and wastewater collection, conveyance, and distribution systems, pump stations, storage and treatment plants, facility upgrades/rehabilitation, amongst other infrastructure projects.
• Plan and manage projects from inception through construction and start-up, including client coordination, team chartering, scope, schedule and budget development and management, safety, quality assurance/quality control, project profitability, staff workload coordination, and maintain a high level of client satisfaction.

• Mentor and develop junior and mid-career staff for technical and project management knowledge, skills, and abilities.

• Identify project pursuits, market clients, and manage pursuits including proposal and presentation preparation. Coordinate and develop proposed scope, schedule, and fee for projects pursued and lead the interview team.
• Actively win new work from both new and existing clients by building and maintaining customer relationships, monitoring future work opportunities, communicating regularly, and attending client events.
• Collaborate with other GAI sectors such as power, industry, civil infrastructure, transportation, CEI, and planning to market and deliver full-service project opportunities to clients.
• Intermittent travel is estimated to be approximately 10 to 30%, and may involve visits to other offices, onsite meetings with clients, attendance of project-specific meetings, and various in-person business development activities.

General Characteristics

• Makes decisions with broad influence on activities of their organizations.
• Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing, and guiding projects and activities of major consequence.
• Provides leadership and develops and engages others to create a common vision for their projects and the organization.
• Assesses the acceptability of engineering economic analyses and the risks associated with solutions to complex engineering problems.
• Evaluates solutions to complex problems that involve multiple specialty areas of engineering.
• Assesses courses of resolution to ethical dilemmas in complicated situations.

Minimum Years of Experience

• 20+

Education

• B.S. or M.S. Engineering, master’s degree or Equivalent Experience Preferred.

Certification/Licensure

• Professional Engineer (P.E.) License, reciprocity in multiple states.

Technical Responsibilities

• Performs advisory or consulting work for the organization across broad project areas or within a specialized area with innovative/complex aspects.
• Assesses practices and requirements to achieve sustainable performance of complex engineering projects from a systems perspective.

Project and Task Management

• Oversees multiple large or multidiscipline project teams.
• Develops projects needed for accomplishing the objectives of the practice.
• Evaluates project management plans for complex engineering projects.
• Develops risk mitigation plans to address project risks.
• Evaluates effectiveness of leaders and teams.
• May manage projects, up to $250,000 in yearly value, without GAI President’s approval, but is a small c