National Specialty Leader – Drinking Water Filtration

Brown and Caldwell (BC) has an exciting opportunity to join our Drinking Water Practice as a National Specialty Leader in Filtration.  The successful candidate will assist in growing BC’s Drinking Water Practice and lead teams to deliver exceptional service to our municipal and private-sector clients. In this role, you will support business development, lead execution of high-quality solutions, develop talent, and create and enforce standards to drive our technical differentiation from that of our competitors in the technical areas of rapid media filtration, granular activated carbon adsorption, ion exchange processes, and subordinate facilities.

Remote work from within the U.S. is allowed although the preference would be for the selected candidate to be located within commuting distance to one of our offices for occasional in-person collaboration.

Who you are:

• You have demonstrated technical expertise in filtration processes.
• You consistently demonstrate strong leadership, coaching, and communication skills.
• You excel in strategy development, including business analysis, problem solving, consensus building, and talent development.
• You are a results-oriented leader with the ability to bring cross-functional partners together and quickly shift course as necessary to achieve goals.
• You are confident, yet humble and can effectively consult and partner with multiple teams and varying needs.

What you will do:

Project Delivery Quality and Efficiency

• Ensure relevant Subject Matter Specialists (SMS) engage effectively with project teams to apply consistent technical approaches, risk management, and quality delivery.
• On strategic and complex projects, engage directly with delivery team throughout project life cycle, including early concept development, solution selection, project design, execution, and risk mitigation.
• Oversee prioritization and development of national technical standards (guidelines, best practices, tools, content), governance, and consistent usage by practice members for efficient, high-quality execution of specialty elements. 
• Support national sharing of resources to match top technical talent with strategic projects, working closely with national and regional practice leaders - getting the “right people” on the “right projects” through collaboration with Regional Practice Leaders.

Client Development and Sales

• In close association with Client Service Teams (CSTs), assume Client-facing Technical Leadership roles with strategic clients, including trusted advisor for clients and CSTs. 
• Directly engage with clients to build relationships, assess needs, and develop technical solutions.   
• Bring technical insights from engagement with client peers/network.
• Understand our competition in terms of strategic direction of their approach to the specialty area, and their technical focus, staff, strengths, and weaknesses. Equip business units with winning technical strategies.

Knowledge & Technical Standards

• Create efficient, high-quality practice execution through development and consistent application of national technical standards includingprocess and design guidelines, best practices, tools, model work scopes, and governance.  
• Oversee implementation of Quality Fundamentals and Subject Matter Specialists (SMS) governance, in partnership with Specialty Leaders responsible for SMS badging and performance. 

Talent Development

• Lead implementation and adjudication of SMS governance, systems (i.e., "badging “) and plans for talent development to ensure a high performing “bench” of technical practitioners.
• Set a foundation for SMS engagement in projects to develop staff by direct mentoring and training on the project.
• Support recruiting (identifying needs and candidates, informing decisions), communicate perceived gaps and needs with BU operational leads, and support hiring plans into business planning efforts.
• Support Practice Leadership in development of technical training and mentoring program within the specialty.

BC Brand and Industry Leadership

• Expand BC recognition in the industry for drinking water filtration processes. Lead representation of the BC brand as industry thought-leader, including strategic messaging, peer-reviewed and other publications, and team member visibility.
• Work with practice leadership team and operations leaders to develop national and regional conference plans. Champion strategic national conferences, presentation strategies, and selection of technical attendees.
• Support local conferences, workshops, and other means of visibility in strategic geographies, in coordination with Regional Prac