Water/Wastewater Client Services Manager - Southeast Florida

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Job Description

The Water Business Line of AECOM is actively seeking a creative, highly talented Water/Wastewater Client Services Manager, with a focus in water/wastewater infrastructure in our Southeast Florida operations. This role within AECOM offers an exciting opportunity to focus on a mix of client business growth, project delivery leadership and mentoring of developing engineering staff by leveraging top notch regional and national water/wastewater engineering expertise and capabilities to expand AECOM’s Fort Lauderdale area business. The appropriately qualified applicant will be a seller/doer and will have the opportunity to manage and work with an established team of professional engineers on a variety of water, wastewater, and storm water design projects.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Work with senior members of our Water Business Line team to seek new municipal business opportunities.

• Lead client-related activities.

• Participate in local community and industry related events.

• Provide leadership and mentoring to local staff.

• Communicate project tasks between offices – high level of coordination and communication skills required.

• Makes presentations to clients and internally to staff.

• Coordination with clients, sub-consultants, regulatory agencies, and members of the public will be necessary to accomplish assigned objectives.

• Responsible for both the technical practice and operational management of one large or multiple small to medium sized offices/operating units with moderate complexity. 

• Determines and executes the strategic direction of the office(s) to ensure financial profitability. 

• Works in conjunction with the district and/or regional management to ensure financial success of the offices within the district or operating unit.

• Supports, oversees and coordinates engineering production activities for an operating unit. 

• Makes decisions and recommendations that are recognized as authoritative. 

• Initiates and maintains contact with senior-level management within the company and is skilled in dispute resolution and negotiation of critical issues. At this level, the individual will have demonstrated understanding of project delivery requirements, creativity, foresight, working with a multi-disciplinary team to meet project goals and deliver high quality technical excellence. 

• Demonstrates mature judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual operations problems, determining operational objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects, and developing standards and guides for diverse engineering activities. 

• Supervision received is essentially administrative with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering - preferably Civil or Environmental.

• 10 years of related experience, with progressive experience as PE/PM in municipal water/wastewater infrastructure engineering design and construction.

• Minimum of 2 years of leadership experience managing a diverse team and multiple deadlines.

• Demonstrated business development skills and expertise.

• Proven ability to negotiate, influence and manage risk.

• Demonstrated client management and project management experience including delivering projects successfully, on time and on budget.

• Experience with leading/conducting business development activities, pursuing new clients/projects, and serving as project manager on project deliveries.

• Licensed Professional Engineer.

• Must have a valid U.S. d