What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineer/Project Manager - Water + Environment Market position at Gresham Smith?
Gresham Smith’s water experts navigate changing regulations, aging infrastructure, and emerging technologies to address clients’ present-day challenges while providing resiliency and flexibility for the future. From maintaining clean drinking water and treating wastewater to managing stormwater, we invite you to join us in designing solutions that improve essential infrastructure to keep communities healthy and thriving.
Our Water Environment Market has an opening for an ambitious, senior-level Engineer and Project Manager with a background in working on projects related to water, wastewater, stormwater/conveyance, and treatment projects. Our team of project professionals will provide you with support and flexibility, allowing you to produce high-quality work while maintaining a work-life balance. Our projects are engaging, challenging, and significantly impact the communities we serve. Come join us!
Responsibilities:
- Provide engineering and design expertise for projects relating to water, wastewater, stormwater/conveyance. and treatment projects.
- Independently performs all the tasks necessary to complete primary design elements for engineering works.
- Works on detailed or routine engineering assignments involving calculations and Identifies discrepancies in results.
- Responsible for all aspects of project management including supporting pursuits and attending interviews for pursuits, client management, project scope development, project planning, organizing, change management, inter-discipline coordination, production coordination, team leadership, financial management, project quality control, and delivery.
- Maintain healthy client relationships and possess solid operational insight for driving projects and executing deliverables.
- Understand project goals and clearly communicate them to project teams to ensure client expectations are consistently achieved.
- Provide leadership and direction for the execution of water and wastewater-related projects including process/mechanical, treatment, chemical feed systems, and pumping systems.
- Lead project staff, prepare work schedules, and assign specific duties. Oversee the production of plans and specifications for design projects for municipal water treatment and water reclamation facilities.
- Provide market-wide senior-level technical expertise through our Technical Leadership Program for water and wastewater aspects particularly related to pump/lift stations.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, or other related field is required.
- Professional Engineering (P.E.) licensure is required.
- A minimum of 10 years of professional experience working in water, wastewater, stormwater/conveyance, and treatment projects in a consultant capacity is required. Large pump station or lift station experience is a plus.
- Experience working with AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and water/sewer modeling software.
- Proficient working experience with MS Office Suite, MS Project, Adobe Suite, Bluebeam, Deltek Vantagepoint, and Power BI software.
- Strong understanding/working knowledge of environmental regulations, local and state design codes and standards is required.
- Proven experience in developing project plans, anticipating and addressing project issues, leading meetings with clients, and directing the completion of technical reports.
- Must be exceptional in written and oral communication, with the ability to lead, develop, and deliver highly persuasive presentations that build client confidence and result in securing favorable design contracts.
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