Senior Manager - Environmental Programs

Overview

Serves as the practice lead or has a deep understanding of most or all of the Nakupuna Companies environmental service areas including Investigation and Remediation, UXO/MMRP, Environmental Compliance, and Environmental Construction.

Responsibilities

The following duties are representative of the essential functions for this job but are not comprehensive.  Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned to this job at any time.

• Work with managers of projects under your purview to develop high performing teams that deliver exceptional products, and reward results with extraordinary impact.
• Promote a culture that advances and retains the highest performers. Ensure projects are appropriately staffed and applicable resources are obtained to execute contract tasks efficiently
• Ensure the highest quality of service delivery for all contracts. Continuously evaluate service delivery by communicating with clients, Project Managers, and employees to solve issues and find areas for process improvement
• Support development and execution of corporate goals and objectives. Promote adherence to corporate values. Ensure compliance with corporate policies and business processes. Advocate our corporate culture
• Deliver practical and innovative solutions that support customers’ missions. Ensure achievement of project schedules, budgets, and scope requirements for assigned projects. Ensure work conforms with the Nakupuna Companies quality standards and client expectations. Ensure invoices are prepared, accurate, timely, and consistent with established milestone deliverables or other payment timelines
• Ensure effective management of end-to-end financial performance of all contracts ensuring achievement of revenue/profit objectives. Work closely with BFA, Senior and Project Managers to manage costs and make prudent financial decisions
• Ensure delivery of meaningful, accurate, and professional project reporting and metrics for both our clients and company leadership. Keep executives abreast of major service delivery events (challenges and successes); ensure executive direction flows to all service delivery efforts via Project Managers
• Achieve business growth targets. Support management of business development pipeline, forecasts, and profitability for projects under your purview. Engage in Market Research Team efforts ensuring opportunities are surfaced and discussed. Engage in development of RFI and proposal responses, to include technical and pricing inputs.
• Develop marketing products and meet with clients and partners and cultivate strategic partnerships to enable attainment of growth objectives.
• Work with Shared Services Directors to address support issues of impact to projects under your purview and improve processes to ensure successful service delivery.
• Ensure sustained alignment with and support of the corporate mission, vision, values. Provide support, management, input, and leadership in executing corporate strategic goals as appropriate. Support corporate initiatives, as appropriate
• Ensure all projects meet contractual obligations and the workforce always acts in an ethical and legal manner
• Support cross-company opportunities to enable innovative service delivery. Ensure best practices are leveraged across the Nakupuna Companies
• Manage and oversee personnel management processes (e.g., goal setting, performance assessment, mentoring & coaching, recruitment, retention strategies, terminations, etc.) across assigned projects. Provide guidance on personnel issues and be final approval for all personnel actions
• Provide training opportunities that develop the skills and competencies of our team members and enhances career growth while strategically growing the capabilities of assigned project teams
• Promote social responsibility including supporting our community and native Hawaiian community
• Develop new and improve existing customer relationships. Maintain and build our customers trust in the Nakupuna Companies’ ability to successfully manage and deliver projects
• Manage risks, resolve issues, and ensure required change is executed effectively.
• Participate in management meetings (Senior Management Meetings, Recruiting Meetings, Environmental Manager Meetings, etc.)

Qualifications

Skills/Qualifications: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate risk items and potential resolutions, Highly self-motivated and ability to work independently in a global team environment, Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions, Strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team, Independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi-directional work environments.

Education/Experience:

• Professional Engineer (P.E.) preferred
• Ability to serve as the Responsible Managing Employee (RME) for state contracting licenses preferred.
• 8-10 years of experience delivering on environmental services contracts for government and DoD agencies.
• 8-10 years of experience managing complex environmental services programs and projects for government and DoD agencies
• 8-10 years of experience managing a diverse group of staff, including Project Managers, Environmental Scientists, Geologists, and other environmental specialties. 
• Bachelor’s degree in business or environmental related field required.  Masters preferred.
• PMP Certification preferred.

Physical Requirements: The ideal candidate must at a minimum be able to meet the following physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation:

• Ability to perform repetitive motions with the hands, wrists, and fingers.
• Ability to engage in and follow audible communications in emergency situations.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods at a desk and working on a computer.