Senior Cultural Resource Project Manager

Tetra Tech, Inc.; Reno (NV); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Merit-based rewards

Professional development

Work-life balance

Job summary

The Senior Cultural Resources Project Manager role at Tetra Tech, Inc. leads innovative planning, survey, and permitting solutions for clients within regulatory frameworks.

Manage projects across cultural, biological, social, and physical sciences, focusing on client relationships, proposals, and revenue targets. The position involves mentoring a multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality technical services, and expanding the practice through strategic business development and

Qualifications

• Masters degree in Anthropology, Archaeology, Historic Preservation, or a closely related discipline.
• Fifteen years of project management experience in cultural resource baseline and compliance monitoring, permitting, and planning.
• Experience working across disciplines to develop interdisciplinary solutions for a variety of market segments.
• Dynamic, self-starter with successful experience with project leadership, business development, and strategic planning.
• Direct proven account growth/management experience on accounts approaching or greater than $1M.
• Strong network of clients and long-standing established relationships.
• Must possess a valid driver's license with a clean driving record.

Responsibilities

• Integrate into Tetra Tech and leverage resources to advance business development and project execution.
• Provide leadership support to natural resource, permitting and planning practices with emphasis on NEPA.
• Build and mentor a locally-based technical team across cultural resources and related disciplines.
• Create enthusiasm and motivate junior team members about the work.
• Perform quality assurance reviews and lead complex projects for challenging clients.
• Lead RFP management, proposal preparation, and contract negotiation.
• Engage with clients and industry to foster opportunity generation.

Skills

Project management

Business development

Leadership

Client relationships

Strategic planning

Proposal development

Education

Masters degree in Anthropology, Archaeology, Historic Preservation, or a closely related discipline

Job description

The Opportunity

Tetra Tech is currently seeking a Senior Cultural Resources Project Manager with high-level expertise in developing innovative cultural resource planning, survey, and permitting solutions for clients through strategic evaluation of overall client goals and regulatory frameworks. Manager responsibilities include efficiently managing projects and programs involving cultural, biological, social, and physical sciences, and permitting and planning activities. Success will be measured in the Managers ability to foster client relationships, prepare successful proposals, perform technical services, and manage projects that result in long-term client relationships, provided value, and meet your personal and team's pre-defined revenue goals. The Senior Cultural Resources Project Manager may be asked to provide strategic leadership, business development, and other managerial tasks to further the growth of Tetra Tech's environmental science department. Department practices include a full suite of natural resource disciplines used in performing baseline data collection, regulatory compliance, environmental planning, modeling, and permitting. The Manager will also participate in projects as a technical expert team member working on projects across Tetra Tech's global footprint. Identifying and successfully contracting vertically integrated and cross discipline solutions to assist clients in attaining their goals by leveraging Tetra Tech's diverse group of scientists, engineers, planners, and strategists is a valued skill at Tetra Tech and one that can expand career opportunities and progression. The position location may be based out of Washington, Oregon, Neveda, or Arizona and involves some travel to meet with Tetra Tech team members and clients.

Why Tetra Tech

At Tetra Tech, we are Leading with Science to solve the world's most complex challenges. Our industry-leading experts in engineering and consulting are committed to driving positive change in communities around the world. For over 50 years, we have been at the forefront of innovation and sustainability. Today we stand as a market leader, offering cutting-edge solutions in water, environment, energy, and international development. Our work has improved more than 625 million lives around the world.

Your Impact

Join Tetra Tech to make a real difference. Our work leverages cutting-edge technologies, advanced analytics, and the expertise of world-class scientists and engineers to create meaningful change around the world. Discover your full potential - join us to advance your career while leaving a lasting legacy.

Essential Job Functions

• Rapidly integrate yourself into Tetra Tech to understand and leverage Tetra Tech's diverse resources and service offerings in your associated practice areas. Collaborate with operations and technical focused team members to advance business development, program and project implementation, and practice area strategies and goals with a focus on your key technical practice areas and opportunities in your region.
• Provide leadership support to Tetra Tech's overall natural resource, permitting, and planning practice with a focus on your specific area of expertise and associated emphasis on National Environmental Policy Act and ancillary permitting.
• As market conditions allow build, lead, and mentor a locally-based technical team of cultural resource specialists, biological, physical, social scientists, planners, and as appropriate health scientists across your home operating unit in Tetra Tech.
• Create enthusiasm and captivate the imagination of more junior team members with the work being performed regardless of where the team member sits.
• Perform quality assurance reviews, ensuring adequate performance by team members, and leading complex projects for challenging clients.
• Participate in Tetra Tech's industry initiatives, and resource practice related strategy groups. Stay current with and provide input on regulatory, financial, industrial, and practice trends in pertinent natural resource disciplines, how they relate to current and future client needs, and how they are generating interdisciplinary opportunities for other practices within Tetra Tech. Watch for opportunities to advance existing initiatives and strategy groups.
• Position yourself as a senior account lead for one or more client accounts identified as strategic pursuits. Meet client needs and provide high value services. Cross sell services outside of candidate's technical practice area and provide programmatic support and oversight for those interdisciplinary services that are provided to the candidate's client base with an eye toward growth of the overall service portfolio provided. Provided services should result in client's desire to continue and grow business relationship with Tetra Tech.
• Actively participate with local, regional, and global project teams to develop strategic client and opportunity capture plans and successfully implement those plans. Other activities will include RFP management, proposal preparation, contract negotiation, and project implementation.
• Engage and retain relationships with commercial industrial, financial, law and energy firms, state, federal, and local government, and private equity and other investment groups to facilitate opportunity generation.
• Capitalize on industry relationships/expertise/professional network to maintain and establish new relationships and ensure they are managed for growth.
• Attend and participate in core resource practices planning and permitting related events and conferences to promote Tetra Tech's expertise to the marketplace.
• Manage programs and projects and ensure that vertically integrated and cross-disciplinary projects generated through strategic business-development efforts are performed in accordance with Tetra Tech's project-management standards.
• Attract and assist in recruiting key talent who fit with Tetra Tech's entrepreneurial culture and team approach.

Required Qualifications

• Masters degree in Anthropology, Archaeology, Historic Preservation, or a closely related discipline.
• Fifteen years of project management experience in cultural resource baseline and compliance monitoring, permitting, and planning. Expertise and/or strong understanding in developing innovative strategies for clients across market segments including mining, oil and gas, renewable energy, energy transmission, telecommunication, and land management.
• Experience working across disciplines to develop interdisciplinary solutions for a variety of market segments and cross selling services outside of the candidate's technical focus area.
• Dynamic, self-starter with successful experience with project leadership, business development, and strategic planning focused on commercial, industrial, and government clients.
• Direct proven account growth/management experience on accounts approaching or greater than $1M.
• Strong network of clients and long-standing established relationships.
• Ability to delegate project and operation tasks to more junior team members to effectively utilize candidate's strengths is essential.
• Demonstrated experience in managing project finances to strong profitability and team workload, mentoring, and technical quality.
• Skilled in oral and written communication with demonstrated ability developing and delivering effective presentations to customers and management.
• A Pre-employment drug screening in compliance with state regulations is required.
• Must possess a valid driver's license with a clean driving record without restrictions.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Anthropology preferred but not required.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift, carry, push, and pull up to 30 pounds across uneven terrain in all weather conditions.
• Ability to travel to business functions as well as various client and office locations (approx. 25% or more of travel required).

Work Environment / Environmental Factors

• This position may have a hybrid work arrangement to be worked out with your supervisor, but the candidate must reside within 30 miles of the nearest office. This arrangement is subject to review and may change at the company's discretion.
• Frequent periods of time sitting or standing at a desk and using a computer. Occasional periods of time walking, lifting, and bending.
• Occasional periods of time working outside in various weather conditions.

Additional Information

• Full-time, Monday through Friday work schedule (40 hours). Occasionally extended hours may be required based on project and/or client needs.
• Work will be primarily performed in an office setting with periodic travel by vehicle or airplane to business meetings. Occasional field work may be required for oversight.

Target salary range: $100,000 to $125,000.

Please note that Tetra Tech considers various factors in determining pay, including but not limited to: education, relevant and demonstrated work experience in the role, skills, geographic location, qualifications, certifications, and other competencies relevant to the needs of the business.

Life at Tetra Tech

The perks of working at Tetra Tech include:

• Comprehensive and market-competitive benefits.
• Tetra Tech offers the following optional benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Long & Short-Term Disability, Health & Dependent Care Flexible Spending. Financial Benefits: Group Term Life, Optional Group Term Life Insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, Health Savings Account, 401K, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Time Off with Pay, Employee Assistance Program, Adoption Assistance, Leaves of Absence.
• Merit-based financial rewards.
• Flexibility and company-wide commitment to work/life balance.
• Collaborative team atmosphere that values the contributions of all employees.
• Learning and development opportunities for ongoing professional growth.

About Tetra Tech

Tetra Tech is the leader in water, environment, and sustainable infrastructure, providing high-end consulting and engineering services for projects worldwide. With 30,000 employees working together, Tetra Tech provides clear solutions to complex problems by Leading with Science ® to address the entire water cycle, protect and restore the environment, design sustainable and resilient infrastructure, and support the clean energy transition.

Tetra Tech is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. Tetra Tech is a VEVRAA federal contractor and we request priority referral of veterans.

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