Senior Water & Wastewater Project Leader

GHD; Columbia, Northern (SC, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

GHD in the US East Water team seeks an experienced Senior Project Manager to accelerate growth across South Carolina and Georgia. You will lead major water and wastewater initiatives, guide project strategy, budgets, schedules, and ensure delivery excellence from concept through construction.

In addition to project delivery, you’ll shape business development, craft proposals, price work, and build strong client relationships with regional clients, contributing to recruiting and mentoring a team

Responsibilities

• Client & Customer Management (External): Manage important client relationships with guidance from senior colleagues, or oversee relationship management with a group of more transactional clients and customers.
• Community of Practice Management: Participate in and contribute to a community of practice in a defined area of expertise or consulting to build own capability and develop innovative practice among colleagues.
• Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units, such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.
• Engineering Solutions Design: Design engineering solutions and the associated validation process to enable the realization of a design brief (for example, in terms of functionality, performance, aesthetics, and cost) that conform to organizational and/or regulatory standards.
• Feasibility Studies: Conduct complex feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes, products, or business unit structure.
• Health, Safety, and Environment: Monitor and review performance against health, safety, and environment (HSE) key performance indicators (KPIs) and patterns of behavior within the area of responsibility. Take action to improve performance and to resolve noncompliance with the organization's HSE policies, procedures, and mandatory instructions.
• Improvement/Innovation: Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organization's change management program. Involves working with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Knowledge Management: Develop policies and processes, create best practices, set up case studies, and deliver internal knowledge-sharing sessions to capture and share knowledge among colleagues on project/program outcomes and innovative practices in a particular area of expertise and to support the practice.
• Organizational Capability Building: Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions, including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions, to build their professional capabilities. Provide informal training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.

Job description

GHD in the US East Water team seeks an experienced Senior Project Manager to accelerate growth across South Carolina and Georgia. You will lead major water and wastewater initiatives, guide project strategy, budgets, schedules, and ensure delivery excellence from concept through construction.

In addition to project delivery, you’ll shape business development, craft proposals, price work, and build strong client relationships with regional clients, contributing to recruiting and mentoring a team