Assistant Technical Director

GAI Consultants is seeking a seasoned Assistant Technical Director to lead and deliver complex industrial water and wastewater design projects. This role is ideal for a dynamic professional with a passion for water infrastructure and a proven ability to manage multidisciplinary teams and client relationships.

Your next career move should challenge you, support you, and elevate you. If you're looking for a place where your expertise makes a real difference, this is it.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning, design, and construction services for industrial water and wastewater projects.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, and quality across multiple disciplines.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with both established and new clients.
• Develop and implement sales strategies for services.
• Mentor and develop a team of talented engineering professionals.
• Ensure technical excellence in advanced treatment facilities and process engineering.

Qualifications:

• B.S. Engineering or other technical degree, Master's Degree or Equivalent Experience Preferred
• Minimum 20 years of experience in process engineering and consulting.
• Demonstrated success in delivering water and wastewater treatment projects.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Deep technical knowledge of advanced treatment processes and facility design.

General Characteristics:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Performs advisory or consulting work for the organization across broad program areas or within a specialized area with innovative/complex aspects.
• Assesses practices and requirements to achieve sustainable performance of complex engineering projects from a systems perspective.

• Evaluates project management plans for complex engineering projects.
• Develops risk mitigation plans to address project risks.
• Evaluates effectiveness of leaders and teams while advancing concepts of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the solutions of engineering problems.
• Advocates for teamwork, leadership, diversity, and inclusion within the organization.

Communication, Teamwork and Leadership:

• Negotiates critical and controversial issues with leadership of other organizations.

• Represents their organization at important functions or conferences, including media interviews as required.
• Leads conversations that shape public, environmental, and infrastructure policy.
• Champions justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion within the organization and the communities in which they work.

Management, Supervision and Guidance:

• Leads an entire program of critical importance.
• Develops programs needed for accomplishing the objectives of the organization.
• Receives general administrative direction from a board of directors or regional council.
• Develops organizational strategy for staff development through mentored experience, continuing education, and self-development.
• Instills and fosters professional attitudes within the organization.
• Sets organizational policy to develop leadership skills of others, to improve teamwork, and to advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion programs.

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