The National Specialty Leader (NSL) will set the vision and strategy for the Environmental Planning and Permitting (EP&P) specialty while ensuring alignment to the company strategy, national practice, and business units. In this role, you will also be responsible for driving market growth, developing talent, and delivering high quality solutions in a way that continues to drive our technical differentiation from that of our competitors.
Detailed Description:
Who you are:
- You consistently demonstrate strong leadership, coaching and communication skills.
- You excel in strategy development, including project management, business analysis, problem solving, consensus building, and talent development.
- You are a results-orientated leader with the ability to bring cross-functional partners together and quickly shift course as necessary to achieve goals.
- You are confident, yet humble and can effectively consult and partner with multiple business partners with varying needs.
- You are able to marshal resources and convey a clear vision across an enterprise in order to meet or exceed objectives.
- You are able to create innovative and effective client solutions that are aligned with water resources, environmental services and company business objectives.
- You have experience and are able to manage multiple complex projects and programs, in diverse settings and with changing requirements.
- You thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative team atmosphere.
What you will do:
Practice Specialty Leadership
- Create a vision and priorities for the EP&P specialty area in alignment with and to inform national practice strategy.
- Grow and assist in leading our growing environmental planning and permitting services and capabilities with a focus federal and state permitting, siting and regulatory review, and environmental assessment and documentation on water resources, water supply and wastewater, mining, and industrial infrastructure projects within the US for diverse set of existing and new municipal and private sector clients.
- Provide leadership and management on a wide variety of environmental planning and permitting projects.
- Ensure the collective knowledge of specialty is technically rigorous, effectively documented, regularly updated, and disseminated across the company.
- As member of national practice leadership team, work closely with NPL and other NSLs to advance the practice strategy nationally and working with regional and area practice leads to promote technical differentiation.
- Support development and application of innovative solutions, including strategic research and development efforts and engagement with the National Technical/Innovation Leader (NTIL) in the practice.
- Organize a team of leaders to support the specialty and drive use of the Practice Portal (previously known as the CoP workspace) to ensure active communication and collaboration within the specialty while maintaining oversight and guidance as an active leader
Project Delivery Quality and Efficiency
- Oversee prioritization and development of national technical standards (guidelines, best practices, tools, content), governance, and consistent usage by CoP members for efficient, high-quality execution of specialty elements.
- On strategic and complex projects, engage directly with delivery team throughout project life cycle, including early concept development, solution selection, project design, execution, and risk mitigation.
- Ensure relevant Subject Matter Specialists (SMS) engage effectively with project teams to apply consistent technical approaches, risk management, and quality delivery.
- Support national sharing of resources (“H-play”) to match top technical talent with strategic projects, working closely with national and regional practice leaders – getting the “right people” on the “right projects” through collaboration with Regional Practice Leaders.
Client Development and Sales
- In close association with Client Service Teams (CSTs), assume Client-facing Technical Leadership roles with strategic clients, including trusted advisor for clients and CSTs.
- Directly engage with clients to build relationships, assess needs, and develop technical solutions.
- Bring technical insights from engagement with client peers/network.
- Understand our competition in terms of strategic direction of their approach to the specialty area, and their technical focus, staff, strengths, and weaknesses. Equip business units with winning technical strategies.
- Work to build capacity and capability to deliver on business unit strategic goals for capturing and delivering work in priority services related to the specialty
Knowledge & Technical Standards
- Create efficient, high-quality practice execution through development and consistent application of national technical standards including process and design guidelines, best practices, tools, model work scopes, and governance. Encourage consistent usage by practice members.
- Oversee implementation of Quality Fundamentals and Subject Matter Specialists (SMS) governance, in partnership with Specialty Leaders responsible for SMS badging and performance.
Talent Development
- Lead implementation and adjudication of SMS governance, systems (i.e., “badging “) and plans for talent development to ensure a high performing “bench” of technical practitioners.
- Set a foundation for SMS engagement in projects to develop staff by direct mentoring and training on the project.
- Experience with and ability to anticipate discipline needs, hire, train, develop, mentor, and retain junior staff as we grow our client base and workload.
- Lead initial formulation of Specialty team, identifying members and their current Subject Matter Specialist Level.
- Support recruiting (identifying needs and candidates, informing decisions), communicate perceived gaps and needs with BU operational leads, and support hiring plans into business planning efforts.
- Responsible for development of technical training and mentoring program within the specialty.
BC Brand and Industry Leadership
- Expand recognition in the industry for relevant specialty. Lead representation of the BC brand as industry thought-leader, including strategic messaging, peer-reviewed and other publications, and team member visibility.
- Work with practice leadership team and operations leaders to develop national and regional conference plans. Champion strategic national conferences, presentation strategies, and selection of technical attendees.
- Support local conferences, workshops, and other means of visibility in strategic geographies, in coordination with Regional Practice Leaders, operations leaders, and CSTs.
- Work closely with Corporate Communications on internal and industry communications, digital media, and branding.
- Stay current with technology and market trends, inform annual State of the Industry Report, and inform strategic planning process.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- B.S. engineering, planning, environmental science, or related discipline required; M.S. degree and professional certification in field preferred, with an emphasis related to the EP&P specialty.
- A minimum 15 years’ increasingly responsible professional experience in consulting, science, and engineering services in the water resources, environmental and civil sector including business development and project delivery.
- Experience building rapport and trust with key clients, business leaders, and team members.
- Proven track record of successfully winning and executing profitable assignments for clients and building key target client accounts.
- Excellent communication skills and experience in making technical and business presentations.
- Proven track record of successfully managing projects and/or programs and delivering on time and on budget while meeting or exceeding client expectations.
- Ability to properly scope new business opportunities, including identifying and working within a team to make critical decisions on whether to pursue the opportunities.
- Ability to motivate others and lead teams to implement plans for projects and client pursuits.
- Ability to oversee and drive the preparation of key proposals and deliverables.
- Excellent understanding of business drivers for clients and projects.
- Ability to represent the company with key clients and teaming partners for business and contract matters.
- Project experience working with Section 404 and 316 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act including coordination with regulatory agencies; project experience preparing NEPA documentation under NEPA and state equivalent SEPA programs; working knowledge of environmental regulations such as Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act, and Environmental Justice requirements of Executive Order 12898.
- Demonstrated experience working with federal agencies such as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), NOAA Fisheries, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management, etc.
- Extensive experience in serving clients, collaboration and building consensus, working with stakeholder groups, sales and marketing, branding, and business growth.
- Proven success in technical presentation, proposal writing, and public presentations.
Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Location A: $137,000 - $187,000
Location B: $151,000 - $206,000
Location C: $164,000 - $225,000
You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter.
Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.
About Brown and Caldwell
Headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction firm with 52 offices and 1,900 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice—to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com
This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.
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