Project Manager (Water) - NYC Metro

Ghd

The Role

Overview

Lead water and wastewater projects in NYC, managing design, execution, and client relations.

Key Responsibilities

  • feasibility
  • project management
  • tech development
  • solution design
  • standards
  • client management

Tasks

-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. -Project Management: Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues. -Technical Developments Recommendation: Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the website/portal/application software and supporting infrastructure to better meet users’ needs. -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. -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 conforms to organizational and/or regulatory standards. -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. -Engineering Standards Specification: Analyze information, draft engineering standards and specifications, and evaluate the effectiveness of those standards within own engineering discipline to ensure work of the required quality is delivered and to inform engineering work in the organization and/or of its suppliers, contractors, and consultants. -Needs Assessment: Uncover emerging issues or needs, identifying potential causes, barriers, and key stakeholders, as well as related issues. -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. -Professional Supervision: Lead and oversee the provision of professional supervision to ensure that there is effective professional supervision that supports practitioners' professional development and embeds reflective practice.

Requirements

  • engineering degree
  • 10+ years
  • regulatory knowledge
  • pe license
  • nycdep experience
  • communication

What You Bring

-Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Civil, Chemical, or Environmental Engineering or closely related field -At least 10 years of relevant water engineering experience -Knowledge of water regulations including wastewater treatment and conveyance, surface water treatment, lead and copper and disinfection byproduct rules -Willing and able to travel to project sites and client meetings as needed -Working experience with NYCDEP on design / construction projects is a plus -Professional Engineer (PE) license in NY or ability to acquire it -Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work both within a team and independently

The Company

About Ghd

-With a focus on innovation, it integrates expertise across various sectors to deliver world-class solutions. -The organization is known for tackling large and complex projects, such as designing bridges and tunnels and constructing energy-efficient buildings. -Notable projects include infrastructure development for major cities and energy-efficient solutions for industrial facilities. -The organization continues to expand its digital and technological capabilities to ensure solutions are cutting-edge and sustainable.

Sector Specialisms

Water

Energy

Resources

Environment

Property and Buildings

Transportation

Hydrology and Hydrodynamics

Digital Technologies

Engineering

Architecture

Environmental Services

Construction Services

Geological Engineering

Energy Management

Water Management

Dams

Mining Solutions

Asset Management

Hydrogen Projects

Water Operations

Sustainability

Automation

Disaster Response