Role OverviewReporting directly to the Water Business Group (WBG) President, the WBG Professional Services Director serves as a key member of the WBG Business Group leadership team, providing executive leadership for technical quality, project delivery excellence, and professional practice. The position aligns technical practice groups across the matrix organization, strengthens delivery capabilities, and advances consistent standards, processes, and best practices that enhance project performance, quality and client outcomes, to support high-quality project outcomes.
What You Will Do
Lead and monitor the development and training of business group staff in technical, professional, business, and service delivery competencies. Lead the evaluation, implementation, and adoption of professional services technologies, digital delivery tools, and enabling systems that improve quality, efficiency, consistency, and risk management across the business group. Lead quality assurance efforts to implement QA and QC Program activities that provide confidence the business group is fulfilling quality and delivery requirements and striving for continuous improvement. Support business group activities related to recruiting, hiring, retaining, and developing key staff; workload and resource balancing; qualified staffing of project and program teams; involvement in technical and professional associations; publishing; community and client engagement; technology advancement; service delivery growth; and risk management.
Why It Might Be a Fit
This role requires 15 years of experience and demonstrated experience in managing and developing technical teams and practices. The ideal candidate maintains a professional engineering registration with extensive related technical expertise and has extensive experience in the leadership and management of professional services, program management, project delivery, construction management, owner’s advisor, or alternative and collaborative delivery services on complex or large-scale programs and projects. The expected compensation range for this position is $175,000 - $300,000 depending upon skills, experience, education and geographical location.
Requirements
- 15 years of experience
- Demonstrated experience in managing and developing technical teams and practices
- Maintain AEC industry associations
- An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must
Benefits
- medical insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- short and long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
- employee assistance program
- paid time away
- parental leave
- paid holidays
- retirement savings plan with employer match
- employee referral bonus
- tuition reimbursement
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