Assistant Engineering Director

GAI Consultants•Homestead, PA

About The Position

GAI Consultants is seeking a seasoned Assistant Technical Director to lead and deliver complex industrial water and wastewater design projects. The role involves leading multidisciplinary teams, managing client relationships, and providing technical expertise in water infrastructure, advanced treatment facilities, and process engineering. The position provides advisory or consulting work across broad project areas or specialized areas with innovative or complex aspects, and contributes to organizational strategy and staff development. The role oversees multiple large or multidisciplinary project teams, develops projects to accomplish practice objectives, evaluates complex project management plans, and creates risk mitigation plans. It receives general administrative direction and represents the organization at important functions and conferences. The position may manage projects up to $250,000 in yearly value without the GAI President’s approval, though this is a small component of the overall work. GAI describes a collaborative, multidisciplinary, team-driven environment focused on integrity, respect, and shared success. The company offers opportunities across the U.S., with regional teams supported by company resources and career-development opportunities.

Requirements

20+ years of experience.
Demonstrated success delivering water and wastewater treatment projects.
Strong leadership and communication skills.
Deep technical knowledge of advanced treatment processes and facility design.
B.S. or M.S. in Engineering, or equivalent experience; a master’s degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
Professional Engineer (P.E.) license; reciprocity in multiple states.
Ability to make decisions with broad influence on organizational activities.
Creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing, and guiding projects and activities of major consequence.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or equivalent experience.
Professional Engineer (P.E.) license with reciprocity in multiple states.

Responsibilities

Lead planning, design, and construction services for industrial water and wastewater projects.
Manage project scope, schedule, budget, and quality across multiple disciplines.
Cultivate and maintain relationships with established and new clients.
Develop and implement sales strategies for services.
Mentor and develop engineering professionals.
Ensure technical excellence in advanced treatment facilities and process engineering.
Provide advisory or consulting work across broad project areas or specialized areas with innovative or complex aspects.
Assess practices and requirements for sustainable performance of complex engineering projects from a systems perspective.
Oversee multiple large or multidisciplinary project teams.
Develop projects needed to accomplish practice objectives.
Evaluate project management plans for complex engineering projects.
Develop risk mitigation plans for project risks.
Evaluate the effectiveness of leaders and teams.
Develop organizational strategy for staff development through mentored experience, continuing education, and self-development.
Negotiate critical and controversial issues with leadership.
Represent the organization at important functions and conferences.
Assess engineering economic analyses and risks associated with solutions to complex engineering problems.
Evaluate solutions to complex problems involving multiple engineering specialty areas.
Assess courses of resolution to ethical dilemmas in complicated situations.