Engineering Manager 1

GAI Consultants, Inc.•Munhall, PA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

GAI Consultants, Inc. is seeking a technically diversified Civil/Geotechnical Engineering Manager 1 to support their Power Generation Geotechnical Engineering Group working in the Richmond, VA office. The ideal candidate will focus on developing client and business relationships, providing staff management, and offering civil and geotechnical engineering expertise across a diverse range of multi-discipline design and construction projects. This role involves performing project planning, design, engineering, and geotechnical engineering services for Energy, Institutional, Industrial, and Manufacturing clients. The position offers opportunities to work on stimulating projects with supportive teammates, advance one's career, fulfill professional aspirations, and express an entrepreneurial spirit within an established and growing company.

Requirements

Applies thorough knowledge of current principles and practices of engineering related to the variety of aspects affecting their practice.
Applies progressively acquired expertise to resolve crucial issues and/or unique conditions.
Keeps informed of new methods and developments affecting their practice and recommends new practices or changes in emphasis of projects.
Leads projects of moderate complexity and scope or leads a major project.
Analyzes complex problems across specialty areas appropriate to the practice of engineering.
Analyzes ethical dilemmas to determine appropriate courses of action.
12+ years of experience.
B.S. or M.S. in Engineering.
Professional Engineer (P.E.) License, reciprocity in multiple states.
Frequently serves as the technical advisor for the practice in the application of advanced concepts and methods in an assigned area.
Keeps informed of new developments and requirements affecting the practice for the purpose of recommending changes in projects or applications.
Frequently develops new techniques and/or improved processes, materials, or products.
Values and analyzes sustainable performance of complex engineering projects from a systems perspective.
Frequently plans, schedules, and coordinates the preparation of documents or activities for multiple major projects or is responsible for an entire project of a practice.
Analyzes project management plans for complex engineering projects.
Understands project delivery uncertainties and uses risk management principles to address them. Reviews operational procedures to ensure compliance with applicable policies and performance measures.
Supervises a staff of engineers and technicians.
Receives administrative supervision with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
Provides continued mentored experience to senior staff.
Integrates professional attitudes relevant to the practice of engineering and fosters creativity, curiosity, flexibility, and dependability in staff.
Applies principles of formal strategic and persuasive communications.
Represents their area of specialty within the practice and liaises with related individuals and practices.
Routinely interacts with practice leaders, clients, officials, contractors, and others.
Integrates concepts of effective teamwork and leadership.

Nice To Haves

May serve as the Project Manager for certain projects with prior approval from GAI's President up to $50,000 per year.

Responsibilities

Building relationships with Energy, Institutional, Industrial, and Manufacturing clients and internal clients within GAI’s Business Sectors.
Leading business development pursuits and developing statements of qualifications and proposed project scopes of work, schedules, budgets, and fees.
Developing an understanding of and marketing the services GAI performs.
Collaborating, developing, and executing a business plan.
Serving as a primary seller/doer for the Power Generation Business Sector, Geotechnical Group throughout the Mid-Atlantic.
Project and task management responsibilities include delivering the scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, and profitability of all projects managed. Plans and manages small to medium value projects and multiple projects at one time. Works closely with Project Accounting to monitor and control project cost and billings to meet budget profit, analyze project performance data, and develop recovery plans as needed.
Providing design, management, and technical direction and oversight associated with geotechnical components on multi-discipline design and construction projects.
Provide leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to the geotechnical group.
Leading teams to successfully execute all assigned projects.
Working with Accounting staff to monitor and control project costs and billings to meet budgeted profit.