Process Team Leader

Garver•Greenville, SC

12h

About The Position

The Process Team Leader will build, lead, and manage an engineering team within Garver’s Greenville Water Design Center, supporting projects for the Water Services Group across the company. The role combines hands-on water and wastewater process engineering with team leadership, project management, client engagement, and business development. The leader will coordinate process work across Water Design Centers and work closely with multidisciplinary project teams, regional offices, clients, and regulatory agencies. The role takes projects from conceptual planning through bid-ready documents, including facility and equipment layouts, design calculations, vendor coordination, and plans and specifications. The Process Team Leader will oversee process equipment design for water and wastewater infrastructure, manage staff and project workloads, develop project scopes and fees, and ensure that schedules, budgets, quality requirements, and Garver standards are met. Some business-development and project-specific travel may be required. Garver offers company-paid professional memberships, support for industry licenses and continuing education, competitive salary packages, attractive benefits, and a comprehensive wellness program. Garver is an employee-owned engineering, planning, and environmental services firm with more than 1,400 employees. It is committed to equal employment opportunities.

Requirements

Master’s degree in civil, chemical, or environmental engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
Registered Professional Engineer (PE) license or ability to become licensed.
At least 10 years of related technical experience.
At least 2 years of project or team leadership experience.
Ability to resolve issues through close interaction with project team members.
Ability to maintain a positive team attitude and interpersonal effectiveness to recruit, develop, and retain an efficient and productive team.

Nice To Haves

PE license in several states, including South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee.
At least 15 years of process engineering design experience and at least 5 years of project or team leadership experience.
Proven experience overseeing process designs, including detailed plans and specifications for major projects.
Overall understanding of water and wastewater treatment plant systems in a campus-wide environment.
Experience using Bluebeam and Microsoft Office products, including Excel, Outlook, and Word.
Experience performing process equipment evaluation, sizing, and cost estimating.
Experience using wastewater process modeling software such as Hydromatis GPS-X, Dynamita Sumo, and/or EnviroSim BioWin.
Experience using hydraulic modeling software.
Cost estimation experience.
Affiliation and active participation with water/wastewater organizations such as AWWA, WEF, or WRF.
Experience using AutoCAD and/or Revit CAD programs.
Good relationships with clients in the Water Design Center footprint.
Experience giving presentations to clients and professional organizations.
Strong teaching and coaching skills to mentor and communicate with team members at all levels.

Responsibilities

Support regional teams with treatment-related business development activities.
Develop conceptual-level designs for water and wastewater treatment systems.
Develop detailed designs, including contract documents, plans, and specifications.
Coordinate detailed treatment-facility design services with the process mechanical team and other support disciplines.
Prepare design calculations and construction cost estimates.
Coordinate with regional Garver offices, clients, support disciplines, and regulatory agencies.
Manage and mentor process teams, including professional development, schedules, workload, project budgets, and quality of work products.
Recruit talent for the process team.
Develop project scopes, schedules, levels of effort, and fees.
Plan, manage, and execute process staff and workload across Water Design Centers.
Ensure quality program compliance and adherence to Garver standards.
Develop, procure, and train staff on process standards and tools.
Participate in client meetings, industry conferences, and Water Business Line subject-matter-expert activities.
Travel as needed for business development, proposal development, interviews, knowledge-transfer sessions, conferences, site assessments, project workshops, design reviews, and construction support.