Water & Wastewater Infrastructure Planning Leader - California

Black & Veatch Family of Companies•Walnut Creek, CA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

This leadership position represents a strategic business opportunity for Black & Veatch’s Distribution & Collection System Planning, helping the company grow its market share by providing world-class water & wastewater infrastructure planning services. Black & Veatch has an exciting opportunity for a Water & Wastewater Infrastructure Planning Business Leader based in our California market area. In this role, you will have the opportunity to provide leadership for our water & wastewater infrastructure planning business in our California market area and beyond. You will work closely with Client Directors and Project Managers to leverage existing, and build new, relationships with clients and decision makers. You will provide technical solutions and differentiation for our clients, and Black & Veatch, focused on water distribution and wastewater collection systems. You will evaluate water and wastewater system capacity, condition, resilience, operating efficiency, and water quality. You will perform analysis and projections of water demands and wastewater flows. You will use risk-based assessments to develop and prioritize capital improvement programs. You will integrate condition assessment and asset management data into system master planning to support replacement & renewal planning. You will use cutting-edge hydraulic modeling, GIS, asset management, and data visualization software to help solve client issues. You will provide project execution and technical leadership support for our planning & asset management projects as well as our water and wastewater program projects. You will support and lead marketing and business development in our California market area and beyond. You will support and lead pursuit, proposal, and project interview activities.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing.
Minimum of 11 years related work experience.
Professional Engineer (P.E.) License

Nice To Haves

Experience with technical and thought leadership surrounding water and wastewater infrastructure systems.
Experience in a client-facing role.
11+ years of infrastructure assessment experience including hydraulic modeling, master planning, and data analysis. Experience or familiarity with asset management and condition assessment is a plus.
Experience leading technical tasks and project teams and executing water distribution and wastewater collection system studies and assessments that involve system operations modeling, optimization techniques, risk & resiliency evaluations, capital and life-cycle cost analyses, CIP prioritization.
Proficient with data analyses, analytics, and visualization
Proficient with report writing and PowerPoint presentations.
Experience in developing proposals and leading technical discussions during client interviews/projects.
Experience and/or familiarity with Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and software (i.e., ArcGIS)
Capable in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.)
Familiarity with dynamic data visualization software such as PowerBI
Experience and/or familiarity with hydraulic modeling software such as: InfoWorks, ICM, OpenFlows Water/Sewer (WaterGEMS and SewerGEMS), InfoWater Pro, EPANet, EPASWMM, PCSWMM

Responsibilities

Provide leadership for our water & wastewater infrastructure planning business in our California market area and beyond.
Work closely with Client Directors and Project Managers to leverage existing, and build new, relationships with clients and decision makers.
Provide technical solutions and differentiation for our clients, and Black & Veatch, focused on water distribution and wastewater collection systems.
Evaluate water and wastewater system capacity, condition, resilience, operating efficiency, and water quality.
Perform analysis and projections of water demands and wastewater flows.
Use risk-based assessments to develop and prioritize capital improvement programs.
Integrate condition assessment and asset management data into system master planning to support replacement & renewal planning.
Use cutting-edge hydraulic modeling, GIS, asset management, and data visualization software to help solve client issues.
Provide project execution and technical leadership support for our planning & asset management projects as well as our water and wastewater program projects.
Support and lead marketing and business development in our California market area and beyond.
Support and lead pursuit, proposal, and project interview activities.