Water Resources Market Leader

Overview

If you’re looking for a place to advance your career, where you can contribute to a dynamic innovative firm, tackle demanding project work, and collaborate with industry recognized professionals – Geosyntec Consultants is the place for you!  

Geosyntec is seeking a Principal level Water Resources Market Leader to join our growing national Water Resources Practice, based out of our Lakewood, CO office. The potential to work remotely from your home-office is available at the discretion of the Company. This is a unique opportunity to join a leadership team actively engaged in growing the water business at Geosyntec. This position will be responsible for developing and implementing a strategy for achieving significant market share for Geosyntec in the Water Resources market area. 

As a senior member of our Water Resources practice, you lead complex water resources projects around water supply management, water rights permitting, and groundwater / surface water management.  As a market leader, you will be responsible for a combination of technical project execution, client relationship management and water resource subject matter expertise, task and team leadership, while actively engaging existing and new client opportunities from a business development growth standpoint.  Our Water Resources group works on complex projects ranging from water supply development, water supply management, water rights, mining hydrogeology, contaminant hydrogeology, regulatory permitting, and source water protection, across the U.S.; In this role, you will have the opportunity to build and lead a team of experienced professionals, contribute to complex technical project work, as well as actively engage in growth and business development strategy.

Geosyntec is an innovative, international engineering and consulting firm serving private and public-sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service.

We invest in our people.  Each employee is unique, and your career at Geosyntec will be too.  We offer competitive pay and benefits, and well-being programs to support you and your family.

To Learn More Visit: http://www.geosyntec.com/careers/.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Strategic business planning to segment and target specific industrial, commercial and municipal clients for projects such as water supply, groundwater and surface water management, water availability analyses, water conservation, use and re-use, as well as regulatory considerations for water rights, permitting; focused on the West Region Water Resources market;
• Engagement with project and operations staff to align Geosyntec’s full service delivery capabilities with market demands;
• Serve in the capacity of a Client Account Manager on selected accounts in the Colorado/Front Range region deemed critical to Geosyntec’s Water Resources market;
• Active participation in professional societies, conferences, and meetings that will increase the visibility of the firm to potential clients and recruits. Make contributions to the profession that will result in individual recognition as an industry leader;
• Project management and direction, including helping to ensuring client expectations are understood and met, budgets are adhered to, quality objectives are met, and follow-on work is attainted – Strategically related to; local scale hydrogeologic analyses for water supply management, regulatory compliance and new source development; studies of aquifer systems; aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) and surface recharge basin projects, and permitting and regulatory compliance projects, including water rights;
• Recruiting, managing, and mentoring junior staff and mid-career engineers and scientists;
• Reviewing and leading the preparation of major proposals;
• Providing senior leadership subject matter expertise in meetings with clients, regulatory personnel, and other parties;
• Technical Project delivery and project-manager responsibility for scoping, performing, managing, and delivering multiple concurrent project assignments;
• Preparing technical reports, letters, memoranda, plans, specifications, and proposals
• Drive personal, company, and rental vehicles to client or company project or office sites, and other business locations, as needed. 

Education and Licensure

• Bachelor's degree in Water Resources, Environmental, Economics or related discipline with emphasis on resource policy and management. (required)
• Advanced degree in the same/similar (preferred)
• Professional registration (i.e., PE, CHG, etc.) (preferred)
• Other industry certifications (i.e. PMP, CWRE, Env SP, etc.) (preferred)

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• At least 10 years of direct water resources, water rights, environmental policy, hydrogeology, or engineering consulting and/or agency experience working on water resources; or equivalent combination of education and experience. (required)
• Experience with multi-disciplinary project teams. (required)
• Demonstrated success in project management, sales, and business development. (required)
• Excellent leadership and detail-orientation skills. (required)
• Ability and willingness to perform fieldwork and travel as needed. (required)
• Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing may be required.
• Valid U.S. driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel. (required)

This opportunity will be posted for at least five days. Below are the potential compensation ranges that we in good faith believe are applicable for this role at the time of this posting and are only applicable for jobs to be performed in the specified location(s) below. The typical base salary range for this position is just one component of Geosyntec’s total compensation package for employees. Actual compensation will be determined based on education, experience, skill set and location.

• Minimum Salary: $142,540 /year / Maximum Salary: $199,555 /year (Lakewood, CO)

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including, paid holidays, vacation, sick, and personal paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, 401(k), and other benefits to eligible employees.

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