Railroad Environmental Remediation Program Director

There’s no pledge more important than the one we make to look after our environment, and we’re committed to helping you do exactly that.

Join us as we strive to ensure a sustainable future for our communities and the world we live in.  

Become part of our global network of skilled engineers, scientists, auditors, planners and environmental specialists, all working together to leave this world better than we found it. 

Who are we looking for?   

GHD has an opportunity for a Railroad Environmental Remediation Program Director. We are looking for a motivated individual who can achieve success, excel at intuitively grasping client needs, and thrive in cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have excellent management and coordination skills to cultivate client partnership, enable technical innovation, and ensure program compliance. If your strengths are building strong relationships, meticulously managing project compliance standards, and motivating and supporting your team to achieve greatness, then this role is tailor-made for you.

Responsibilities

• Culture of Innovation: Define the execution plan to disseminate innovative capabilities across the businesses, helping people develop these competencies and enabling them to innovate through solutions such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.
• Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across the program to identify relevant stakeholders, to create mutually supportive working relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice at both project and program levels.
• Transformational Change Management: Lead the detailed design of projects within a transformational change program and manage their delivery, ensuring integration with related projects; use structured change management methodologies to drive acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.
• Leadership and Direction: Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
• Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Project Team Management: Lead large project and program teams (or multiple small- to medium-sized teams); define the project/program vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; manage resources across projects/programs; negotiate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Project Assurance: Lead the design and delivery of project assurance reviews, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and ensure that appropriate actions are taken to resolve any issues identified, to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.
• Project Scope Definition: Lead the planning and delivery of complex, wide-ranging information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on program and project deliverables, ensuring integration across the program and with the wider portfolio, where present.
• Project Governance: Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined within the project-delivery and project-management office teams, and ensure project compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
• Portfolio Management: Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of programs within a significant area of responsibility, using an appropriate program and project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved.
• Enterprise Business Analysis: Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level. Lead the improvement efforts that are within span of control at this level.
• Project Benefit Realization: Lead the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure that intended business benefits are realized across a program.
• Project Resource Management: Lead the negotiation and deployment of annual and longer-term program and project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
• Project Risk and Issue Management: Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately at project level. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of the project, develop and agree on recovery plans.

What you will bring to the team:

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Engineering, Geology, Science or related field
• Professional licensure (PE or PG) a plus
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in contaminated site investigation and remediation including complex project sites, with expertise in regulatory strategies and client engagement
• Class I railroad experience, including compliance with federal/state environmental regulations and permitting processes
• A deep understanding of U.S. EPA and state environmental regulations, multimedia remedial technologies, and methods for site characterization and hydrogeologic analysis
• OSHA 40 Hour HAZWOPER certification preferred
• E-Railsafe certification preferred
• Able to travel to project sites for short durations (including overnight travel) throughout the U.S. at least once per month

Benefits: 

• 401K - Employees are eligible to participate on the first day of the month following 3 months of service
• Paid time off – Our PTO benefit is designed to provide eligible employees with a period of rest and relaxation, sick, and personal time throughout the year. PTO starts at 16 days per year and increases with years of service
• Holiday Pay - Holiday pay is provided for eligible employees. GHD observes 9 holidays per year. Holiday pay will be based on the regular set schedule for the employee
• Wellness Benefit- Regular full-term employees are eligible to participate in the wellness reimbursement program. GHD will reimburse 50% of the cost of the following to maximum of $250.00 reimbursement annually for such items as: Health club membership fees, Home exercise equipment purchases, Bicycles, Race, run & marathon entrance fees, Smoking cessation programs, Weight loss programs (i.e.—Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig), Fitbits and Fitness Tracking devices

Salary Range: $131,000-$267,000 based on experience and location.

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