Black & Veatch

Project Director - Water Business

Black & Veatch$202K — $343K *
Energy & Utilities
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of water/wastewater experience with leadership roles
  • Professional Engineering License
  • Bachelor's Degree in a technical field
  • Strong understanding of budgets and financial metrics
  • Contract negotiation skills, including knowledge of terms and risks

Responsibilities

  • Manage medium to large EPC/service projects, focusing on cost, schedule, and quality
  • Oversee day-to-day project execution ensuring client satisfaction and contractual compliance
  • Lead and staff multi-disciplinary project teams effectively
  • Coordinate engineering, procurement, construction, and startup activities for project success
  • Drive business development initiatives including client engagements and marketing strategies
  • Develop project performance goals and manage financial aspects such as budgeting and invoicing
  • Mentor and coach team members to enhance performance and prepare future leaders

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on community-focused infrastructure projects
  • Engage with high-profile clients, enhancing professional visibility
  • Access to a supportive team environment with mentorship opportunities
  • Development-focused workplace promoting training and career advancement
  • Involvement in a wide range of engineering disciplines and project types
Full Job Description
Company : Black & Veatch Corporation

Req Id : 114837

Opportunity Type : Staff

Relocation eligible : No

Full time/Part time : Full-Time

Project Only Hire : No

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

The Opportunity

As the Client Director, you will have the opportunity to:
  • Manage all aspects of medium to large Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC)/Service projects, including risk to cost, schedule, quality
  • Be responsible for the day-to-day successful execution of contracted engineering, procurement, and construction scope in the areas of performance, financial metrics, planning, schedule, quality, contractual compliance, safety, and client satisfaction
  • Provide for the successful staffing of the project
  • Manage and lead medium to large teams of multi-discipline professionals
  • Coordinate and integrate the activities associated with the engineering, procurement, construction, and startup elements of the project team, including the activities of all third party companies contributing to the initiative


The Team

Black & Veatch's Governments & Communities focuses on specific infrastructure needs of municipalities, state and local governments, and specialized physical and digital infrastructure solutions for government and federal agencies. By joining our market sector, you will be able to provide infrastructure for community benefit.

Work with clients such as the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. Check out one of our recent projects: https://www.bv.com/en-US/projects/southern-boston-area-is-served-by-water-transmission-spine-that-provides

Key Responsibilities

Business development:
  • Leading team efforts for marketing
  • Strategy development
  • Prospect identification, proposal development, proposal preparation, client presentations, project budgeting and contracting for successful opportunities
  • Accountable for new business objectives and for overall project performance

Project management:
  • External focus to interact with assigned clients, become involved in client activities and promote Black & Veatch through client and community activities
  • Support development of the overall market business plan, market strategies, client engagement strategies and leverage other Black & Veatch technical and management resources to advance Black & Veatch's market footprint

Project execution:
  • Oversight of engineering manager(s)
  • Development of project performance goals
  • Accountability for implementation
  • Active involvement with internal project team and owner project representatives on project activities
  • Perform or assist with the performance and commercial management of projects including budgeting, invoicing, and payments; lead project performance reviews for assigned project(s)

Staff management:
    • Team development, mentoring and coaching on performance improvement
    • Recommendations for training and promotion of assigned professionals as well as identification and development of new candidates to expand the Black & Veatch team


Management Responsibilities

Acts as a project manager. Among responsibilities is management of a project team. The individual comprising this team may vary by project.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 15 + years of active water/wastewater experience with demonstrated leadership experience
  • Professional Engineering License; Bachelor's Degree in technical discipline
  • Understanding of budgets and financial metrics
  • Contract negotiation skill including knowledge of terms, risks, pricing and payment terms


Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Certifications

None specified

Salary Plan

PMT: Project Management

Job Grade

020

In accordance with local law, the following Annual compensation range is applicable for the job and location associated with this requisition: $202,212.00 - $343,752.00

About Black & Veatch

Black & Veatch is a global engineering and construction company. The company was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. Black & Veatch provides a range of services, including engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services, consulting, and environmental services. The company serves a variety of industries, including power, water, telecommunications, and oil and gas. Black & Veatch has operations in more than 100 countries around the world.
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