GAI Consultants Inc

Senior Power Generation Engineering Manager

GAI Consultants Inc • $120K — $150K *
Glen Allen, VA 23060In-Person
Energy & Utilities
15+ years of experience
More than 3 months ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 16+ years of experience in engineering management
  • B.S. or M.S. in Engineering; Master's preferred
  • Professional Engineer (P.E.) License with multi-state reciprocity
  • Strong business development and client relationship skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication capabilities

Responsibilities

  • Build relationships with clients in the Energy, Institutional, Industrial, and Manufacturing sectors
  • Lead business development and project proposal initiatives
  • Develop and market GAI's service offerings
  • Execute a strategic business plan
  • Serve as a primary seller/doer for the Mid-Atlantic Power Generation sector
  • Provide technical direction on civil components for multi-discipline projects
  • Oversee project costs and billing in collaboration with Accounting

Benefits

  • Market-based, competitive compensation
  • Performance-driven recognition and development bonuses
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Company paid short-term and long-term disability
  • Generous paid time off plus 7 paid holidays
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Tuition reimbursement and support for professional development
Full Job Description
Senior Engineering Manager 1 to be based out of Virginia in our Power Business Unit's Power Generation Business Sector. GAI's Power Business Unit focuses on developing and supporting Energy, Institutional, Industrial, and Manufacturing clients. An ideal candidate's opportunities would include developing client and business relationships and providing staff management and civil engineering expertise across a diverse range of multi-discipline design and construction projects. In addition to GAI's generous Employer 401K Plan match, this position is eligible for GAI's flexible hybrid and/or remote work schedules.

Responsibilities:
  • Building solid relationships with Energy, Institutional, Industrial, and Manufacturing clients and internal clients within GAI's Business Sectors.
  • Leading business development pursuits and developing statements of qualifications and proposed project scopes of work, schedules, budgets, and fees.
  • Developing a solid understanding of and marketing the services GAI performs.
  • Collaborating, developing, and executing a business plan.
  • Serving as a primary seller/doer for the Power Generation Business Sector throughout the Mid-Atlantic.
  • Providing design, management, and technical direction and oversight associated with civil components on multi-discipline design and construction projects.
  • Leading teams to successfully execute all assigned projects.
  • Working with Accounting staff to monitor and control project costs and billings to meet budgeted profit.

Physical Requirements
  • Ability to work indoors in professional office settings.
  • Ability to sit for extended periods while performing computer-based tasks.
  • Frequent use of hands and fingers for typing, writing, and handling office equipment.
  • Visual acuity to read printed materials, digital screens, detailed documents, and perform detailed work.
  • Occasional standing, walking, bending, or reaching within the office environment. Ability to move between workstations and attend in-person meetings.
  • Ability to lift and carry office materials or equipment weighing up to 10-20 pounds, with or without assistance.
  • Adequate hearing to participate in conversations, phone calls, and virtual meetings.
  • Ability to travel for meetings, training, or business purposes.

General Characteristics
  • Uses creativity, foresight, and mature judgment to anticipate and solve new problems.
  • Practice activities and culture. Sets priorities and reconciles directions from competing interests.
  • Leads projects with complex features with work performed directly, or by others.
  • Integrates engineering economics and risk analysis into the solutions of complex engineering problems.
  • Integrates solutions to complex problems across specialty areas.
  • Demonstrates leadership.

Minimum Years of Experience
  • 16+ Years

Education
  • B.S. or M.S. Engineering, Master's Degree or Equivalent Experience Preferred

Certification/Licensure
  • Professional Engineer (P.E.) License, reciprocity in multiple states.

Technical Responsibilities
  • Frequently develops standards and guidelines. Leads a project in the practice in their area of specialization.
  • Frequently develops appropriate design alternatives for complex engineering projects that consider realistic requirements, constraints, community input, permitting, and other regulatory constraints.
  • Integrates advanced concepts, including sustainability, to solve complex problems.

Project and Task Management
  • Frequently oversees technical, legal, and financial issues of an entire project.
  • Recommends facilities, personnel, and funds required to carry out projects. Integrates these components into a complete project management plan for a complex engineering project.
  • Implements effective teamwork and leadership principles into solutions for engineering problems.
  • Determines project objectives and requirements.
  • May serve as the Project Manager for certain projects with prior approval from GAI's President up to $150,000 per year.

Management Responsibility
  • Supervises a major practice segment or several teams. Receives administrative supervision with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
  • Implements staff development plans within their practice segment, including technical, management, and leadership skills.
  • Evaluates the effectiveness of leaders and teams.

Communication Skills
  • Possesses exceptional oral and written communication skills, including negotiation of critical issues.
  • Integrates different forms of effective and persuasive communication to technical and nontechnical audiences.
  • Demonstrates financial acumen and familiarity with legal issues related to engineering practice.
  • Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with key engineers and officials.


Benefits To Working at GAI Include:

Competitive Pay & Recognition
  • Market based, competitive compensation
  • Performance driven recognition and development bonuses

Comprehensive Health & Wellness
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Company paid short-term and long-term disability
  • Company paid life insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources

Meaningful Work-Life Balance
  • Generous paid time off + 7 paid holidays
  • An additional floating holiday-use it for what matters to you
  • Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

Growth, Learning & Financial Security
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Support and rewards for professional development and certifications

About GAI Consultants Inc

GAI Consultants, Inc. is a multi-discipline engineering and environmental consulting firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with over 1,000 employees in offices throughout the eastern United States. GAI provides local expertise to worldwide clients in the energy, transportation, development, government, and industrial markets.
Learn more about GAI Consultants Inc
Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$10 million
5 Year Trend
+5%
Revenue
$150 million
* Ladders Estimates

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