GHD Group

Water & Wastewater Process Design Manager

GHD Group • $112K — $188K *
Harrisburg, PA 17112In-Person
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Engineering or related technical field.
  • Professional Engineering License or ability to obtain one.
  • Minimum of 7 years of experience in technical, administrative, and project roles.
  • Experience managing design delivery for municipal or industrial water and wastewater treatment projects.
  • Familiarity with scheduling software and cost estimating techniques is preferred.
  • Experience with process modeling tools like bio-win is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate cross-disciplinary technical teams to meet project goals.
  • Develop and implement comprehensive work plans with Project Managers and Directors.
  • Facilitate design decisions while empowering team leads.
  • Oversee quality assurance and client review processes throughout project life cycles.
  • Conduct needs assessments to identify emerging issues and key stakeholders.
  • Drive innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions for better collaboration.
  • Draft and evaluate engineering standards to ensure the delivery of quality work.

Benefits

  • Work within a high-performing and energetic team.
  • Hands-on involvement in impactful infrastructure projects.
  • Opportunities for professional development and supervision of practitioners.
  • Access to internal knowledge-sharing sessions and best practice development.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We're looking for a driven and experienced Water & Wastewater Process Design Manager to join our Engineering Design Organization! In this role, you'll coordinate technical teams across multiple design disciplines, ensuring projects meet client needs and comply with all applicable regulations. You'll be responsible for executing the technical scope of projects, developing work plans in collaboration with Project Managers and Directors, and verifying progress against schedule and budget. You'll empower team leads with the resources they need, facilitate design decisions, and oversee QA/QC and client review processes. From finalizing procurement documents to managing change records and participating in site visits and proposal development, this is a hands-on opportunity to shape impactful infrastructure projects with a collaborative, high-performing team.

Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:
  • Needs Assessment: Uncover emerging issues or needs, identifying potential causes, barriers, and key stakeholders, as well as related issues.
  • Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units
  • Engineering Solutions Design: Design engineering solutions and the associated validation process to enable the realization of a design brief (for example, in terms of functionality, performance, aesthetics, and cost) that conforms to organizational and/or regulatory standards.
  • Engineering Standards Specification: Analyze information, draft engineering standards and specifications, and evaluate the effectiveness of those standards within own engineering discipline to ensure work of the required quality is delivered and to inform engineering work in the organization and/or of its suppliers, contractors, and consultants.
  • Knowledge Management: Develop policies and processes, create best practices, set up case studies, and deliver internal knowledge-sharing sessions to capture and share knowledge among colleagues on project/program outcomes and innovative practices in a particular area of expertise and to support the practice.
  • Health, Safety, and Environment: Monitor and review performance against health, safety, and environment (HSE) key performance indicators (KPIs) and patterns of behavior within the area of responsibility. Take action to improve performance and to resolve noncompliance with the organization's HSE policies, procedures, and mandatory instructions.
  • Technical Developments Recommendation: Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the website/portal/application software and supporting infrastructure to better meet project needs.
  • Professional Supervision: Lead and oversee the provision of professional supervision to ensure that there is effective professional supervision that supports practitioners' professional development and embeds reflective practice.
  • Feasibility Studies: Conduct complex feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes, products, or business unit structure.
  • Project Management: Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.
  • Client & Customer Management (External): Manage important client relationships with guidance from senior colleagues.

What you will bring to the team:
  • Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Engineering or other technical discipline
  • Professional Engineering License or ability to obtain
  • At least 7 years of technical, administrative and project experience, managing the design delivery for larger, multi-discipline projects specifically for municipal/industrial water and wastewater treatment plants, facilities, or buildings preferred
  • Knowledge of scheduling software and engineering and capital cost estimating techniques is preferred
  • Process modeling such as bio-win a plus

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Salary range: $112,800-$188,000 based on experience

About GHD Group

GHD Group is a global engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting firm that provides services to clients in the water, energy, environment, property and buildings, and transportation sectors. The company was founded in 1928 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. GHD has more than 10,000 employees in over 200 offices worldwide, and it operates in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America. The company's services include engineering design, project management, asset management, environmental consulting, and digital services. GHD's clients include governments, private companies, and non-profit organizations, and its projects range from small-scale local initiatives to large-scale international infrastructure projects.
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10,000 employees
Industry
Real Estate & Construction
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