Senior Project Manager, Senior Water / Wastewater Engineer

GFT is seeking a Senior Project Manager - Senior Water / Wastewater Engineer to join our Water Resources Team in Miami, Florida! This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring regular attendance at our Miami office.

GFT’s Water Resources Team

Joining the water resources team at GFT means contributing to innovative solutions for sustainable water management and infrastructure. Our team excels in dams and levees, advanced water and wastewater treatment, stormwater management, and conveyance, collection, and transmission. With a focus on integrating technology, sustainability, and compliance, we consider each water resources and environmental remediation project a chance to innovate and evolve to protect public health and enhance quality of life. Explore some of our signature water resources and environmental projects here.  

What you’ll be challenged to do:

In this role you will use your technical and management abilities to plan, design and construct water/wastewater infrastructure in a dynamic team setting as well as to mentor junior staff. You will support business development activities and provide project management leadership of integrated teams to satisfy client requirements, including scope, schedule, budget, and quality while increasing our backlog, project revenue and profitability with current and new clients.

If you are a proven self-starter capable of leading medium to large scale projects with a customer-centric mentality and an emphasis on delivering quality at the highest level, this could be the right opportunity for you! 

In this capacity, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following: 

• Participate in and lead project teams in the planning, design and construction administration of municipal and industrial water and wastewater infrastructure facilities. Clients and projects may be in any location in the MidAtlantic regions. Candidate must have the flexibility to travel within the region periodically to help serve GF’s client base.
• Interact with clients including presentations and project coordination.
• Coordinate work activities with various technical staff and consultants including developing and implementing study and design standards for consultants to follow, leading progress meetings, preparing meeting agendas and minutes, tracking project schedules, and budgets.
• Water and Wastewater Treatment Facility Design, including basis of design reports, plans, specifications, calculations, cost estimates, condition assessments, technical evaluations, etc.
• Coordinate work activities and communicate with various municipalities and government regulating agencies.
• Prepare reports and permit applications
• Oversee construction contract management and inspection services
• Supervise and mentor junior and mid-level engineers
• Demonstrate professional technical writing and verbal skills
• Engage within the engineering industry in general; especially in the water/wastewater industry

• Bachelors of Science degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering (MS is preferred)
• 15+ years of experience required in water/wastewater discipline, particularly as a water/wastewater engineer designing (study, plans and specifications) water and/or wastewater infrastructure (i.e. treatment and collection/distribution projects)
• Professional Engineer License (PE) in Florida
• Progressive experience in the evaluation, design, permitting and construction administration of water and wastewater treatment facilities, pumping stations, water storage and distribution facilities, and wastewater collection systems
• Demonstrated project management experience including budget and schedule monitoring and control responsibilities
• Experienced in client relations and business development

• Master’s Degree is strongly preferred
• Experience with AutoCAD and/or BIM is preferred
• Leader and team player possessing strong planning and organizational skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to conduct effective client presentations and written report preparation.

At GFT, a privately held AEC firm, we innovate where transportation, water, power, and buildings converge. We call this the Infrastructure of Life. We measure our success by the strength of our relationships – that’s why we’re the employer of choice for 5,000+ of the industry’s brightest engineers, planners, architects, inspectors, designers, and more.

Our clients choose us for our expertise and prefer us for our nimble approach, creativity, and personal touch. Backed by over a century’s experience, together we’re building a lasting legacy for future generations: stronger communities, a healthier planet, and better lives.

GFT: Ingenuity That Shapes Lives™ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veterans’ status or other characteristics protected by law.

Unsolicited resumes from third party agencies will be considered the property GFT.

Location: Miami, Florida
Core Business Hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Employment Status: Full-Time
Salary Range: $140,000 - $180,000
Salary dependent upon experience and geographic location

GFT does require the successful completion of a criminal background check for all advertised positions.

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