Group Leader Water - South Division

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As the Water Group Lead in South Division, you will champion our PRIDE values and foster a collaborative, innovative culture. Your role involves driving business development by generating project leads, building client relationships and winning work, as well as leading project work to ensure high‑quality deliverables, and managing Water staff across the South Division. This is a unique opportunity to work with our Water Market and Practice Leads to leverage our existing Water presence and help build Mott Mac Donald’s brand visibility and market share across the South Division, initially focused on the Florida/Georgia marketplace.

You will be a visible leader within our offices and an ambassador for the Mott Mac Donald brand both internally and externally, prioritizing a positive culture in the face of continued growth within the Unit. You will oversee resource planning, hiring, and succession planning, while ensuring compliance with quality assurance, health and safety, and ethical standards. Talent identification and recruitment is a primary objective of this role, onboarding high‑potential candidates with strong water technical skills and local area relationships that can help grow our market share, brand visibility and delivery capabilities.

This position requires strategic alignment with the North American and East Unit Strategic Plan and active participation in divisional operations.

You will create a culture of excellence and innovation, pursue business opportunities, manage and support staff, collaborate with other Group leads, and ensure effective resource utilization. Additionally, you will lead the hiring of new staff, participate in divisional operations, and provide visible leadership both internally and externally.

• Develop and implement, in coordination with the Water Market & Practice Leads, a growth plan for the South Division, initially focused on the Florida/Georgia marketplace.
• Understand and articulate client needs, working closely with Portfolio Managers, Strategic Market and Account Leads to pursue opportunities and drive business development.
• Directly engage with clients and regulatory agencies to establish and deepen relationships and improve brand visibility.
• Drive effective client engagement strategies from client contact approaches through all stages of business development, from identification and generation of project opportunities through capture, proposal preparation, interview and winning work.
• Drive Division water sales and bookings, mine existing contracts to maximize bookings; identify, track and capture new contract opportunities.
• Identify and help attract local area engineering talent to grow the business.
• Build Mott Mac Donald’s brand in the target area.
• Identify and build relationships with professional services firms for strategic alliances and partnerships across the South and NASA.
• Communicate effectively and efficiently with team members, clients, and contractors.
• Visibly participate in area trade and engineering societies and associations; promote staff engagement.
• Lead and implement our strategy and approach to effective participation in area conferences and professional events.
• Demonstrate behaviors that promote our Purpose and align with our PRIDE values including championing our Employee Value Proposition.
• Creating and maintaining a collaborative and respectful culture that…