Design Partner Director

Brown and Caldwell (BC) is seeking a director to oversee the Southeast Area portfolio of Collaborative Delivery Enterprise (CDE) Design Partners Projects within our Municipal and Private Sector Markets. These projects encompass water treatment, wastewater treatment, water reuse systems, linear infrastructure, and heavy civil construction.

The primary objective for the Director Design Partner is to ensure that all projects within their portfolio achieve the established key performance indicators and metrics. In Design Partners Projects, BC serves as the design engineer of record or as a design consultant on collaborative delivery assignments.

Characteristics of the successful candidate include the proven ability to manage a portfolio of projects in multiple Municipal and Private Sector Markets, maintain, leverage and expand BC's exceptional client relationships, align with local and national resources, and collaborate with both contractor partners and BC teams. In Design Partners Projects, client means both Contractor and Owner.

The Design Partner role is accountable for completion of higher level complex collaborative delivery (PDB, FPDB, CMAR, EPC) municipal and industrial projects with high revenue accountability. The role works to plan, support execution, and oversee complex projects to have them completed on time, within budget, while meeting all quality standards, health and safety requirements, and Contractor-Partners and Owners satisfaction. The role works closely with leaders and cross‑functional teams to define project scope, set objectives, allocate resources, and develop detailed project plans.

The role monitors progress, risks and change, resolves high‑stakes challenges, and communicates with stakeholders to provide regular updates. The role leverages staff with a deep knowledge of industry, products, and services to identify and evaluate Contractors and Owners needs and leverage the project team to deliver the best technical solution within the schedule and budget constraints. This role is expected to operate independently while successfully mentoring project teams to deliver results on time and on budget for our clients, while progressively increasing revenue responsibility.

• Project team leadership expectations:
  • Set direction
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    Support defining objectives, decision‑making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team by providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve.
  • Communicate
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    Help establish effective communication methods for team stand‑ups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
  • Support Team Motivation
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    Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating success.
  • Establish Trust
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    Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
  • Create a safe environment
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    Support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
  • Embrace thought and experience diversity
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    Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
  • Develop team members
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    Support team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring.
• Execution of BC's project delivery requirements:
  • Scope
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    Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Develop clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
  • Schedule
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    Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide for timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures as needed.
  • Budget
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    Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set a project up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet financial plan.
  • Quality Management
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    Create, implement and monitor quality management plans and processes to…