Senior Power Generation Engineering Leader — Hybrid​/Remote

Job Category: Engineer

Requisition Number: SENIO
003906

• Posted :
  September 2, 2025
• Closed :
  December 9, 2025
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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GAI Consultants Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager 1 to be based out of Virginia in our Power Business Unit’s Power Generation Business Sector. GAI is an established and growing multi-discipline engineering firm with a growing presence in the Mid-Atlantic. 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 withEnergy, Institutional, Industrial, and Manufacturing clientsand 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 workindoorsin 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.
  
  Abilityto move between workstations and attend in-person meetings.
• Ability to lift and carry office materials or equipmentweighingup to 10-20 pounds, with or without assistance.
• Adequatehearingtoparticipatein 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…