Assistant Engineering Director

GAI Consultants is seeking a seasoned Assistant Technical Director to lead and deliver complex industrial water and wastewater design projects. This role is ideal for a dynamic professional with a passion for water infrastructure and a proven ability to manage multidisciplinary teams and client relationships.

Your next career move should challenge you, support you, and elevate you. If you're looking for a place where your expertise makes a real difference, this is it.

• Lead the planning, design, and construction services for industrial water and wastewater projects.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, and quality across multiple disciplines.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with both established and new clients.
• Develop and implement sales strategies for services.
• Mentor and develop a team of talented engineering professionals.
• Ensure technical excellence in advanced treatment facilities and process engineering.

• Demonstrated success in delivering water and wastewater treatment projects.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Deep technical knowledge of advanced treatment processes and facility design.

• Makes decisions with broad influence on activities of their organizations.
• Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing, and guiding projects and activities of major consequence.
• Provides leadership and develops and engages others to create a common vision for their projects and the organization.
• Assesses the acceptability of engineering economic analyses and the risks associated with solutions to complex engineering problems.
• Evaluates solutions to complex problems that involve multiple specialty areas of engineering.
• Assesses courses of resolution to ethical dilemmas in complicated situations.

• 20+

• B.S. or M.S. Engineering, master's degree or Equivalent Experience Preferred.

• Professional Engineer (P.E.) License, reciprocity in multiple states.

• Performs advisory or consulting work for the organization across broad project areas or within a specialized area with innovative/complex aspects.
• Assesses practices and requirements to achieve sustainable performance of complex engineering projects from a systems perspective.

• Oversees multiple large or multidiscipline project teams.
• Develops projects needed for accomplishing the objectives of the practice.
• Evaluates project management plans for complex engineering projects.
• Develops risk mitigation plans to address project risks.
• Evaluates effectiveness of leaders and teams.
• May manage projects, up to $250,000 in yearly value, without GAI President's approval, but is a small component of overall work.

• Receives general administrative direction.
• Develops organizational strategy for staff development through mentored experience, continuing education, and self-development.

• Negotiates critical and controversial issues with leadership.
• Represents the organization at important functions and conferences.

GAI offers an exceptional place to do meaningful work, grow your career, and make a real impact in communities nationwide. You'll join a collaborative, multidisciplinary firm bringing together engineering, planning, and environmental expertise to deliver projects across transportation, infrastructure, power, and energy markets. Working alongside accomplished colleagues, you'll help move projects from vision through construction, creating solutions that keep people moving, power essential systems, and support responsible development.

At GAI, you'll work in a team-driven environment grounded in…