Associate Business Manager

Tucson Geo | Full-Time | In-Person Office Position

Alta Environmental & Infrastructure is one of Arizona’s fastest-growing engineering firms, with nearly 250 employees across the state. We’re 100% Arizona owned and managed, which means you’ll never feel like a number here. Our team delivers a full spectrum of services - civil engineering, surveying, geotechnical and materials testing, environmental, and EHS - giving you exposure to many paths and projects.

Alta is big enough to offer opportunities, and advanced technology - yet small enough that you’ll know your team, see your impact, and have leadership that knows you.

We’re proud to be a trusted partner to some of the nation’s largest corporations, developers, and public agencies - helping to build the future, while also protecting it through environmental stewardship and sustainable solutions.

The Associate Business Manager will serve as an operational partner to Alta’s Tucson leadership and project managers. This role is built for someone who likes numbers, processes, people, and problem-solving, and who wants to learn how a technical business actually runs from the inside. You will help maintain project data, support financial reviews, assist with invoicing and WIP, improve dashboards, coordinate with Accounting and HR, and help leaders make timely, data-informed decisions.

This is not a traditional administrative role. It is a growth-track business management position for someone who wants hands‑on exposure to project operations, profitability, forecasting, contracts, billing, team support, and the systems that keep a fast-moving engineering office performing well.

• Project operations:
  Coordinate project setup, maintain clean project data, monitor documentation, support project closeout, and help project managers stay organized and informed.
• Financial management:
  Review project budgets, fee structures, burn rates, WIP, profitability, labor utilization, revenue trends, and performance against budget.
• Invoicing and revenue support:
  Review invoices before submission, help resolve billing issues, identify change order opportunities, reduce aging WIP, and support timely revenue capture.
• Dashboards and reporting:
  Build and maintain customized dashboards, KPIs, and business analysis that help managers understand job profitability, margins by job type, return on assets, workload, and financial projections.
• Contracts and administration:
  Assist with contract review, purchase orders, subcontract agreements, certificates of insurance, vendor setup, billing requirements, and project records.
• People and culture support:
  Partner with leadership and HR to support onboarding, professional development plans, mentoring, performance review coordination, and a strong team culture.
• Process improvement:
  
  Identify workflow inefficiencies, standardize procedures, support company initiatives, and help reduce nonbillable leadership time.
• Business development support:
  Help maintain customer information, support client strategy, and assist with data and follow‑up that strengthen customer relationships.

We are looking for someone early in their business career who is curious, driven, organized, and ready to grow. The ideal candidate is comfortable working with details, asking good questions, learning new systems, and turning information into action. You do not need to know every system on day one, but you should be excited to master new tools, understand how projects make money, and become a trusted resource for managers and leadership.

• 3–6 years of related experience in business operations, finance, project administration, accounting support, HR coordination, construction/engineering administration, or a…