Business Development Lead, WaterWastewater Construction

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

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Role description:

Arcadis seeks a Business Development Lead for Californias Water/Wastewater Construction group with 20 or more years experience to join our Water Construction Management team in our San Francisco CA office.

Arcadis has significantly grown its municipal water team and construction management services in Northern California over the past few years. Continuing the path of growth this position offers an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated individual to join our local team. The Business Development Lead with the support of a strong nationally recognized technical staff will utilize their expertise and technical knowledge of the water and wastewater construction market along with a proven reputation within Northern California to successfully execute projects to help build and grow our practice.

Role accountabilities:

As the Business Development Lead for Californias Water/Wastewater Construction group you will play a key part in driving marketing efforts recruiting top talent and leading teams to deliver winning proposals and impactful presentations.

You will provide hands-on leadership throughout all phases of construction projects overseeing daily activities managing contracts and ensuring quality assurance and control. Regular client updates and progress reporting will be a core part of your responsibilities. Youll also monitor contractor performance site safety and the work of subcontractors and suppliers proactively communicating any changes or deviations from plan.

This role involves managing scopes of work and budgets and working closely with project and program managers to ensure engineering projects are delivered on time within budget and to client expectations. Youll supervise and mentor junior technical staff fostering their development and ensuring high standards of work.

Strong communication skills are essential as youll lead meetings on project progress safety scheduling and contract administration with clients agencies and community stakeholders. Youll also recommend improvements to project costs budgets and schedules using tools such as Primavera or MS Project. Additionally youll serve as a liaison to design staff helping to gather field information and respond to RFIs correspondence and shop drawing reviews.

Key Attributes:

You will bring proven excellence in client management and project delivery backed by strong leadership experience and effective communication skills. You will need to be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite with particular expertise in Word Excel and PowerPoint which you will use regularly to support project documentation analysis and presentations.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications

• 20 years total experience with a minimum of 10 years of construction experience on water wastewater plants & facilities projects as a Resident Engineer or Construction Manager.
• Bachelors degree in engineering or construction.
• California PE
• Experience managing construction budgets and schedules including estimating and change order negotiating.

Preferred Qualifications

• 20 years of construction experience specifically related to water or wastewater facilities with a minimum of 10 years experience on projects as a Resident Engineer or Construction Manager on a $50 million water/wastewater project.
• Masters degree in Engineering Construction or a BS in these fields and an MBA.
• In addition to the PE a CCM is also highly desired.
• Active participation in a regional or national professional association.
• Previous experience successfully leading project pursuits include both developing proposal approaches and overseeing making presentations to major clients and agencies.

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.

Together we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women minorities people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race creed color religion national origin sex age disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity citizenship status disability veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical dental and vision EAP 401K STD LTD AD&D life insurance paid parental leave reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per salary range for this position is $227866 - $299074. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.

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