Wastewater Infrastructure Planning Business Leader - Toronto

Why Black and Veatch

Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1.

Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life. At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use.

The Opportunity

Black & Veatch has an exciting opportunity for a Wastewater Infrastructure Planning Business Leader based in Toronto. In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Provide leadership for our wastewater collection planning business in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond, including supporting projects and opportunities in the USA.
• Provide technical solutions and differentiation for the Collection System Planning team focused on wastewater infrastructure planning.
• Evaluation of wastewater system capacity, condition, resilience, and operating efficiency.
• Analysis and projections of wastewater flows.
• Use of risk-based assessments to develop and prioritize capital improvement programs.
• Integration of condition assessment and asset management data into system master planning and to directly support replacement & renewal planning.
• Use of cutting-edge hydraulic modeling, GIS, asset management, and data visualization software to help solve client issues.
• Provide project execution and technical leadership support for our planning and asset management projects.
• Provide technical leadership to support marketing and business development in the GTA and beyond.
• Work closely with Client Directors to leverage existing and build new relationships with clients and decision makers in the GTA and beyond.
• Lead and/or support pursuit, proposal, and project interview activities.

This job posting is for establishing a newly created position.

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The Team

As an employee-owned, global leader in building critical infrastructure in the energy, water, telecommunications and government services markets, Black & Veatch has a long-standing reputation for providing world-class service to our clients.

Our North American Planning & Asset Management business has seen consistent growth driven by our clients’ needs to address challenges stemming from population growth, aging infrastructure, basement flooding, system reliability and resilience concerns, the need to improve operational efficiency, and the use of “big data” to help guide decision making. This position represents a strategic business opportunity for Black & Veatch’s Distribution & Collection System Planning team to help the company grow its market share by providing world-class wastewater infrastructure planning services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with technical and thought leadership surrounding wastewater infrastructure systems.
• GTA experience in client-facing roles and with GTA Wastewater systems.
• 8+ years of infrastructure assessment experience including hydraulic modeling, master planning, condition assessment, asset management, and data analysis.
• Experience managing planning project, leading technical tasks and project teams, and executing wastewater collection system studies and assessments that involve system operations modeling, optimization techniques, risk & resiliency evaluations, capital and life-cycle cost analyses, CIP prioritization.
• Proficient with data analyses, analytics, and visualization.
• Proficient with report writing and PowerPoint presentations.
• Experience in developing proposals and leading technical discussions during client interviews/projects.
• Experience and/or familiarity with Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and software (i.e. ArcGIS).
• Capable in MSWord, MSExcel, PowerPoint.
• Familiarity of dynamic data visualization software such as PowerBI.
• Experience and/or familiarity with hydraulic modeling software such as:
  
  • InfoWorks ICM
  • SewerGems
  • EPASWMM
  • PCSWMM

Minimum Qualifications

Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing or equivalent experience in Engineering work.

Minimum of 5 years related work experience.

All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Certifications

Holds an active engineering registration or licensure to support engineer of record (EOR) requirements for BV projects in applicable countries, and supports where necessary.

Work Environment and Schedule

• This position would require working in a typical office environment. The position may entail prolonged periods of sitting and computer use, and the professional would ideally be able to maintain focus and attention to detail throughout the workday. The position may also be require physical tasks during site visits, including crouching, grasping, and standing/walking for extended periods of time.
• Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.
• This opportunity will be based out of our Toronto, Ontario office.

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