[Remote] Asset Management, Senior Advisor - Water (US)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GHD is a global professional services company focused on creating sustainable outcomes in water, energy, and urbanization. They are seeking a Senior Advisor in Asset Management to lead their municipal water and wastewater asset management practice, overseeing strategy, program delivery, and business development.

Responsibilities

• Make authoritative recommendations that have a significant impact on the business over the short and long term. Recommendations could be technical or professional in nature
• Contribute strongly on a strategically significant area to a community of practice in a defined area of expertise or consulting, or lead on an area of expertise or consulting practice, to contribute to thought leadership and to develop innovative practice among colleagues
• Develop innovative approaches and write materials that are highly visible—such as slide decks for presentations on innovative solutions to top management, or bespoke and market-leading client reports—to complete the work of client team
• Deliver bespoke training, facilitate workshops with senior management, and provide advice and reports to address identified senior management issues. Manage the delivery quality of the work in own area of specialism to ensure maximum client satisfaction
• Design the project/program architecture, building on the initial proposal and the strategic client interviews to develop multiple solutions that meet the client's stated requirements and address complex client issues
• Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media
• Manage a portfolio of major projects in line with overall project management strategy
• Manage key client and customer relationships. Likely to involve using account teams to maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical, Chemical, or Industrial/Systems Engineering
• Professional Engineer licensure required
• 10+ years in municipal water/wastewater asset management consulting with progressive responsibility leading programs and teams
• Proven success implementing risk/LoS/lifecycle frameworks and translating results into prioritized capital & O&M plans for utilities
• Hands-on leadership with CMMS/EAM (Maximo, Infor, SAP PM, Cityworks) and integration with GIS/SCADA/B
• RCM, maintenance planning/scheduling, and reliability analytics (FMECA/criticality, PM optimization)
• Comfortability in facilitating councils/boards and cross-functional utility teams (operations, engineering, finance/treasury)
• Able and willing to travel 20-40% as projects require
• Master's degree in engineering, asset management, data analytics, or public administration a plus

Benefits

• 401K - Employees are eligible to participate on the first day of the month following 3 months of service
• Paid time off – Our PTO benefit is designed to provide eligible employees with a period of rest and relaxation, sick, and personal time throughout the year. PTO starts at 16 days per year and increases with years of service
• Holiday Pay - Holiday pay is provided for eligible employees. GHD observes 9 holidays per year. Holiday pay will be based on the regular set schedule for the employee
• Wellness Benefit- Regular full-term employees are eligible to participate in the wellness reimbursement program. GHD will reimburse 50% of the cost of the following to maximum of $250.00 reimbursement annually for such items as: Health club membership fees, home exercise equipment purchases, Bicycles, Race, run & marathon entrance fees, Smoking cessation programs, Weight loss programs (i.e.—Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig), Fitbits and Fitness Tracking devices
• Hybrid Work Model combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week

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