National Specialty Leader – Drinking Water Filtration

Brown and Caldwell (BC) has an exciting opportunity to join our Drinking Water Practice as a National Specialty Leader in Filtration. The successful candidate will assist in growing BC’s Drinking Water Practice and lead teams to deliver exceptional service to our municipal and private-sector clients. In this role, you will support business development, lead execution of high-quality solutions, develop talent, and create and enforce standards to drive our technical differentiation from that of our competitors in the technical areas of rapid media filtration, granular activated carbon adsorption, ion exchange processes, and subordinate facilities.

Who you are:

• You have demonstrated technical expertise in filtration processes.
• You consistently demonstrate strong leadership, coaching, and communication skills.
• You excel in strategy development, including business analysis, problem solving, consensus building, and talent development.
• You are a results-oriented leader with the ability to bring cross-functional partners together and quickly shift course as necessary to achieve goals.
• You are confident, yet humble and can effectively consult and partner with multiple teams and varying needs.

What you will do:

Project Delivery Quality and Efficiency

• Ensure relevant Subject Matter Specialists (SMS) engage effectively with project teams to apply consistent technical approaches, risk management, and quality delivery. 
• On strategic and complex projects, engage directly with delivery team throughout project life cycle, including early concept development, solution selection, project design, execution, and risk mitigation.
• Oversee prioritization and development of national technical standards (guidelines, best practices, tools, content), governance, and consistent usage by practice members for efficient, high-quality execution of specialty elements. 
• Support national sharing of resources to match top technical talent with strategic projects, working closely with national and regional practice leaders - getting the “right people” on the “right projects” through collaboration with Regional Practice Leaders.

Client Development and Sales

• In close association with Client Service Teams (CSTs), assume Client-facing Technical Leadership roles with strategic clients, including trusted advisor for clients and CSTs. 
• Directly engage with clients to build relationships, assess needs, and develop technical solutions.   
• Bring technical insights from engagement with client peers/network.
• Understand our competition in terms of strategic direction of their approach to the specialty area, and their technical focus, staff, strengths, and weaknesses. Equip business units with winning technical strategies.

Knowledge & Technical Standards

• Create efficient, high-quality practice execution through …