Deputy Directors

Stormwater Deputy Director
10245 Old Columbia Road Columbia MD 21046

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**Skills:**
Do you have experience in System design
Yes
No

**Education:**
Do you have a Masters degree
Yes
No

**Location:**
10245 Old Columbia Road Columbia MD 21046

**Full job description**
**Description:**
**Who We Are**
Straughan Environmental Inc. is a successful rapidly growing womanowned business that provides highquality and costeffective consulting services to a wide variety of clients in the governmental and private sectors. Straughan is committed to advancing sustainable and resilient communities. We are experts in environmental planning design assessments and policy. Our staff consists of wildlife and wetlands scientists; geomorphologists and hydrologists civil and environmental engineers; inspectors; biologists and botanists; planners; cultural resource specialists; and GIS and CAD professionals. This combination of technical expertise and an understanding of policy make Straughan a highly competitive firm and a great place to advance your career.

**Job Purpose**
The Stormwater Deputy Director provides senior management support for projects business development and staff oversight. This role will report to the Engineering Director and is based at the home office.

**Duties & Responsibilities**
Lead major projects including maintaining schedule budget client relationships and managing project elements including tracking project milestones and prepare project manager reports; and supervising preparation of deliverables and ensuring quality control.
Manage multiple staff and mentor junior staff in technical administrative client management and business development skills.
Lead business development initiatives including proposal preparation and facilitating teaming.
Perform significant client contact and coordination with other consultants individuals must have demonstrated ability to work towards consensus on difficult issues.
Possess strong organizational skills including the ability to track and manage multiple tasks and priorities as well as the ability to communicate effectively in both speech and writing.
Assist in the development of the Engineering department fostering professional camaraderie identifying opportunities for growth/expansion and leading hiring efforts.
Attend and prepare for conferences with possible presentations.
Maintain significant professional qualifications.
Perform as acting Director when Director is out of the office as needed.

**Requirements:**
**Qualifications**
**Education:**
Bachelors or Masters degree in Civil/Environmental engineering

**Experience:**
Minimum of 10 years experience
Experience managing projects
Experience managing client relationships
Experience with proposal development
Experience with preparing task and labor estimates
Experience managing staff
Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with clients peers and other contractor organizations
Excellent organization and written communication skills
Active involvement in professional organizations
Stormwater management design
Erosion and sediment control design
Drainage system design experience
Hydrology & Hydraulics analyses
Dam Safety and Hazard analyses
Flood Studies
Flood Resiliency and Mitigation Strategy experience
Excellent computer skills are required including basic knowledge of MicroStation or AutoCAD; Proficient with Excel Word PowerPoint and Adobe Suite
Experience using engineering applicable engineering software such as Geopak InRoads HecRAS TR20 and TR55.

**Desired Qualifications**
Familiarity and project experience with municipalities in the MidAtlantic (e.g. Maryland District of Columbia Virginia Delaware Pennsylvania)
BlueGreen Infrastructure experience
Site design and LEED experience
Low impact development (LID) and environmental site design (ESD) in Maryland
Environmental Permitting (Forest Conservation Plans Wetland Delineations/Wetland Impact Plates Planting Plans and similar environmental documents) experience
Public Outreach experience

**Physical Requirements**
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by applicable law.
Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
Physically able to conduct scoping and construction site visits

Straughan is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin age protected veteran status or disability status. If you require alternative methods of application or screening you must approach the employer directly to request this as Indeed is not responsible for the employers application process.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime