Water/Wastewater Engineering Manager

What We're Looking For: 

Barge Design Solutions is looking for a Water/Wastewater Engineering Manager in both the Nashville and Knoxville offices. This role is a technical discipline manager or market practice area manager and coordinates work with Project Managers to assign technical resources on projects in a manner that positively impacts the business and employee experience. This role has responsibility to ensure direct reports' utilization and billable rates are acceptable.  Work at this level is characterized also by working on projects with some complex features or portions of larger conventional projects.  This role functions as a technical design lead on projects as well as the technical discipline or practice area manager in their role. 

Responsibilities:

• Manages a technical area, discipline, or market practice area facilitating a collaborative work environment and advancing initiatives that support a positive employee experience.
• Provides technical consulting on program objectives and requirements.
• As needed, provides technical input with proposals and Project Management Plans to provide accurate estimates for projects or programs. 
• Operates as a technical lead on portions of larger conventional projects or smaller complex projects. 
• Reviews operational procedures to ensure compliance with applicable policies and performance measures.
• Reviews and provides feedback to engineer's specifications, documents, drawings, plans, and reports.  May complete these items if needed.
• Designs a component, or process on a complex projects or designs complete a project, systems, or components on conventional projects. 
• Responsibility for completing project documents.
• Attends meetings and presents specific aspects of engineering assignments.
• Works to reduce department projects costs to drive competitive status.
• Develops and builds positive relationships with clients, direct reports, officials, contractors, and others.
• Supports and implements strategic and business planning activities.
• Manages a smaller group employee.
• This role will have talent management responsibilities for a group of individuals including, but not limited to selection, development, and coaching for improvement. 
• May recommend separations.
• This role mentors other professionals.

 Education & Experience Qualifications: 

Why join us? 

Barge Design Solutions, Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 550+ people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record’s Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great Place To Work®.

Our primary purpose for being in business is ultimately to create a better life by unleashing the potential of our people, clients and communities. This purpose is supported by our company’s core values because at the end of the day, Barge CARES:

• Collaborate – Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
  
• Authentic – Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
  
• Responsible – We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
• Excellence – We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
• Service – We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others.
  

We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled