Technical Director (Renewables / Solid Waste / Future Energy)
GHD

Job Description

There's no pledge more important than the one we make to look after our environment, and we're committed to helping you do exactly that.

Join us as we strive to ensure a sustainable future for our communities and the world we live in.

Become part of our global network of skilled engineers, scientists, auditors, planners and environmental specialists, all working together to leave this world better than we found it.

Who are we looking for?

Our Northeast Environmental business is looking for a Technical Director to join their Waste Management team! In this role, you will lead and expand our solid waste and alternative waste processing teams across the U.S., with a focus on the Northeast region of the US. You'll shape strategic plans, identify client needs, and deliver cutting-edge solutions in areas like anaerobic digestion, renewable natural gas, hydrogen, and emerging technologies. You'll also support traditional waste management projects including landfill expansions, closures, and transfer stations.

This is your opportunity to build lasting client relationships, mentor rising talent, and collaborate with industry leaders to champion innovative project delivery!

Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:

• Recommendations: Provide integrated, long-term solutions and strategies for a significant area of responsibility, such as a function.
• Needs Assessment: Engage with senior business leaders to understand long-term strategic challenges.
• Solutions Analysis: Develop strategic solutions to long-term business needs by anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities.
• Improvement/Innovation: Initiate, formulate, and implement new business practices within a specific discipline while managing the development and/or delivery of a significant element of the organization's change management program.
• Knowledge Management System: Take responsibility for developing and delivering a key element of the organization's knowledge management system.
• Business Requirements Identification: Elicit the most-complex business requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.
• Feasibility Studies: Conduct the most-complex feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes, products, or business unit structure.
• Contract Management: Manage the delivery of a major part of the organization's contract management program while taking personal responsibility for a limited number of mission-critical contracts.
• Policy Development and Implementation: Develop functional or operational policies and help develop policy frameworks for area of responsibility or department. Take responsibility for creating underlying procedures and monitoring their implementation.
• Project Management: Manage a portfolio of major projects in line with overall project management strategy.
• Client & Customer Management (External): Manage key client and customer relationships. Likely to involve using account teams to maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty.

What you will bring to the team:

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science or related technical field of study
• Professional licensure preferred (PE or PG)
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the waste and alternative waste processing sector including business development, project management, and technical leadership
• Experience in organic waste processing and waste technologies
• Ability to engage and influence various stakeholders, including clients, partners, regulators, and internal teams

If you're interested in pursuing this opportunity, please submit your application below!

Salary range: $136,500 - $227,500 based on experience.

#LI-JK1

As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, national origin, sex (including same sex), sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, age, disability or handicap, citizenship status, service member status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

About Us

Take on some of the world's toughest challenges - with GHD supporting you every step of the way.
We'll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact.

See where your commitment could take you with GHD.

Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don't just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.

That's why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today.

See where your commitment could take you.
That's the #PowerOfCommitment

Who we are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.
The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It's what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity's most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.

---