Senior Project Engineer - Water Wastewater

GAI Consultants, Inc offers a role that emphasizes growth, collaboration, and impact for a Senior Project Engineer specializing in water and wastewater. This onsite position in Cranberry, PA provides opportunities to advance technical capabilities and project management proficiency across our Pennsylvania offices in Homestead, Cranberry, or Southpointe. You can expect competitive pay with recognition, comprehensive health and wellness coverage, a meaningful work-life balance, and avenues for ongoing growth, learning, and financial security.

Responsibilities

• Lead with creativity, foresight, and seasoned judgment to identify and tackle new engineering challenges.
• Prioritize tasks while balancing competing stakeholder directions to keep projects moving.
• Direct project activities with complex features, whether performing work personally or guiding others.
• Incorporate engineering economics and risk assessment into solutions for complex problems.
• Bridge multiple disciplines to deliver integrated solutions for intricate issues.
• Demonstrate leadership and mentoring capabilities to develop team talent.
• Develop standards and guidelines on a regular basis to support quality and consistency.
• Offer project leadership within your specialization practice area.
• Guide design efforts within projects and prepare design packages ready for bidding.
• Develop multiple design alternatives for complex projects, considering real-world requirements, constraints, community input, permitting, and regulatory factors.
• Apply advanced concepts to solve complex engineering problems.
• Manage large, multidisciplinary project teams to ensure coordinated delivery.
• Recommend staffing and budget resources required to execute projects.
• Oversee technical, legal, and financial aspects of entire projects.
• Consolidate these elements into a comprehensive project management plan for complex work.
• Define project objectives and requirements to align with client and regulatory expectations.
• Work under administrative supervision with assignments framed by broad objectives and limits.
• Implement staff development plans across the organization segment, focusing on technical, management, and leadership growth.
• Communicate clearly both verbally and in writing, including negotiation on critical issues.
• Show financial acumen and familiarity with legal considerations related to engineering practice.
• Build and maintain extensive networks with engineers, officials, and industry partners.

Requirements

• 16 years of related experience
• Bachelors or better in Engineering or related field
• Driver's License
• Professional Engineer