Power and Utilities Leader

Job Description

At GHD we are committed to addressing the world’s biggest challenges in the areas of energy, water and communities. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals connected by over 200 offices, across five continents.

We are a global network of multi-disciplinary professionals providing clients with integrated solutions through engineering, environmental, design and construction expertise. Our future-focused, innovative approaches connect and support communities around the world, building resiliency and sustainability for generations to come.

The Power and Utilities Sector has been identified as a bold growth priority for GHD globally and will now be formalized as a client sector within the United States to align with the Enterprise Client Program (ECP) and broader market ambitions. This is an early-stage implementation, focused on standing up a new service offering, developing strategic client relationships, and building regional delivery capability across priority markets in Canada, the United States, and Chile.

In FY2026, our objective is to lay the foundation—through structure, leadership, and early client wins—that will enable GHD to become a leading provider of energy transition solutions in the Americas. The Power and Utilities Sector will include clients across clean power, grid modernization, energy storage, hydrogen and renewable fuels, and will overlap significantly with existing Oil & Gas clients—many of whom now identify as integrated energy producers.

These clients are actively transitioning their business models, investing in decarbonization, and seeking trusted technical partners who can guide them through the complexity of regulatory, technical, and capital planning challenges.

While our capability in environmental consulting has historically supported these clients, the new Power and Utilities Sector will focus on expanding GHD’s value chain participation, including front-end advisory, permitting, engineering, and eventually, program delivery through models such as EPCM, Owner’s Engineer, and IPD.

The Sector Leader will lead our client focus and growth strategy to align to our current Energy Implementation Plan that includes emphasis on:

• Build critical capability: prioritize Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Transmission & Distribution (T&D), Hydropower, Future Fuels, and Gas-to-Power.
• Engage early clients: launch cross-sell initiatives with utilities, public agencies, and Oil & Gas companies evolving into the energy transition space.
• Focus on targeted growth geographies, such as Ontario, Texas, and California, where client demand and GHD footprint already support acceleration.

• Development and execution of an approved client sector engagement plan.
• Direct the approach for specific client sector growth and achieve agreed upon stretch targets for winning work and building backlog within the sector.
• Responsible for the performance of the Key and Growth Clients within the sector, as well as the performance of the Relationship Managers (RMs) within the client sector.
• Lead the growth plan to develop Valued Clients into Key and Growth Clients (build the ECP client portfolio).
• Provide oversight to Relationship Managers (RMs) within client sector including goal setting and quarterly performance reviews.
• Identifying an overarching business plan and positioning to target clients within the client sector, including being an RM for certain clients.
• Developing or enhancing client relationships to generate leads, opportunities, teaming strategies, and winning work while influencing appropriate project delivery governance.
• Supporting portfolio Relationship Managers (RMs) at the bidding stages through pre-positioning, strategic bid planning, proposal development, and financial strategy.
• Initiating growth strategies and step-up initiatives applicable to relevant markets.
• Gathering sector intelligence in partnership with Capture Strategy teams to influence GHD's positioning.
• Partner with Technical Services to identify the key needs within the client sector and match those to key GHD…