Senior Project; Technical Manager ; Power Generation

GAI Consultants Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Manager (Power Generation) to be based out of Virginia in our Power Business Unit's Power Generation Business Sector. GAI is an established and growing multi-discipline engineering firm with a growing presence in the Mid-Atlantic. GAI's Power Business Unit focuses on developing and supporting Energy, Institutional, Industrial, and Manufacturing clients. An ideal candidate's opportunities would include developing client and business relationships and providing staff management and civil engineering expertise across a diverse range of multi-discipline design and construction projects.

In addition to GAI's generous Employer 401K Plan match, this position is eligible for GAI's flexible hybrid and/or remote work schedules.

• Building solid relationships with Energy, Institutional, Industrial, and Manufacturing clients and internal clients within GAI's Business Sectors.
• Leading business development pursuits and developing statements of qualifications and proposed project scopes of work, schedules, budgets, and fees.
• Developing a solid understanding of and marketing the services GAI performs.
• Collaborating, developing, and executing a business plan.
• Serving as a primary seller/doer for the Power Generation Business Sector throughout the Mid-Atlantic.
• Providing design, management, and technical direction and oversight associated with civil components on multi-discipline design and construction projects.
• Leading teams to successfully execute all assigned projects.
• Working with Accounting staff to monitor and control project costs and billings to meet budgeted profit.

• Develops standards and guidelines.
• Leads a program in the organization in their area of specialization.
• Develops appropriate design alternatives for complex engineering projects that consider realistic requirements, constraints, community input, permitting, and other regulatory constraints.
• Integrates advanced concepts, including sustainability, to solve complex problems.

• Oversees technical, legal, and financial issues of an entire program.
• Recommends facilities, personnel, and funds required to carry out programs.
• Integrates these components into a complete project management plan for a complex engineering project.
• Implements effective teamwork, leadership, and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion principles into solutions for engineering problems.
• Determines program objectives and requirements.
• Develops organizational policies and procedures.

• Uses creativity, foresight, and mature judgment to anticipate and solve new problems.
• Makes authoritative decisions and recommendations that impact organizational activities and culture.
• Sets priorities and reconciles directions from competing interests.
• Leads programs with complex features with work performed directly, or by others.
• Integrates engineering economics and risk analysis into the solutions of complex engineering problems.
• Integrates solutions to complex problems across specialty areas.
• Demonstrates ethical leadership, behavior, and decision making.

• Possesses exceptional oral and written communication skills, including negotiation of critical issues.
• Integrates different forms of effective and persuasive communication to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrates financial acumen and familiarity with legal issues related to engineering practice.
• Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with key engineers and officials, or other organizations and companies.
• Promotes justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion within their organizational segment.
• Communications are characterized as strategic interactions between stakeholders with mutual awareness and interests.

• Supervises a major organizational segment or several teams.
• Receives administrative supervision with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
• Implements staff development plans within their organizational segment, including technical, management, and leadership skills.
• Advocates for and establishes professional…