Asset Management, Team Lead - Water

Overview

To solve complex challenges, you need to challenge the status‑quo. At GHD Advisory we are invested in creating sustainable commercial outcomes with clients driving change in water, energy and urbanization. Join a team committed to solving complex challenges across the value chain, from capital deployment to asset management, enabling resilience, growth and sustainability. Together, we’ll help create a future for generations to come.

This position can be based in most US‑based locations. Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in‑office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.

• Client & Project Leadership:
  Serve as the account and engagement lead for city, county, and regional utilities—shaping roadmaps for levels of service, risk, lifecycle and cost optimization, and capital program alignment. Direct programs across the asset management lifecycle, including asset data and criticality, condition/RUL modeling, risk registers, O&M/RCM optimization, CIP prioritization, resilience and climate adaptation, and performance management. Oversee CMMS/EAM delivery (IBM Maximo, Infor, SAP, Cityworks), guiding requirements, configuration, data governance, and change management.
• Practice Building:
  Grow a high‑performing team and mentor project managers and analysts in IAM/GFMAM competencies and ISO‑aligned delivery methods. Develop playbooks and methodologies for risk‑based decision making, lifecycle costing, and reliability strategies.
• Business Development:
  Own pipeline creation and capture—leading positioning, solutioning, scoping, pricing, and proposal development for municipal asset management, O&M optimization, and digital water pursuits. Represent GHD at industry forums such as AWWA, WEF, and IAM, and author thought leadership that shapes the future of water infrastructure.
• Data Collection and Analysis:
  Make authoritative recommendations that have a significant impact on the business over the short and long term.
• Community of Practice Management:
  Contribute strongly on a strategically significant area to a community of practice in a defined area of expertise or consulting, or lead on an area of expertise or consulting practice, to contribute to thought leadership and to develop innovative practice among colleagues.
• Consulting Project Content Development:
  Develop innovative approaches and write materials that are highly visible—such as slide decks for presentations on innovative solutions to top management or bespoke and market‑leading client reports—to complete the work of client team.
• Consulting Project Delivery:
  Deliver bespoke training, facilitate workshops with senior management, and provide advice and reports to address identified senior management issues. Manage the delivery quality of the work in own area of specialism to ensure maximum client satisfaction.
• Consulting Project/Program Design:
  Design the project/program architecture, building on the initial proposal and the strategic client interviews to develop multiple solutions that meet the client’s stated requirements and address complex client issues.
• Personal Capability Building:
  Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in‑depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical, Chemical, or Industrial/Systems Engineering (Master’s degree in engineering, asset management, data analytics, or public administration a plus)
• Professional Engineer licensure required
• 10+…