WE’RE GROWING AND DESIGNING OUR FUTURE TOGETHER

We are experiencing tremendous growth and are seeking passionate team members who are ready to make an impact! As an employee-owned company, we prioritize enhancing the lives of our clients, communities, and employees. Your role here directly contributes to the quality of service we deliver. You’ll have opportunities to grow your skills and work with others in a collaborative environment. Most of our work involves helping smaller, rural communities, including many tribal clients, overcome a myriad of challenges to deliver safe drinking water. The projects are rewarding, unique, and challenging.
As a senior-level team member at SMA, you will have the opportunity to not only contribute to high-profile projects but also to shape the direction of our organization. Here, your experience will be valued, your leadership will be elevated, and your expertise will inspire future generations of engineers and professionals.

SUMMARY:

The Senior Engineer (SR) I-II is responsible for planning, designing and directing projects locally and/or remotely on a corporate and/or local level. The SR I-II position requires the ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, design plans and governmental regulations as well as the ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. These abilities must also translate into the effective presentation of information and response to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public. The SR I-II position typically has a balanced exposure internally (employees) and externally (clients/regulators), but also can be focused on an area of specific technical discipline.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in appropriate engineering or science.
• Minimum ten years of experience post-graduation.
• Minimum two years of experience in staff management.
• Professional/Occupational licensure required.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prepare and monitor project budgets; has overall responsibility for the profitability of assigned projects.
• Responsible for monitoring and managing work-in-process, accurate and timely client billings, outstanding accounts receivable and collection efforts on projects.
• Responsible for project and/or office technical group(s) schedules and timely completion of projects.
• Serve as a senior project design specialist on complex projects of any size and as a designated client contact or client manager.
• Supervise and monitor client relationship strategies; is the primary client contact for assigned clients.
• Coordinate and review pricing, estimating, scoping and marketing strategies for proposed projects of any size or fee.
• In coordination with TS Director/Manager, develop and review contract agreements for assigned projects o Executes agreements with value-limited signatory authority.
• Prepare forecast of workload for assigned staff.
• Develop probable construction cost estimates for complex projects within assigned TS.
• Attend client meetings, day or night; ability to complete overnight travel unassisted, occasionally extending several consecutive nights.
• Analyze reports, maps, drawings, blueprints, tests and/or aerial photographs for quality assurance and to plan and/or design projects.
• May direct and supervise other employee activities.
• Prepare or direct preparation and modification of reports, specifications, plans, construction schedules, environmental impact studies and/or designs for project.
• May use computer assisted engineering, technical and/or design software and equipment to prepare simple to complex engineering, analysis and design documents.
• Visit construction and/or investigation site(s) to monitor progress and other duties per the contract documents as the registered professional of record.
• Under the direction of the MS Director/Manager, manage significant marketing responsibilities with clients to obtain work for the firm.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate