
Design Manager - Heavy Civil Water Infrastructure Projects
- Las Vegas, NV
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support a water agency in southern Nevada serving more than 2.2 million residents as the wholesale water provider.
- Responsible for water treatment and delivery, as well as acquiring and managing long-term water resources throughout southern Nevada.
- You will be expected to support the design process through the projects, monitoring the technical aspects of the project, coordinate with contractors and owners and perform design management functions through construction.
- Additional responsibilities include making complex engineering computations and check, review and design plans and specifications for a wide variety of waterworks capital projects
- Conduct independent project engineering
- Manage contracted engineering firms
- Identify needs and assignments and exercise judgment in carrying them out;
- Communicate clearly and concisely, orally and in writing
- Supervise, train and evaluate professional and technical subordinates.
- Ability to utilize hydraulic modeling, spreadsheet and word processing applications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with Nevada PE License.
- 15 years or more experience including design management experience of a large team, as well as project management delivery experience on public water infrastructure projects (pumping stations, pipelines, tunnels, reservoirs).
- Senior level technical experience associated with the design of potable water systems, including hydraulic modeling, pump selections, mechanics of materials, technical specifications, and potable water standards.
- Knowledge of modern methods and techniques used in the design and construction of a wide variety of waterworks capital projects, including surveying, hydraulics, mechanics and stress analysis
- Knowledge of modern developments, current literature, and sources of information regarding the assigned area of engineering and/or water resources
- Knowledge of applicable laws and regulatory codes related to development and construction of waterworks infrastructure
- Demonstrated experience on similar water/wastewater capital projects
- Proven experience successfully managing design teams.
- Strong written and oral communication skills