Asset Retirement Project Lead
$160,000–$175,000 year
On-siteHouston, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Lead the refinement of the US Central Asset Transition Market Strategy and build a balanced Asset Transition team aligned with broader organizational goals. Manage project delivery using appropriate methodologies, define visions, and coordinate actions across large or multiple small-to-medium teams. Oversee risk identification, issue resolution, and benefit realization through baseline assessments and post-implementation analyses. Develop stakeholder engagement plans, negotiate deliverables, and drive innovation through multistakeholder solutions and idea generation platforms. Communicate strategy implementation to motivate team commitment to local business goals while maintaining personal capability through ongoing education and professional accreditation.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree Environmental Science, Engineering, or related field
- Wide and deep experience providing expert competence (Over 10 years to 15 years)
- Federal/state/local environmental regulatory and H&S standard knowledge
- Team building skills
- Existing relationships with clients, prospects, and regulators
- Self-motivated professional
- Excellent technical skills
- Curious
- Stimulated by fresh thinking
- Desire to shape communities in new, positive ways
- Creativity and innovation
- Portfolio Management: Plan and manage the delivery of projects within an area of professional expertise, using an appropriate project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are achieved
- Project Team Management: Lead large project teams (or multiple small- to medium-sized teams); define the project vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; coordinate team actions across project activities; coordinate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring
- Project Risk and Issue Management: Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating these matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns
- Project Benefit Realization: Deliver baseline assessments and post-implementation analyses to evaluate and track the realization of business benefits
- Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units, such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons
- Leadership and Direction: Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals
- Personal Capability Building: Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media
- Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders, to develop positive stakeholder relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice
- Project Scope Definition: Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables
- Based out of Houston, TX, Baton Rouge, LA, and Chicago, IL
Desired Qualifications
- Positive client and colleague feedback (including functional reporting relationships) on collaboration and One GHD activities
- Specific qualitative nuances and goals tracked to individual personal development objectives
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