C&S Companies · 2 hours ago
Senior Principal – Environmental Investigation and Remediation
Rochester, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$145K/yr - $160K/yr
20+ years expC&S Companies is a national planning, design, and construction firm dedicated to fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment. The Senior Principal in the Investigation and Remediation Department will oversee complex environmental projects, manage client relationships, and mentor technical staff while driving business growth and maintaining project performance.
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Responsibilities
Oversee large, complex environmental investigations, remediation projects, ecological studies, or other projects
Generate new work, manage client relationships, and help grow practice areas
Maintain responsibility for the performance of staff members that will consist of, but not be limited to engineers, scientists, and technicians
Guide and train junior staff and other managers
Motivate the team through commitment, strategy and personal connection
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with other groups at C&S
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients and subconsultants of C&S
Communicate regularly with leadership and the team through meetings and other means
Maintain a focus on staff learning, career development and diversity, equity and inclusion
Recruit new staff members
Uphold and model the core values of C&S
Provide vision for and support implementation and consistent use of standards
Lead successful sales/scoping efforts
Engage with internal teammates to develop integrated project opportunities
Provide direction to the marketing and technical team regarding go/no-go decisions and proposal preparation
Act as successful seller/doer
Serve as project manager or project principal on select projects
Prepare proposals, review technical reports, and provide senior-level sign-off
Maintain satisfactory project financial performance
Manage project budgets, prepare scopes, schedules, and financial reports
Maintain utilization metrics
Understand and leverage financial management systems
Review subcontractor invoices in a timely manner; invoice projects on time; work closely with accounting on outstanding accounts receivable; minimize write-offs; and maximize efficiency revenue
Qualification
Required
20+ years of environmental work experience, with a focus in investigation and remediation
Experience in public, non-profit, and/or private environmental work
Experience managing and organizing staff and projects
A Bachelor's Degree or acceptable advanced learning in environmental science or engineering
Aptitude and focus on operations/project management tools and systems
Commitment to high quality project delivery and have a vision for growth
Strong project management, technical writing, communication, problem-solving, and business development skills
Preferred
Leadership training through industry organization preferred
Company
C&S Companies
C&S Companies engages in planning, designing, engineering, and constructing services for transportation, infrastructure, facilities.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.15M2012-06-08Grant· $0.15M
Leadership Team
Michael Hotaling
Chief Executive Officer
John Spina
Senior Vice President
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