Job Description

What We're Looking For:

The Environmental Market Leader provides strategic leadership for Barge Design Solutions' Environmental practice by driving market growth, expanding client relationships, and delivering exceptional project performance. This role is responsible for developing and executing market strategies, leading high-performing multidisciplinary teams, and positioning Barge as a trusted environmental consulting partner across public and private sectors.

Serving as both a business leader and technical advisor, the Environmental Market Leader partners with clients to solve complex environmental challenges while fostering innovation, operational excellence, and sustainable growth. This individual is accountable for business development, financial performance, talent development, and the successful delivery of environmental services including natural resources, environmental permitting and compliance, ecological services, remediation, restoration, and environmental planning.

Through visionary leadership, collaboration, and a strong client focus, the Environmental Market Leader will strengthen Barge's market presence, develop strategic growth opportunities, and build a culture of technical excellence that delivers lasting value for our clients, employees, and communities.

Responsibilities

• Strategic
  Leadership & Growth
• Define and execute the division’s strategic vision
• Position the division to pursue and win larger, more
  complex environmental and programmatic work
• Identify emerging market opportunities and expand
  service offerings
• Collaborate with staff and firm leadership on growth
  initiatives
• Business
  Development & Client Leadership
• Lead client development efforts across key markets
  (energy, DOTs, government, private clients)
• Serve as a senior relationship manager for key
  accounts
• Actively pursue and secure new work, including
  leveraging existing client relationships
• Contribute to proposals, capture strategies, and
  large pursuits
• Drive contract backlog and revenue growth for the
  division
• Financial
  & Operational Management
• Accountable for division performance including:
• Revenue and contracts secured
• Profitability and project
  performance
• Provide oversight of project delivery to ensure
  quality, efficiency, and client satisfaction
• Support development of project scopes, fees, and
  execution strategies
• Establish and maintain performance metrics and
  accountability
• People
  Leadership
• Lead, develop, and mentor a team of environmental
  professionals and leaders
• Oversee leadership roles within the division
• Build a high-performing, engaged, and collaborative
  team culture
• Drive talent development, succession planning, and
  recruitment
• Make personnel decisions including hiring,
  development, and performance managemen t

Education & Experience Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science,
  Engineering, or related field
• Minimum 10+ years of progressive experience in
  environmental consulting
• Demonstrated experience in a leadership role such as
  Market Leader, Practice Leader, or similar
• Professional licensure or registration as applicable
• Experience leading multidisciplinary environmental
  teams
• Advanced business, leadership, or management training

Why join us?

Barge Design Solutions,
Inc.,
is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary
practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 650+ people strong and
serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record’s Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great
Place To Work®.

Our primary purpose for being in business is ultimately to create a better life by unleashing the potential of our people, clients and communities. This purpose is supported by our company’s core values because at the end of the day, Barge CARES:

• Collaborate – Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
  
• Authentic – Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
  
• Responsible – We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
• Excellence – We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
• Service – We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others.
  

We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Agency Submissions

No unsolicited agency submissions. Barge
Design Solutions does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or
staffing agencies. Any unsolicited resume becomes the property of Barge Design
Solutions, and no fee will be paid for resulting hires. Only agencies with a
signed agreement are authorized to submit candidates.