Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CDM Smith provides environmental services and digital solutions through multidisciplinary teams. The Environmental Data Analytics Discipline Leader will expand the firm’s environmental analytics capabilities, evaluate technologies, support innovation and intellectual property investments, and collaborate on technical sales, marketing, and business development. The role also coordinates multidisciplinary teams and develops environmental data analytics practitioners and market opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Assisting CDM Smith’s Digital teams in conducting evaluations of available data analytics technologies and platforms to analyze a wide range of environmental data across various applications (e.g., water quality assessments, remedial investigations, remedial actions, and operations and maintenance of treatment systems)
- Work with the firm’s sales teams and with CDM Smith’s digital subsidiary, Trinnex (as applicable), on technical sales, design, and delivery of environmental data analytics solutions tailored for environmental analysis-related needs
- Collaborate with local, national, and international technical teams
- Work across multiple technical practice areas to leverage environmental data analytics research and the firm’s development activities, thereby expanding and enhancing the firm’s capabilities in environmental services
- Support marketing and business development initiatives related to environmental data analytics
- Collaborate and compile ideas: Engage with discipline leaders, subject matter experts (SMEs), and the environmental data analytics group to gather ideas and assess needs for environmental data analytics innovation and more
- Coordinate efforts with multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, designers, draftsmen, and technicians to deliver effective environmental solutions to CDM Smith’s clients
- Establish processes: Develop processes to evaluate ideas and initiatives for potential innovation investment at the firm aimed at developing analytics tools and technologies
- Manage potential intellectual property (IP) and research and development (R&D) investments: Review current environmental data analytics ideas, identify potential IP for protection, prioritize potential R&D investments, and assist with connecting these to the firm’s processes and groups overseeing IP protection, innovation, and digital investment
- Work with and grow environmental data analytics practitioners who have the desire or aptitude to provide environmental services for a variety of clients at the firm
- Navigate the competitive landscape and help keep CDM Smith at the forefront of the environmental data analytics market in the environmental sector
- Market engagement: Identify conferences, working groups, and other activities to enhance technical visibility and promote our capabilities to clients
- Track business opportunities and clients: Identify and monitor business opportunities and client relationships for environmental data analytics services
Skills
- Strong knowledge of corporate governance practices, organization design principles, accounting principles, finance, supply chain management, and organization management
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to understand highly complex technical, professional and business materials
- Bachelor's degree
- 12 years of related experience
- Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands
- Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
- An appropriate and valid driver's license is required
- Environmental Expertise: Bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, chemical engineering, science or related discipline
- Professional engineering (PE) license or registration as a Licensed Professional Geologist or professional scientist registration/certification or Master's degree in science or related discipline
- Must have extensive understanding of environmental analytics
- Statistical Analysis Proficiency: Proficient in the mathematical principals of data analytics and the interpretation of environmental data
- Familiarity with Python or R a plus
- IP Management: Experience in managing intellectual property
- Educational Interest: An interest in teaching and developing education and advancement opportunities for mid- and junior-level staff
- Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands
- 10 years of related experience
Benefits
- Hybrid work options may be considered for successful candidate
- We provide career opportunities that span a variety of disciplines and geographic locations
- Supporting their efforts to learn and grow
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