Director of Water Systems

5 days ago


Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority Full time
Job Description

The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority is seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to serve as the Administrator for the planning, design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System Project (ENMRWS) Project.

The ENMRWS Project is a $1B capital water infrastructure project spanning from Ute Reservoir to several Eastern New Mexico communities. Planning, design, and construction of the ENMRWS has begun and commissioning and start-up of the entire system is scheduled for 2031. ENMWUA will own and operate the system and deliver treated Ute Reservoir water to Clovis, Cannon AFB, Portales, Texico, and Elida.


The Administrator will be responsible for delivering fully integrated ENMWUA Project with an emphasis on meeting ENMWUA's mission, schedule, budget, quality, and safety objectives. This includes providing contract administration for project consultants, ENMWUA legal counsel, engineering, involvement in procurement, and O&M contracts, tracking budget, scope, and schedule for various tasks and activities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Deliver fully integrated ENMWUA Project with an emphasis on meeting ENMWUA's mission, schedule, budget, quality, and safety objectives.
  • Provide contract administration for project consultants, ENMWUA legal counsel, engineering, involvement in procurement, and O&M contracts.
  • Track budget, scope, and schedule for various tasks and activities.
  • Serve as the primary contact during construction.

Additional Responsibilities

  • Oversee federal, state, and local project funding allocation and tracking, reporting, design, and construction spend downs.
  • Develop funding and project updates including presentations to USBR, State of New Mexico, ENMWUA Board, and ENMWUA Member Communities.
  • Provide leadership guidance on cost management issues.
  • Conduct quarterly and monthly reviews of ENMWUA staffing resources.
  • Develop and update a training program for ENMWUA employees.
  • Coordinate and direct Operation and Maintenance (O&M) activities of the system.
  • Maintain and track O&M budgets.
  • Coordinate with the Engineer and Assist ENMWUA Chief Procurement Officer during the bidding process of various projects.
  • Review, comment, and approve consultant invoices, progress reports, schedules, and spending curves.
  • Oversee the project control functions including scope, scheduling, budget, risk, information management, reporting, document management, and project administration.

Requirements

  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Ability to effectively communicate and brief property owners, stakeholders, community members, engineers, consultants, contractors, and legal counsel.
  • Good people management skills: team-oriented with the ability to work closely with staff and consultants.
  • Ability to delegate, motivate, and empower individuals and teams.
  • Sound business acumen with an understanding of budgets, risk management, and project controls.
  • Ability to exercise sound technical and financial judgment and decision-making in complex situations.
  • Good organizational skills.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality.
  • Have strong data analysis and technical problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated experience in a management position within a similar organization.
  • Problem solver experienced with clearly identifying problems, evaluating alternative solutions, assessing risks, and making sound recommendations to decision-makers.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with a diverse project team with demanding schedule, budgetary, safety, quality, and coordination objectives.
  • Ability to set priorities that support the ENMWUA project objectives.
  • Experience working as a key member of an integrated project team including ENMWUA staff and providing direction to project consultants, accountants, engineers, and legal counsel.
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate information, identify problem trends, and develop and implement action plans to improve overall project performance.
  • Demonstrated construction experience on a wide range of water projects including planning construction logistics for multiple, concurrent projects.
  • Ability to effectively manage team members and consultants and build a collaborative environment that promotes the achievement of common objectives.
  • Successful experience working with a large and diverse group of stakeholders and reconciling differences is desirable.
  • Experience developing policies and procedures, budgets, various management plans, and plans.
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate information, identify problem trends, and develop and implement action plans to improve overall performance.
  • Demonstrated understanding of assets, capital programming, project controls, project delivery, scheduling, cost control, and other key disciplines necessary to deliver a capital improvement project.
  • Ability to develop long-term plans (12-24 months) while managing daily operations and managing resources to meet short-term objectives.
  • Must be a self-starter, creative, and able to work closely with ENMWUA staff, consultants, engineers, contractors, stakeholders, and ENMWUA Member Communities.
  • Experience in public works, operations, and/or project, design, and construction management functions on large capital projects, or similar years of experience working in similar roles in the public works, consulting, or operations sectors.
  • Four-year college degree in Public Management, Construction Engineering Management, Construction Management, or Management field preferred.

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