Chief of Staff & Operations, Strategic Advisory & Lifecycle Resiliency Services Job Details | Black & Veatch Family of Companies

Black & Veatch - Fort Worth, TX

Part-time,Full-time - Senior

Fort Worth, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Chief of Staff & Operations for Strategic Advisory & Lifecycle Resiliency Services (SALRS) at Black & Veatch serves as an executive advisor to the President, focusing on operational excellence and driving strategic objectives. This role is pivotal in enhancing the effectiveness of the SALRS organization, ensuring best-in-class leadership, and facilitating communication and decision-making processes. The Chief of Staff will also play a key role in building partnerships across the business and supporting the President in various operational and strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Execute operational excellence with a focus on driving key strategic objectives including sales performance to goals.
• Expand the bandwidth and effectiveness of the President and ensure that the SALRS organization is highly effective.
• Support and facilitate the SALRS Leadership Team objectives.
• Ensure that SALRS leadership is best in class, with defined and effective processes and governance.
• Build partnerships across the business and advocate for business objectives and strategy.
• Anticipate challenges that require diplomacy and immediate attention.
• Provide leadership that influences better time management and flow of information to and from the SALRS President.
• Synthesize key insights and generate tangible actions from meetings to ensure commitments result in outcomes.
• Engage productively in business discussions and cultivate partnering relationships with management and professionals.
• Consult and provide solutions related to workforce and organizational matters in partnership with HR.
• Support the SALRS President in preparation of Executive Leadership Team presentations.
• Develop relationships and coordinate with Chief of Staffs in various sectors and regions.
• Work closely with SALRS Leadership Team and HR Partner to align professional development for emerging leaders.
• Anticipate workforce needs and develop forward-thinking solutions based on workforce analytics.
• Support leaders in chartering, building, and maintaining high performing teams.
• Drive a monthly cadence on the review, insights, and reporting of all SALRS key activities, KPIs, and planned deliverables.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
• Client services experience.
• 12-15+ years of business experience progressing through leadership roles and assignments that provide broad multi-functional capability.

Nice-to-haves

• Consulting, PM or commercial leadership role experience.
• Supervisory experience or oversight of project teams.
• Degree in business, economics, finance or engineering preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 401K match
• Benefits starting day 1
• Flexible work schedules
• Paid vacation and holiday time
• Sick time and dependent sick time
• Adoption reimbursement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vendor discounts
• Employment referral program
• AD&D insurance
• Pre-taxed accounts
• Voluntary legal plan
• Performance-based bonus program
• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)