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Project Management Consultant jobs at GHD span infrastructure, environment, and engineering sectors, where complex multi-stakeholder projects demand both technical depth and delivery experience. GHD has a track record of sponsoring international talent for this function, covering several of the most common work visa pathways.
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To solve complex challenges, you need to challenge the status-quo. At GHD Advisory we are invested in creating sustainable commercial outcomes with clients driving change in water, energy and urbanization. Join a team committed to solving complex challenges across the value chain, from capital deployment to asset management, enabling resilience, growth and sustainability. Together, we’ll help create a future for generations to come.
Who are we looking for?
GHD is seeking an Asset Management, Team Lead - Water (US) to grow and deliver our municipal water and wastewater asset management practice. In this pivotal role, you will set the strategy, win work, and lead multi-disciplinary teams delivering programs that align with ISO 55000 principles, AWWA utility management/AM standards, and US best practices (EPA). As a leader in Client & Project Leadership, you’ll serve as the account and engagement lead for city, county, and regional utilities—shaping roadmaps for levels of service, risk, lifecycle and cost optimization, and capital program alignment. You’ll direct programs across the asset management lifecycle, including asset data and criticality, condition/RUL modeling, risk registers, O&M/RCM optimization, CIP prioritization, resilience and climate adaptation, and performance management. You’ll also oversee CMMS/EAM delivery (IBM Maximo, Infor, SAP, Cityworks), guiding requirements, configuration, data governance, and change management.
In Practice Building, you’ll grow a high-performing team and mentor project managers and analysts in IAM/GFMAM competencies and ISO-aligned delivery methods. You’ll develop playbooks and methodologies for risk-based decision making, lifecycle costing, and reliability strategies. On the Business Development front, you’ll own pipeline creation and capture—leading positioning, solutioning, scoping, pricing, and proposal development for municipal asset management, O&M optimization, and digital water pursuits. You’ll represent GHD at industry forums such as AWWA, WEF, and IAM, and author thought leadership that shapes the future of water infrastructure.
Our Hybrid Work Model:
Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment. This position can be based in most US based locations.
Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:
- Data Collection and Analysis: Make authoritative recommendations that have a significant impact on the business over the short and long term. Recommendations could be technical or professional in nature.
- Community of Practice Management: Contribute strongly on a strategically significant area to a community of practice in a defined area of expertise or consulting, or lead on an area of expertise or consulting practice, to contribute to thought leadership and to develop innovative practice among colleagues.
- Consulting Project Content Development: Develop innovative approaches and write materials that are highly visible—such as slide decks for presentations on innovative solutions to top management, or bespoke and market-leading client reports—to complete the work of client team.
- Consulting Project Delivery: Deliver bespoke training, facilitate workshops with senior management, and provide advice and reports to address identified senior management issues. Manage the delivery quality of the work in own area of specialism to ensure maximum client satisfaction.
- Consulting Project/Program Design: Design the project/program architecture, building on the initial proposal and the strategic client interviews to develop multiple solutions that meet the client's stated requirements and address complex client issues.
- Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
- Project Management: Manage a portfolio of major projects in line with overall project management strategy.
- Client & Customer Management (External): Manage key client and customer relationships. Likely to involve using account teams to maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty.
What you will bring to the team:
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical, Chemical, or Industrial/Systems Engineering (Master’s degree in engineering, asset management, data analytics, or public administration a plus)
- Professional Engineer licensure required
- 10+ years in municipal water/wastewater asset management consulting with progressive responsibility leading programs and teams
- Proven success implementing risk/LoS/lifecycle frameworks and translating results into prioritized capital & O&M plans for utilities
- Hands-on leadership with CMMS/EAM (Maximo, Infor, SAP PM, Cityworks) and integration with GIS/SCADA/B
- RCM, maintenance planning/scheduling, and reliability analytics (FMECA/criticality, PM optimization)
- Comfortability in facilitating councils/boards and cross-functional utility teams (operations, engineering, finance/treasury)
- Able and willing to travel 20-40% as projects require
Benefits:
- 401K - Employees are eligible to participate on the first day of the month following 3 months of service
- Paid time off – Our PTO benefit is designed to provide eligible employees with a period of rest and relaxation, sick, and personal time throughout the year. PTO starts at 16 days per year and increases with years of service
- Holiday Pay - Holiday pay is provided for eligible employees. GHD observes 9 holidays per year. Holiday pay will be based on the regular set schedule for the employee
- Wellness Benefit - Regular full-term employees are eligible to participate in the wellness reimbursement program. GHD will reimburse 50% of the cost of the following to maximum of $250.00 reimbursement annually for such items as: Health club membership fees, home exercise equipment purchases, Bicycles, Race, run & marathon entrance fees, Smoking cessation programs, Weight loss programs (i.e.—Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig), Fitbits and Fitness Tracking devices
Salary range: $147,000-$300,000 based on experience and location
As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, national origin, sex (including same sex), sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, age, disability or handicap, citizenship status, service member status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.
About us
Take on some of the world’s toughest challenges - with GHD supporting you every step of the way. We'll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact. See where your commitment could take you with GHD.
Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day. That’s why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today. See where your commitment could take you. That’s the #PowerOfCommitment
Who We Are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents. The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It’s what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity’s most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.
Job Description
To solve complex challenges, you need to challenge the status-quo. At GHD Advisory we are invested in creating sustainable commercial outcomes with clients driving change in water, energy and urbanization. Join a team committed to solving complex challenges across the value chain, from capital deployment to asset management, enabling resilience, growth and sustainability. Together, we’ll help create a future for generations to come.
Who are we looking for?
GHD is seeking an Asset Management, Team Lead - Water (US) to grow and deliver our municipal water and wastewater asset management practice. In this pivotal role, you will set the strategy, win work, and lead multi-disciplinary teams delivering programs that align with ISO 55000 principles, AWWA utility management/AM standards, and US best practices (EPA). As a leader in Client & Project Leadership, you’ll serve as the account and engagement lead for city, county, and regional utilities—shaping roadmaps for levels of service, risk, lifecycle and cost optimization, and capital program alignment. You’ll direct programs across the asset management lifecycle, including asset data and criticality, condition/RUL modeling, risk registers, O&M/RCM optimization, CIP prioritization, resilience and climate adaptation, and performance management. You’ll also oversee CMMS/EAM delivery (IBM Maximo, Infor, SAP, Cityworks), guiding requirements, configuration, data governance, and change management.
In Practice Building, you’ll grow a high-performing team and mentor project managers and analysts in IAM/GFMAM competencies and ISO-aligned delivery methods. You’ll develop playbooks and methodologies for risk-based decision making, lifecycle costing, and reliability strategies. On the Business Development front, you’ll own pipeline creation and capture—leading positioning, solutioning, scoping, pricing, and proposal development for municipal asset management, O&M optimization, and digital water pursuits. You’ll represent GHD at industry forums such as AWWA, WEF, and IAM, and author thought leadership that shapes the future of water infrastructure.
Our Hybrid Work Model:
Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment. This position can be based in most US based locations.
Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:
- Data Collection and Analysis: Make authoritative recommendations that have a significant impact on the business over the short and long term. Recommendations could be technical or professional in nature.
- Community of Practice Management: Contribute strongly on a strategically significant area to a community of practice in a defined area of expertise or consulting, or lead on an area of expertise or consulting practice, to contribute to thought leadership and to develop innovative practice among colleagues.
- Consulting Project Content Development: Develop innovative approaches and write materials that are highly visible—such as slide decks for presentations on innovative solutions to top management, or bespoke and market-leading client reports—to complete the work of client team.
- Consulting Project Delivery: Deliver bespoke training, facilitate workshops with senior management, and provide advice and reports to address identified senior management issues. Manage the delivery quality of the work in own area of specialism to ensure maximum client satisfaction.
- Consulting Project/Program Design: Design the project/program architecture, building on the initial proposal and the strategic client interviews to develop multiple solutions that meet the client's stated requirements and address complex client issues.
- Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
- Project Management: Manage a portfolio of major projects in line with overall project management strategy.
- Client & Customer Management (External): Manage key client and customer relationships. Likely to involve using account teams to maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty.
What you will bring to the team:
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical, Chemical, or Industrial/Systems Engineering (Master’s degree in engineering, asset management, data analytics, or public administration a plus)
- Professional Engineer licensure required
- 10+ years in municipal water/wastewater asset management consulting with progressive responsibility leading programs and teams
- Proven success implementing risk/LoS/lifecycle frameworks and translating results into prioritized capital & O&M plans for utilities
- Hands-on leadership with CMMS/EAM (Maximo, Infor, SAP PM, Cityworks) and integration with GIS/SCADA/B
- RCM, maintenance planning/scheduling, and reliability analytics (FMECA/criticality, PM optimization)
- Comfortability in facilitating councils/boards and cross-functional utility teams (operations, engineering, finance/treasury)
- Able and willing to travel 20-40% as projects require
Benefits:
- 401K - Employees are eligible to participate on the first day of the month following 3 months of service
- Paid time off – Our PTO benefit is designed to provide eligible employees with a period of rest and relaxation, sick, and personal time throughout the year. PTO starts at 16 days per year and increases with years of service
- Holiday Pay - Holiday pay is provided for eligible employees. GHD observes 9 holidays per year. Holiday pay will be based on the regular set schedule for the employee
- Wellness Benefit - Regular full-term employees are eligible to participate in the wellness reimbursement program. GHD will reimburse 50% of the cost of the following to maximum of $250.00 reimbursement annually for such items as: Health club membership fees, home exercise equipment purchases, Bicycles, Race, run & marathon entrance fees, Smoking cessation programs, Weight loss programs (i.e.—Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig), Fitbits and Fitness Tracking devices
Salary range: $147,000-$300,000 based on experience and location
As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, national origin, sex (including same sex), sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, age, disability or handicap, citizenship status, service member status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.
About us
Take on some of the world’s toughest challenges - with GHD supporting you every step of the way. We'll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact. See where your commitment could take you with GHD.
Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day. That’s why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today. See where your commitment could take you. That’s the #PowerOfCommitment
Who We Are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents. The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It’s what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity’s most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.
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Frame your credentials around infrastructure delivery
GHD's project management work is heavily weighted toward civil, environmental, and engineering infrastructure. PMP or CAPM certification paired with sector-relevant project examples, such as water, transport, or energy programs, signals direct fit before you even apply.
Target GHD's regional offices strategically
GHD staffs Project Management Consultants across dozens of U.S. offices, and hiring pace varies by region and active contracts. Roles tied to infrastructure-funded programs in states with active federal spending tend to open and fill faster than corporate generalist positions.
Clarify your visa category early in interviews
GHD sponsors multiple visa types for this role, and each carries different employer obligations and timelines. Naming your status clearly in the first recruiter screen, whether F-1 OPT, TN, or EB-2 PERM, lets the hiring team assess feasibility before the offer stage.
Use OPT strategically if you're near graduation
F-1 OPT gives you up to 12 months of work authorization without requiring GHD to file a petition immediately. STEM OPT extension can extend that window to 36 months, giving you time to demonstrate performance before the company initiates a longer-term sponsorship process.
Understand the PERM timeline for EB-2 and EB-3 paths
If GHD sponsors you for an employment-based Green Card, the DOL PERM labor certification process typically runs six to twelve months before USCIS can adjudicate the I-140 petition. Factor this into your longer-term planning if you're targeting permanent residence through this role.
Browse open roles using Migrate Mate
GHD posts Project Management Consultant roles across multiple U.S. locations. Use Migrate Mate to filter open positions by visa type and location so you're applying to roles already tagged for sponsorship, rather than screening manually across generic job boards.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does GHD sponsor H-1B visas for Project Management Consultants?
GHD's sponsorship activity for Project Management Consultants centers on employment-based Green Card pathways such as EB-2 and EB-3, as well as F-1 OPT, CPT, TN visa, and J-1 visa statuses. If H-1B visa sponsorship is your primary need, confirm this directly with the recruiter early in the process, as sponsorship offerings can vary by office and contract pipeline.
How do I apply for Project Management Consultant jobs at GHD?
Applications go through GHD's careers portal, where roles are listed by location and practice area. Migrate Mate also aggregates GHD's open Project Management Consultant positions and filters them by visa sponsorship type, which can save time if you're targeting roles that match your specific immigration status. Tailor your application to reflect infrastructure or engineering project experience where possible.
Which visa types does GHD commonly use for Project Management Consultants?
GHD has sponsored Project Management Consultants under EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card pathways, F-1 OPT and CPT for recent graduates, TN status for Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying professional categories, and J-1 for exchange visitors. The most appropriate path depends on your nationality, degree field, and how long you've been in the U.S.
What qualifications does GHD expect for a Project Management Consultant role?
GHD typically looks for a bachelor's degree in engineering, environmental science, construction management, or a related technical field. Project management certification such as PMP strengthens your profile. Consulting experience on large infrastructure or government contracts is a meaningful differentiator, as GHD's work often spans multi-year programs in water, transport, and energy sectors.
How long does the sponsorship and hiring process take at GHD?
Timelines vary by visa type. F-1 OPT and TN can be arranged relatively quickly, sometimes within weeks of an offer. EB-2 or EB-3 Green Card sponsorship involves a DOL PERM labor certification stage that typically takes six to twelve months, followed by USCIS adjudication of the I-140 petition. Planning ahead and discussing your timeline with GHD's HR team early in the process helps both sides set realistic expectations.