Pacific Area Business Strategy Leader

Job Summary

Project Background

The One Water Lahaina program has evolved into a comprehensive, integrated water resources framework that now serves as the backbone of Maui County's recovery strategy following the 2023 Kula and Lahaina Wildfires and subsequent 2026 flooding disasters. Rather than treating wastewater, potable water, stormwater, reuse, and watershed and cultural resources as separate systems, One Water Lahaina aligns them under a single, coordinated approach focused on resilience, long-term service reliability, and recovery outcomes. This integrated model recognizes that wildfire, drought, and flooding impacts are deeply interconnected, and that rebuilding efforts must strengthen the full water cycle to reduce future risk while supporting housing, economic recovery, and ecosystem health.

This integrated water strategy is deeply embedded in the mission of the Office of Recovery (OOR), which was established as the County's central hub for disaster response and long-term recovery following the federally declared wildfire disaster that secured approximately $1.6 billion in CDBG-DR funding. The OOR is responsible for implementing the County's LongTerm Recovery Plan and overseeing a rapidly expanding recovery portfolio that now exceeds $7 billion across housing, infrastructure, public services, and economic development. The fiveyear Capital Improvement Program through June 2031 alone approaches $1.8 billion and includes major investments in water, wastewater, stormwater, reuse, and transportation systems needed to enable housing delivery and community rebuilding. Subsequent disasters, including the March 2026 Kona Low flooding events, have further increased the scale, funding complexity, and urgency of coordinated waterrelated recovery efforts.

Within this context, One Water Lahaina functions as both a technical framework and an operational organizing principle for recovery delivery. Through targeted program management, governance, and staff augmentation support, Brown and Caldwell is supporting the County of Maui, Office of Recovery is advancing standardized recovery operations that improve intake, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery of capital projects. This includes establishing clear recovery operations structures, performance dashboards, stakeholder engagement protocols, and delivery assurance practices that support transparency and decisionmaking across agencies and funding sources. By anchoring recovery operations in a One Water approach, the County is ensuring that rebuilding efforts not only restore damaged systems, but also deliver integrated, resilient infrastructure that supports Maui's longterm recovery and climate resilience goals.

Role Descriptions

One Water Lahaina Recovery Program Lead:

Responsibilities: Reports to Program Director and works in partnership with Director to define recovery mission, objectives, and outcomes; connects Long-term Recovery Plan and One Water principles to implementation. Supports director in building strong and high functioning team to execute and deliver support for Recovery Operations from a One Water Strategy context, and ensures program coherence to OOR overall objectives. Must have overall and general understanding of capital improvement programs and project implementation (conception to construction to commissioning), municipal organizations, and County of Maui client and community. Additionally, supports and provides best practices in Business Consulting and organizational change. This role will require being in the client and/or the Brown and Caldwell Wailuku office 2 to 3 days per week (16 to 24 hours per week). The succession planning strategy is for this role to grow into the Director of the Office of Recovery, One Water Lahaina Program.

Pacific Area Business Strategy Lead:

Responsibilities: Work directly with the Area Director and Local Market Leaders to develop, implement and manage the resourcing strategy to support the projected growth for all Pacific Area markets with an initial focus on the Maui market. This will require coordination with Client Service Managers, Practice Leaders and Local Market leaders to define resource needs based on current contracted sales and projected opportunities to develop, implement and manage a long-term strategy for recruiting new talent, developing existing talent and succession planning. This role will also lead our local Finance and Funding service areas in coordination with our national team. This will be performed in collaboration with our local and national Advisory Services group.

Other core responsibilities include:

• Lead targeted and/or comprehensive business assessments and development of implementation strategies and plans for our clients to enhance their operations and efficiency.
• Lead efforts to support Client's development of comprehensive planning approaches and practices that connect strategic goals and objectives to implementation.
• Lead development of guidelines, processes, and procedures for client assigned functional areas to bolster operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Lead organizational development and management services for clients to achieve organizational excellence.
• Identify and assess potential risks to both BC and client organization, and ensure proper governance and policy development.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of company standards and best practices.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong systems thinking competency for analyzing organizational and business needs.
• Strong proficiency in researching, developing and communicating an understanding of a client's essential or critical business factors.
• Strong proficiency in organizational function and structure.
• Strong proficiency in the application of organizational development and management principles.
• Strong proficiency in workforce development, performance improvement and organizational design.
• Working proficiency in governance and policy development.
• Advanced facilitation and interview skills.
• Advanced communication (written and oral) and presentation skills.
• Working proficiency in risk identification, mitigation and management.
• Advanced proficiency in business process analysis, mapping, and development skills.
• Working proficiency in the application of digital solutions, AI tools, and technology systems.
• Effective leadership skills to inspire and guide a team.

Experience

• Typically, a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in a similar role.
• Prior experience in leading projects.
• Experience in analyzing organizational and business needs, organizational development, and change management.
• Typically certified in the SMS Framework, and progressing through the SMS competencies.

Education

• A relevant degree or equivalent experience in business administration, management, communications or a related field.

Key Characteristics

Credible; calm under pressure; collaborative; comfortable with ambiguity; outcome-focused; ability to understand vision and leverage concepts as strategy for operations.

Mentorship

Provide mentorship, guidance, support, and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow within their roles.

Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee's primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Location B: $128,000 - $175,000

You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter.

Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.

About Brown and Caldwell

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction services firm with 50 offices and over 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice-to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com

This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.

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