Vice President, Florida Water Market Leader

What We're Looking For Barge is making a focused, long-term strategic investment to establish and scale a leading presence in the Florida water market. This initiative reflects the firm’s confidence in Florida’s sustained infrastructure needs and its intent to build a durable, market-leading platform rather than pursue incremental or opportunistic growth. Florida represents one of the nation’s most active and complex water markets, driven by population growth, regulatory demands, resilience needs, and long-term utility investment creating a compelling opportunity for a purpose-built market platform. To deliver on this vision, Barge seeks a senior water-market executive with a proven track record of building businesses, developing high-performing teams, and establishing trusted client relationships. This role is structured as a strategic partnership pairing executive authority with capital investment and performance-based incentives aligned to long-term success. Barge is making a focused, long-term strategic investment to establish and scale a leading presence in the Florida water market. This initiative reflects the firm’s confidence in Florida’s sustained infrastructure needs and its intent to build a durable, market-leading platform rather than pursue incremental or opportunistic growth. Florida represents one of the nation’s most active and complex water markets, driven by population growth, regulatory demands, resilience needs, and long-term utility investment creating a compelling opportunity for a purpose-built market platform. To deliver on this vision, Barge seeks a senior water-market executive with a proven track record of building businesses, developing high-performing teams, and establishing trusted client relationships. This role is structured as a strategic partnership pairing executive authority with capital investment and performance-based incentives aligned to long-term success. The Florida Water Market Leader will help establish and execute a growth strategy for Barge’s water business across Florida, with an emphasis on Northeast and Central Florida and priority public-sector and utility clients. This is a build-and-scale leadership role. The leader will be empowered to define market strategy, assemble the team, and execute a multi-year growth plan aligned with Barge’s water and public-sector objectives. Responsibilities Defining and executing a multi-year Florida water market growth strategy Establishing Barge’s brand presence and trusted-client status Leading key client relationships, pursuit strategy, and account development Recruiting, developing, and mentoring a high-performing Florida-based water team Partnering with firm leadership to align growth with Barge’s strategy, culture, and values Lead, strategize and support Barge participation in Florida water and wastewater professional societies; and regional and statewide seminars and conferences Authority Leads the development of and is the key contributor to Florida’s water market strategy, client prioritization, and geographic focus Authority to recruit and build a Florida Water team of up to ten (10) professionals in Year One Discretionary use of approved signing bonus and business development investments within an agreed business plan Accountability Responsible for growth trajectory, backlog development, and long-term sustainability of the Florida Water market Performance evaluated against mutually agreed strategic, financial, and organizational milestones Education & Experience Qualifications Bachelor's degree from accredited program. Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience in the A&E industry Experience and demonstrated success securing and delivering projects for public sector clients. Extensive professional network in FL comprised of clients, competitors, and contractors. Professional Engineer License preferred but not required Why join us? Barge Design Solutions, Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 650+ people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record’s Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great Place To Work®. Our Primary Purpose For Being In Business Is Ultimately To Create a Better Life By Unleashing The Potential Of Our People, Clients And Communities. This Purpose Is Supported By Our Company’s Core Values Because At The End Of The Day, Barge CARES Collaborate – Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do. Authentic – Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are. Responsible – We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better. Excellence – We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us. Service – We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others. We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most. Equal Opportunity Employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. 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