Mid-Atlantic Transportation Design Division Manager
Mid-Atlantic Transportation Design Division Manager
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$ 175000 - 250000
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Job Description
Century Engineering LLC (a Kleinfelder Company) is seeking a highly qualified professional engineer to lead and manage the MidAtlantic area (Maryland DC and Northern Virginia) Transportation Design Division.
The Transportation Design Division includes highway structures and traffic engineering water and environmental resources including drainage SWM E&SC H/H modeling and scour environmental assessments and permitting transportation and environmental planning/NEPA and GIS/application services. The Transportation Design Division Manager will be responsible for all aspects of the division operations including business development client relations partnering with other firms proposal preparation with our marketing department overseeing technical services scheduling coordination with other divisions/ offices delivering high quality services hiring talented people and profitable growth.
The Transportation Design Division Manager should have experience leading or participating in various contract types (design/bid/build design/build and P3 and strong experience with regional state and local business units. Additional experience with other clients/ contracts such as federal VDOT or local government is a plus. The Transportation Design Division Manager must be highly motivated promote a team approach have good interpersonal skills (high emotional intelligence) and excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
Centurys Transportation Design Division has a significant number of contracts contract capacity and workload backlog. Century also provides comprehensive relevant services which support providing transportation services to clients including but not limited to: surveys/ plats geotechnical landscaping utilities water/ wastewater and construction management/ inspection.
Century became part of the Kleinfelder group of companies in 2021. Century has integrated smoothly and continues to deliver quality transportation services to clients. As part of Kleinfelder 96 offices and over 3000 people) there are many opportunities for collaboration across offices and being involved in large regional and national contracts and projects.
Seeking an exceptional leader to serve as the Transportation Design Division Manager for the Maryland DC and Northern Virginia Transportation market focused on improving performance streamlining processes and driving growth. The Transportation Design Division Manager is responsible for profit and loss with the responsibility to hire and fire across the transportation business.
The right leader will be someone who can envision the future stay up to date on the latest technologies and set internal engineering and project standards that ensure seamless project delivery. The Transportation Design Division Manager will be responsible for developing and executing a longterm strategy for growth including the development of the transportation one three and fiveyear strategic plans inclusive of markets and clients. By providing oversight and leadership for the transportation business this person will lead the groups expansion from strategy to ensuring that the right people are engaged and the right clients and projects are pursued. The responsibility includes client satisfaction and performance evaluation.
We seek a leader who will recruit and retain excellent talent collaborate with other leaders and ensure that upandcoming talent is hired and given challenging development assignments. The leader we seek will understand that cultural norms drive outstanding performance project delivery and client satisfaction.
Specific Duties include:
- Provide oversight and leadership for the existing Transportation Business Line throughout Maryland DC and Northern Virginia
- Project experience includes traditional and alternate delivery.
- The transportation leader will have complete control of internal resources marketing budget and complete support from the MD/VA/DC Area Manager.
- Lead the growth of the group through the pursuit of transportationrelated projects in highway design planning traffic water resources GIS and bridge design/inspection.
- Demonstrate successful experience with MD DC and NoVA Department of Transportation Business Units City County and Local municipalities.
- Develop a strategic plan for longerterm growth including the development of the Transportation one three and fiveyear strategic plan inclusive of markets and clients with coordination of regional operations managers.
- Provide direction on major transportation pursuits and industry expertise to clients.
- Responsible for maintaining and enhancing relationships with current clients to ensure highquality and compliant design services projects and all other deliverables are delivered.
- Establish and maintain standards processes and procedures that ensure a high level of project quality and targeted profitability is maintained on transportation projects.
- Play a significant role in maintaining staffing and other resources necessary to ensure projects are executed with a high level of efficiency and technical excellence.
- Plan recruit and develop the talent needed to support the technical managerial and supervisory skills necessary for the growth of the division.
- Identify employee core competencies and career opportunities to drive technical expertise and succession planning.
- Lead the transportation operations and provide project managers with business planning hours/revenue planning and forecasting workshare and staff balancing training needed for success.
- Serve as the overall QA/QC leader and provide oversight of the Transportation Quality Assurance Plan ensuring its application and consistency across the Transportation Design Group.
Specific Skills/ Experience/ Education
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to lead and grow teams.
- Professional approach appropriate to represent the company in all settings.
- 20 years of transportation experience plus 10 years in a leadership role.
- BS in Civil or Structural Engineering or equivalent transportation engineering related discipline.
- PE is required.
- Solid professional relationships with key area clients and teaming partners.
- Demonstrated success with strategic planning for longterm business plans including setting/measuring goals and leadership of strategic pursuits.
- Solid understating of Financials including but not limited to KPls; Revenue Sales DSO CMbA Estimate to Complete on projects.
- Successful experience growing revenues in transportation markets.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit retain and develop highend talent to an organization.
- Demonstrated experience with quality management including implementation and enforcement of QA/QC standards.
- Client development experience related to direct meetings strategy projects and industry associations.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of traditional and alternative delivery methods to include P3 and DesignBuild projects highly desired.
- Active in professional organizations preferably having served on committees or held positions of responsibility.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results on challenging projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to author proposals and work with the Business Development and Marketing Dept to author proposals.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
