Transportation Engineering- Practice Lead
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Job Location:
Cheshire, CT - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 200 - 230
Posted on:
13 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We are seeking a Practice Leader to lead and advance our Transportation Engineering discipline. This role champions team leadership engineering excellence and the growth of talent across a multidisciplinary consulting environment. The Practice Leader will support project delivery mentor technical staff and drive quality management while partnering with service line leadership to strengthen and grow our transportation practice.
SLR Consulting is a 500 coast-to-coast team of advisory environmental and engineering professionals. We deliver sustainable design solutions for our clients through the integration of over 30 advisory technical environmental and engineering disciplines to address some of their most complex challenges. We are Making Sustainability Happen.
As our new Practice Leader of Transportation Engineering you will play an important role on a team whose work is essential to achieving this goal.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and oversight for transportation engineering projects for highway bridge intersection corridor multimodal and transit-based improvements.
- Serve as a senior technical resource for engineers and designers supporting problem-solving and design decision-making.
- Oversee and balance the existing high-volume workload.
- Develop maintain and enforce engineering standards design criteria and best practices.
- Lead and support QA/QC processes technical reviews and risk management efforts.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical training and professional development.
- Assist service line leadership with resource planning hiring and workload management.
- Support business development and guide proposal efforts through contract negotiations.
- Coordinate with environmental planning and landscape architecture teams to ensure effective integration without compromising engineering quality.
- Stay current with design standards codes and agency requirements (AASHTO state DOTs local agencies).
- Engage with professional organizations to promote team networking.
- Drive consistent growth in sales and revenue while maintaining profitability year-to-year.
Working @ SLR
With us there is no doubt youll grow your subject-matter expertise and industry knowledge. We care about investing in our employees for the long-run and if you ask our team theyll tell you thats just one of the many benefits of working here. We want to be a place where you can experience career growth and satisfaction for many years.
Heres what else youll enjoy as part of our team:
- Competitive total compensation package including medical dental orthodontia vision FSA/HSA generous PTO accrual 10 paid holidays 401(k) retirement account with company matching program company paid life insurance short & long term disability insurance and employee assistance program.
- The salary range for this position is $200k - $230k. Final agreed upon compensation will be commensurate with individual education professional designation experience internal parity and location.
- Full-time permanent role with opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
Qualifications/Education/Memberships:
- Bachelors degree in Civil or Transportation Engineering.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license required (CT preferred or ability to obtain quickly through reciprocity).
- 20 years of relevant experience in transportation systems design and/or planning ideally within a consulting environment.
- Proven experience leading multidisciplinary project teams.
- Strong communication collaboration and leadership skills.
- Experience with State DOT municipal or regional transportation agencies preferred.
- Familiarity with sustainability principles and environmental permitting processes a plus.
- Preferred:
- Experience in a multidisciplinary consulting firm supporting public-sector transportation clients
- Knowledge of state and federal-funding and related policies and procedures
- Prior role as a technical lead discipline manager or senior project manager
- Experience reviewing plans specifications estimates calculations and reports for compliance and constructability
Diversity equity and inclusion (DE&I) are at the core of who we are and want to be.
SLR is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity / AffirmativeAction Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin gender sexual orientation civil union status age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or expression genetic information or veteran status.
At SLR we embrace diverse cultures perspectives skills and experiences within and outside our organization. We respect and celebrate differences and want to ensure that we continuously strive to build a place where everyone is included and encouraged to be their authentic self.
We are committed to these values and our SLR Culture & Diversity Team works to actively promote diversity equity and inclusion across our people and talent processes operations and client work around the you have a disability and need reasonable accommodations at any point in the application or interview process please contact us at .
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Practice Management
- Veterinary Experience
- Enterprise Architecture
- Office Manager Experience
- Enterprise Software
- Healthcare Management
- IaaS
- TOGAF
- Medical office experience
- Conflict Management
- COBIT
- Customer relationship management
