Engineering Director

STV has an immediate need for an Engineering Director in our Owensboro KY office for our Transportation & Infrastructure division. This position will include office leadership and other firm-wide roles. The successful candidate will support our current staff while assisting in growing the Kentucky practice to better service our clients statewide.

This position offers a leadership role at an Engineer News-Record (ENR) Top 50 rated firm. This individual would assist other senior staff in collaborating with various agencies in Kentucky and the surrounding area. The ideal candidate is an individual who desires to lead through example is professionally respected an excellent communicator and possesses a vast understanding of project delivery.

The candidate will be managing projects under supervision from senior managers and work with junior staff members for successful project production and execution.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to grow a Transportation and Infrastructure practice work with various clients in Kentucky and lead business development efforts for Transportation and Infrastructure pursuits. This is an excellent role for a creative self-motivated and detail-oriented professional that enjoys being a part of a team environment and growing a team!

Responsibilities include:

• Practice building mentorship and skill development of professional staff.
• Lead business development and proposal efforts for Transportation and Infrastructure projects.
• Management of a multi-discipline technical teams to deliver projects to clients.
• Negotiating and establishing project budgets staffing project coordination and productivity necessary to deliver exceptional services to our clients.
• Coordination with other directors/leaders to ensure a consistent level of technical standards and applications on projects.
• Performs and manages diverse and complex discipline work tasks requiring extensive planning communication and management skills.
• Collaborates with multi-discipline professionals within the project team and includes the ability to integrate a series of independent and often interrelated professional actions to attain desired project goals.
• Develop and nurture key client relationships and leverage existing client relationships for future work opportunities.
• Working with practice and office leadership focus on client development business development and industry participation.
• Assist with public involvement efforts and presentations.

Required Skills:

• Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering or Planning (Masters Degree a plus).
• Minimum 15 years of Transportation and Infrastructure experience.
• Kentucky Professional Engineer (PE).
• Direct experience in successfully delivering transportation projects.
• Direct experience in assessing leadership for multi-discipline projects with high degrees of technical complexity and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Experience working with transportation agencies including federal state and local Transportation and Infrastructure practice development and management capability.
• Experience with Business Development and Operations management.
• Experience with Owensboro area agencies KYTC and other Kentucky-based agencies.
• A strong reputation with major clients knowledge of market opportunities in Kentucky and a facility for business development and winning project work.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proven project management skills with experience overseeing complex transportation projects.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Compensation Range:

STV offers the following benefits Health insurance including an option with a Health Savings Account Dental insurance Vision insurance Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable) Disability insurance Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment 401(k) Plan Retirement Counseling Employee Assistance Program Paid Time Off (starting at 16 days) Paid Holidays (9 days) Back-Up Dependent Care (up to 10 days per year) Parental Leave (up to 80 hours) Continuing Education Program Professional Licensure and Society Memberships

STV is committed to paying all of its employees in a fair equitable and transparent manner. The listed pay range is STVs good-faith salary estimate for this position. Please note that the final salary offered for this position may be outside of this published range based on many factors including but not limited to geography education experience and/or certifications.

Not sure this role is the perfect match We encourage you to apply if STVs work and values resonate with you. We know great candidates dont always meet every qualification and research shows women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they do. At STV we believe strong talent comes from a wide range of backgrounds and your skills and experience may align with this or another opportunity as we continue to grow.