Director of Engineering for our Jacksonville, Florida office. This position will lead the Civil practice in northeast Florida. As one of the region’s largest engineering firms, we have a significant presence in the Jacksonville market with staff supporting numerous key public and private clients with exceptional planning, landscape architecture, surveying and engineering services. As a key leader within our firm, the successful candidate will play an integral role in growing the business in northeast Florida.
Job Duties:
- Lead and develop a team of project managers, engineers, and technicians for the implementation of public infrastructure projects and/or private land development projects.
- Identify project pursuits, market clients, and manage pursuits including proposal and presentation preparation. Coordinate and develop proposed scope, schedule, and fee for projects pursued and lead the interview team.
- Actively win new work from both new and existing clients by building and maintaining customer relationships, monitoring future work opportunities, communicating regularly, and attending client events.
- Collaboration with other services such as transportation, water, CEI, planning, and landscape architecture/planning to market and deliver full-service project opportunities to clients.
- Directly manage projects on time and within the project budget and maintain a high level of client satisfaction.
- Monitor and manage the financial aspects of all projects within the group. Travel is estimated to be approximately 15% to other offices, meet with clients, attend project-specific meetings, and business development.
General Characteristics
- Makes decisions with broad influence on activities of their practices.
- Makes authoritative decisions and recommendations that are conclusive and have a far-reaching impact on the practice and the industry.
- Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing, and guiding projects and activities of major consequence.
- Provides leadership and develops and engages others to create a common vision for their projects and the practice.
- Assesses the acceptability of engineering economic analyses and the risks associated with solutions to complex engineering problems.
- Evaluates solutions to complex problems that involve multiple specialty areas of engineering.
- Advocates for ethical behavior in the practice of engineering and assesses courses of resolution to ethical dilemmas in complicated situations.
Experience
- 17+ years of experience
- Florida experience preferred
Education
- B.S. or M.S. Engineering, Master's Degree or Equivalent Experience Preferred
Certification/Licensure
- Professional Engineer (P.E.) License, reciprocity in multiple states.
- Driver's License
Technical Responsibilities
- Frequently performs advisory or consulting work for the practice across broad project areas or within a specialized area with innovative/complex aspects.
- Assesses practices and requirements to achieve sustainable performance of complex engineering projects from a systems perspective.
Project and Task Management
- Evaluates project management plans for complex engineering projects.
- Develops risk mitigation plans to address project risks.
- Evaluates effectiveness of leaders and teams.
Communication, Teamwork and Leadership
- Negotiates critical and controversial issues with leadership of other practices.
- Represents their practice at important functions and conferences.
Management, Supervision and Guidance
- Develops projects needed for accomplishing the objectives of the practice.
- Develops practice strategy for staff development through mentored experience, continuing education, and self-development.
- Instills and fosters professional attitudes within the practice.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, vision, dental, company paid Long Term Disability, and Short Term Disability (benefits start within 30 days of hire)
- New paid Maternity/Paternity/Adoption program
- Generous Paid Time Off and 7 paid holidays
- 401k company match
- Tuition Reimbursement
