Transportation Group Leader

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manages, supervises, and evaluates the employees in their practice/service area
• Makes staffing adjustments in their practice/service area with concurrence of Chief Production Officer, Office Manager and Human Resources Manager
• Ensures adherence to all company standards and practice design/production standards, procedures, and policies
• Helps build project teams by assigning group production employees/resources to project managers
• Assists project managers by developing and reviewing scopes, schedules and time budgets for work to be executed in their group
• Monitors team performance to ensure group’s adherence to agreed upon scopes, schedules, and budgets
• Ensures accuracy of deliverables by adhering to all QA/QC procedures for all work products developed in their group
• Collaborates with and mentors group production employees to develop efficient and effective design solutions
• Monitors group workload and maintains appropriate staffing levels
• Stays current on new products, technologies, innovations, and developments in their practice area
• Develops and coordinates with the Practice Leader on training needs and budget to ensure proper training of employees in their group
• Makes recommendations to Chief Production Officer and Office Manager regarding utilization goals, design programs/tools, and training needs and budgets
• Monitors and maintains utilization goals
• Maintains regular communication with other Group Leaders in their office and with other Group Leaders in their practice area in other offices to balance workload and share expertise/resources
• Maintains regular communication with the Practice Leader to improve project execution and delivery
• Participates in the RFP/RFQ process including, site visits, client meetings, scope development, preparation of project approach, technical execution plans, schedules, and interviews
• Serves as Lead Engineer/Technical Project Lead, as needed, on a project by project basis
• Maintains regular communication with Chief Production Officer and Office Manager
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or related field
• 6 or more years of engineering experience in their practice area
• Registration as a Professional Engineer in the State where the office is located or ability to obtain within six months
• Complete and thorough knowledge of the principles and practices of engineering in their practice area
• Demonstrated ability to supervise and mentor personnel
• Excellent communication skills