Corporate Project Delivery Director

Geosyntec Consultants•Boca Raton, FL

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

Geosyntec is seeking a Corporate Project Delivery Director to lead the firm’s Project Delivery Operating model across the United States. This role can be based in any of our US locations, with potential for hybrid work. The Director will ensure consistent, scalable systems, tools, policies, and performance governance nationwide, aligning corporate resources with operational needs. This position requires anticipating and driving change by collaborating with Regional Project Delivery Directors, Finance, Legal, and Learning & Development to enhance service agreement terms, address adoption gaps, and build organizational capability through data-informed training and quality assurance. The role involves serving as a strategic liaison for major enterprise initiatives such as the ERP/Data Warehouse transition, annual billing rate adjustments, digital strategy, and M&A due diligence. Additionally, the Director will provide expert support to regions for go/no-go decisions and risk mitigation to ensure project delivery excellence. Geosyntec is an international engineering and consulting firm known for its technical leadership and client service, serving clients globally on environmental, natural resources, energy, and civil infrastructure projects. The company invests in its employees, offering competitive compensation, benefits, and well-being programs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher.
Professional registration and/or certification as personal practice dictates.
At least 15 years of progressive professional experience executing and delivering projects to clients in the architecture, engineering, and consulting (AEC) industry.
In-depth knowledge of the company business model, organization, and project delivery initiatives, with demonstrated experience successfully delivering projects using a variety of delivery types while working within a project delivery framework and interfacing closely with a Quality Management Plan.
Internal experience as a strong, proven leader (internally with practitioners and corporate teams and/ externally with clients) of numerous complex projects and diverse teams.
Excellence in project management, project controls, and risk management.
Experience in a variety of project fee types, end markets, and client types (e.g., public, private, client groups, research).
Strong negotiation skills and ability to achieve mutually beneficial agreements in challenging situations.
Current or past experience serving on a leadership team and/or in line management.
Valid U.S. driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record for business travel.

Nice To Haves

Project management certification.
Experience training adults in the professional services industry.

Responsibilities

Set the enterprise strategy for project delivery tools and systems, including evaluating and advancing AI-enabled technologies for larger, more complex, and higher-risk work.
Lead firmwide decision-making on project delivery tool investments, ensuring alignment with strategic growth and enterprise risk tolerance.
Collaborate with and provide directional leadership to Regional Project Delivery Directors by synthesizing regional input into enterprise priorities, standards, and improvement roadmaps.
Provide enterprise leadership on project delivery business terms, partnering with Accounting and Legal to influence firm-wide positions on rates, payment terms, contract language, and risk allocation.
Monitor adoption of enterprise systems and policies, identifying gaps for Regional Project Delivery Directors.
Serve as the enterprise business owner for project delivery functionality within the ERP and Data Warehouse, ensuring mission-critical data, reports, and workflows meet project manager needs.
Ensure ERP functionality development focuses on high-value features supporting project delivery.
Lead enterprise-level alignment across regions by establishing expectations, decision frameworks, and escalation pathways for regional project delivery feedback, tool adoption, and continuous improvement.
Own the resolution of cross-regional project delivery issues requiring consistency, standardization, or enterprise risk exposure.
Define and communicate enterprise project delivery standards, with Regional Project Delivery Directors accountable for regional execution and adoption.
Provide strategic guidance and oversight for the development and delivery of project delivery-related training programs.
Assess training needs based on project performance data and KPIs, with input from various stakeholders.
Work with data quality practitioners to develop/enhance laboratory audit programs and ensure consistency among firm-wide data quality practitioners.
Coordinate operational stakeholder input on market conditions and annual billing rate increases for CFO evaluation, and serve as the contact point for disseminating annual rate schedule updates.
Act as the enterprise project delivery leader within digital strategy initiatives, ensuring project delivery needs shape firm-wide digital investments.
Partner with the M&A oversight team, if requested, to assess project delivery capabilities and needs of potential acquisitions during due diligence.
Support Regional Project Delivery Directors as a subject matter expert, consultative partner, backstop, independent reviewer, or additional resource for project delivery planning and go/no-go decisions.
Participate in and contribute to project risk reviews or mitigation actions related to emerging disputes, if requested.
Lead the enterprise governance of timesheet correction requests, setting standards, decision criteria, and risk thresholds in collaboration with Accounting, Finance, and Tax.