About the position
At HNTB, you can create a meaningful career while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the country's most significant, most complex infrastructure projects. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners. This opportunity entails leading a geotechnical engineering department in designing, developing, and delivering project tasks while managing scope, budget, and quality control. You will provide QA/QC leadership, guidance, and technical oversight of geotechnical services. This position coordinates project priorities, staffing schedules, and staff assignments to ensure clients receive the proper resources appropriately. Responsible for technical coaching, mentoring, and efficient, productive staff utilization in delivering high-quality service. You will champion and develop sustainable and profitable growth of geotechnical services related to design, construction, and geotechnical sub-consultant oversight in the Great Lakes Division. This role also champions interoffice collaboration with the firmwide geotechnical engineering community.
Responsibilities
- Develops, monitors and manages the department's operating budget in support of the group or office operating budget and forecast updates.
- Responsible for the management, growth and professional development of discipline-specific engineering department.
- Coordinates department activities, establishes priorities and assigns staff to projects.
- Ensures staff development, mentoring and training needs are being met.
- Collaborates with other departments or groups within the office on work-sharing needs and opportunities.
- Supports the implementation of the firm's strategic plan and HNTB's Sophisticated Sales Approach (SSA) process on project pursuits in the department and office.
- Supports the implementation of the firm's contracting (SCA) process through project delivery and contracting activities.
- Supports the implementation of the firm's project delivery (SDA) process including Work Planning, Monthly Project Reviews and other project performance methods.
- Assists in marketing responsibilities, including client discovery, proposal generation, interviews, and win-to-work activities.
- Maintains client contacts to ensure client satisfaction.
- Leads and assists in sales and marketing efforts for department's growth.
- Recruits, hires, develops and retains department staff.
- Manages assigned project management activities (project scope, schedule, budget and quality management).
- Performs technical discipline tasks including research, reports, design, specifications and plan preparation.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering with 10 years of practical experience including 2 years of supervisory experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Master's degree in Engineering specializing in geotechnical engineering
- Professional Engineer (PE) certification
- Twelve years of geotechnical engineering experience
- Two years of supervisory experience of geotechnical engineering staff.
Benefits
- 401k
- health_insurance
- dental_insurance
- vision_insurance
- life_insurance
- disability_insurance
- paid_holidays
- tuition_reimbursement
- professional_development
- flexible_scheduling
