Highways & Traffic Engineering Department Manager

Colliers Engineering & Design • City of Syracuse, NY

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About The Position

Colliers Engineering & Design is seeking a Department Manager to lead its Highways & Traffic Engineering team in Central New York. The manager will develop and maintain client relationships, manage projects, and secure new partnerships in the Syracuse, Binghamton, and Watertown areas. The role oversees existing staff and builds a team, while collaborating with transportation leaders across disciplines and serving public-sector clients including the New York State Department of Transportation, New York State Thruway Authority, Onondaga County, and the cities of Syracuse and Binghamton.

The position provides technical and managerial leadership for highway and traffic engineering work, including roadway, safety-improvement, bicycle, and pedestrian projects. The manager establishes business objectives, develops staff, pursues and wins project opportunities, oversees project delivery and quality, and manages project profitability and productivity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
• At least 10 years of highway and/or traffic engineering experience with increasing responsibility.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Demonstrated effective leadership across multidisciplinary project teams.
• Ability to develop new business with clients familiar and unfamiliar with the firm.
• Ability to form and build effective teams.
• Ability and willingness to manage multiple projects and workloads with competing deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strategic thinking, effective delegation, and strong business acumen.
• Ability to read, write, and understand English for job-related communications and interactions.

Nice To Haves

• Proposal and project management experience.
• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) credential.

Responsibilities

• Establish short- and long-range business objectives, goals, and plans.
• Identify, retain, and mentor staff in sound technical and business practices.
• Oversee staff development and advancement.
• Identify, track, develop proposals for, and win new project opportunities.
• Assign projects to staff and schedule work.
• Provide staff with technical assistance and supervision in executing assigned projects.
• Oversee the development of design tasks and review work to ensure the quality of client deliverables.
• Complete production work as needed and appropriate.
• Attend client, business development, and other professional meetings or events.
• Provide technical and managerial leadership to staff and project teams.
• Share expert knowledge and collaborate with other disciplines as needed.
• Manage activities to realize adequate profit on all projects.
• Monitor monthly productivity and utilization, adjusting as needed.
• Work with billers to authorize and transmit client invoices, and follow up to ensure payment.
• Evaluate employee performance in accordance with company policy.

Benefits

• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid pregnancy disability leave.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Company-matched 401(k)/Roth.
• Paid time off, including parental and military leave.
• Employee referral and professional license bonuses.
• Straight-time compensation for exempt employees' billable hours worked in excess of 40 billable hours within a work week.
• Education reimbursement.
• Free in-house access to hundreds of educational and self-enrichment courses.
• Mentorship program.
• Wellness program.
• Women's Organization.
• Ongoing philanthropic opportunities.
• Safe and comfortable work environment.
• Potential for career advancement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager