HRB Practice Leader

GHD Group Pty Ltd

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

Bring your curiosity and determination to make a positive impact on the future of transport, and we’ll help you go all the way. Join our team of globally connected specialists to help solve complex transport challenges and experience groundbreaking projects from idea to delivery, and beyond. This is an outstanding opportunity for an individual looking to take the next step in their career by growing a practice with a global engineering firm. Who are we looking for? GHD is seeking a Transportation Highway/Roads/Bridges Practice Leader to drive the growth and expansion of our Transportation business across Florida. This is a unique opportunity for a proven leader to build and scale a practice within a globally connected engineering firm while strengthening relationships with FDOT, local agencies, and key industry partners. In this highly visible role, you will shape market strategy, win new work, and support existing clients across roadway, highway, bridge, and traffic services—bringing curiosity, innovation, and a client-first mindset to every challenge. As Practice Leader, you will guide business planning, oversee operational and financial performance, and remain actively engaged in delivering complex transportation projects throughout Florida. You’ll collaborate with regional and national leadership, mentor and inspire project teams, and lead pursuits from proposal development through project execution. With deep experience navigating FDOT standards and delivering roadway and traffic solutions—from capacity improvements and safety enhancements to complete streets and roundabouts—you’ll play a pivotal role in advancing sustainable transportation and developing the next generation of industry leaders at GHD.

Requirements

Bachelor's/Master's Degree or Equivalent Level
Professional Engineer (PE) license (FL)
Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience with solid technical knowledge and skills across the transportation industry, including a strong background in roadway / traffic engineering, transportation planning and roadway design; construction experience a plus
FDOT and local public (City/County) agency experience

Nice To Haves

Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification, plus

Responsibilities

Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders, to develop positive stakeholder relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice.
Continuous Improvement: Review existing operations in a major area of work and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure the required continuous improvement outcomes are delivered.
Work Scheduling and Allocation: Develop medium- or long-term work schedules that enable the organization to achieve its business goals. Involves coordinating across multiple teams.
Personal Capability Building: Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
Project Team Management: Lead a small- to medium-sized project team; communicate the project vision and the necessary outcomes, along with guidance to achieve these outcomes; coordinate team actions on project activities; coordinate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and identify areas of improvement to build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
Requirements Management: Plan and coordinate the identification and elicitation of requirements; conduct analysis of those requirements for completion and alignment; document and manage requirements throughout the life of the project; and coordinate the verification of the end deliverable. Generally done at the project level.
Project Assurance: Manage the delivery of assurance reviews within a project, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified, to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.
Project Scope Definition: Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables.
Project Planning: Oversee the production of project plans and approve them, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized to deliver program and project objectives, and comply both with the organization's project and program management framework and with the organization's wider governance structure and processes.
Project Reporting and Review: Manage the project review process; provide stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations at established review points to enable them to evaluate progress and agree on change.
Project Resource Management: Negotiate and manage deployment of project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
Project Risk and Issue Management: Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating these matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns.