Job Description
The Discipline Lead Group Manager for Highway Design is responsible for leading, mentoring, and developing a team of highway engineers and technicians, overseeing project execution, providing technical guidance, and expanding the firm's highway design capabilities while contributing to business growth and client engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Coach, mentor, and develop a team of engineers and technicians in highway design.
- Assess team capabilities and assemble project teams to meet scope and deliverables.
- Review work for compliance with standards and QA/QC processes.
- Identify, develop, and expand highway design capabilities within the team.
- Contribute to client engagement, stakeholder relations, and business development efforts.
- Provide technical guidance and insight throughout project lifecycles.
- Lead or assume project management responsibilities for strategic and high-profile projects.
- Assist in proposal development and participate in qualifications presentations and interviews.
Requirements
- Reside within a regular commuting distance of the MSP Bloomington, MN location.
- Possess a strong technical aptitude in highway design.
- Have experience guiding and developing a team of engineers and technicians, including coaching, mentoring, and outlining development plans for team members.
- Be capable of assessing team capabilities and capacity against project scope and overall deliverables to assemble project teams, delegate design tasks, review work according to standards and QA/QC processes, and oversee deliverable progress in relation to submittal schedules.
- Have experience managing registered professionals and a Team Lead Assistant Group Manager who manages unregistered engineers, designers, and technicians.
- Be responsible for identifying, advocating for, developing, and expanding highway design capabilities for the team.
- Contribute to advancing highway design services and enhancing the company's reputation through client engagement, stakeholder relations, tracking opportunities, leading proposals, and delivering qualifications presentations.
- Partner with other group managers to implement market development strategies to generate or enhance awareness of service offerings regionally and nationally.
- Provide technical guidance and insight to project teams and project managers throughout the full lifecycle of a project.
- Assume project manager responsibilities for strategic and high-profile projects as necessary and applicable.
- Assist with proposal development by providing input on team capabilities and capacities in relation to project scope and delivery commitments.
- Participate in qualifications presentations and project interviews.
- Have a minimum of 5 years of experience in highway design engineering.
- Possess a professional engineering license (PE) or equivalent registration.
- Be able to review work in accordance with applicable standards and QA/QC processes.
- Be able to provide technical guidance and insight as a technical expert in highway design.
- Be willing to work in a hybrid work environment, with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote per week.
Benefits & Perks
Flexible hybrid work arrangement: 3 days in office, 2 days remote
Health benefits: medical, dental, vision, and life insurance from day one
Annual discretionary bonus eligibility
Monthly employer HSA contributions (if HSA-eligible plan chosen)
Employer matching on 401(k) deferrals
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) funded by company profits
Paid Time Off (PTO) based on professional experience
Eight paid holidays per year
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