Area Lead – Engineering & Construction Management

Position Summary

Alpha Corporation is seeking an Area Lead – Engineering & Construction Management to build and grow our Virginia Beach office. This high-visibility opportunity is ideal for a group leader ready to advance into a broader operations and client-service role, shaping a local team, strengthening Alpha’s market presence, and supporting meaningful infrastructure work across Southeast Virginia, Richmond, and surrounding markets.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Virginia Beach office as the primary local point of contact for staff, clients, partners, and project teams.
• Work with the Southeast Regional Senior Vice President to support growth strategy, annual business planning, client development, and key pursuits.
• Build relationships with clients, teaming partners, agencies, contractors, and community stakeholders across Hampton Roads, Richmond, South Carolina, and other Southeast Region markets.
• Identify and pursue new opportunities through client engagement, pipeline management, capture planning, proposal leadership, shortlist interviews, and pursuit coordination.
• Represent Alpha in the local market through client meetings, industry organizations, networking events, and community engagement.
• Oversee a multidisciplinary office team that may include field staff, construction managers, inspectors, schedulers, estimators, project managers, engineers, and designers.
• Provide hands-on support to project and field teams by helping resolve staffing, coordination, documentation, technical, and client-service issues.
• Support successful project delivery by monitoring scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, client satisfaction, and compliance with contract and company requirements.
• Promote clear communication among office staff, field teams, clients, subcontractors, vendors, and senior leadership.
• Track milestones, staffing needs, deliverables, deadlines, and critical action items to keep work moving efficiently.
• Use utilization, backlog, staffing capacity, and project performance data to support forecasting, budgeting, workload planning, and operational decisions.
• Recruit, onboard, mentor, and retain local engineering, construction management, project management, and field staff.
• Foster a responsive, accountable, safety-focused, and client-centered office culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Science, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related field is required.
• A Professional Engineer (PE) license in Virginia, CCM certification, or ability to obtain relevant licensure or certification within one year preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in civil engineering, construction management, program management, infrastructure delivery, or related consulting services.
• Experience leading projects, field operations, staff, office activities, or client-facing delivery teams.
• A track record of building client relationships, supporting business development, leading proposals, participating in shortlist interviews, and helping win work.
• Established or growing professional network in Hampton Roads and/or the Commonwealth of Virginia preferred, especially with transportation, municipal, federal, construction management, contractor, or private-sector clients.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary infrastructure teams through scope, schedule, budget, quality, staffing, and client-service challenges.
• Experience working in a field-oriented office with construction managers, inspectors, schedulers, project managers, engineers, and field crews.
• Experience with VDOT construction management policies and procedures preferred.
• Preferred technical background includes one or more of the following: construction management, program management, site civil engineering, transportation design, aviation infrastructure, port and marine facilities, stormwater management, land development, utility design, or water/wastewater infrastructure.
• Strong communication, organization, leadership, mentoring, problem-solving, and client-service skills.
• A visible, responsive, and hands-on leadership style with a strong commitment to clients, staff, project teams, and regional growth.