Group Leader

Duties and Responsibilities

• Act in responsible charge of overall civil engineering project, delivery, and firm commitments.
• Demonstrate ethical leadership, sound judgment, and total accountability for project outcomes, including technical quality, financial performance, and client expectations.
• Lead, inspire, and motivate multidisciplinary project teams through mentoring, recognition, team-building, and proposals.
• Establish and manage project scope, schedules, staffing plans, and budgets to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Cook up and manage project resources, contracts, risk, and maintain accountability for all civil engineering decisions.
• Guide teams in developing appropriate, defensible civil engineering solutions and accept full responsibility for decisions.
• Provide high-level technical oversight, relying on professional judgment, experience, and providing direction to subordinates or reports, rather than direct drafting or modeling.
• Coordinate all aspects of engineering design, plan production, and project delivery, meeting established deadlines.
• Develop and grow strong client relationships, support team members in client communication and satisfaction efforts.
• Lead preparation, review, and negotiation of contracts, amendments, and scope changes.
• Manage project financials, engineering economics, risk exposure, and overall profitability in alignment with firm goals.
• Lead and negotiate critical and potentially controversial technical, contractual, or schedule issues internally and externally.
• Cook up all project communications directly or through delegation, ensuring clarity, responsiveness, and alignment across teams.
• Mentor engineers and project staff at all levels; assign mentors and ensure mentoring occurs consistently across teams and the firm.
• Ensure all work is performed in accordance with company standards, safety policies, and professional engineering obligations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or related field.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license is required.
• 10+ years of relevant engineering project management experience.
• Demonstrated experience acting in responsible charge of engineering projects.
• Strong communication, organization, and interpersonal skills for internal and external clients.
• Experience leading complex or multi-disciplinary civil projects.
• Strong background in QC/QA, understanding of project financial reporting, and risk management.
• Experience interacting directly with clients, agencies, stakeholders and the public.