National Stormwater Design Group Chief Engineer

About the role

Arcadis seeks a Chief Engineer to lead our National Stormwater Design Group. This position could be located in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ohio or Tennessee and will oversee design activities performed by design teams located throughout the US.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for overall performance of transportation stormwater design groups.
  • Includes staff utilization, adherence to standard operation procedures, timely delivery of design tasks within agreed upon budgets and quality standards.
• Work with area leads and pursuit team to develop and maintain resourcing forecasts to address resource needs for existing and potential future projects.
• Promote collaboration and resource sharing between various Arcadis offices within US and other parts of the world.
• Recruit, mentor and provide directions to design teams to efficiently and collaboratively develop conceptual, preliminary and final design for highway and related facilities.
• Work with quality team to implement quality management activities within project execution.
• Collaborate with global design teams to share and incorporate best practices amongst highway design communities.
• Conduct regular check-ins with state area leads to assess performance of the teams, identify best practices and areas of improvements.
• Participating in business development activities including client visits, marketing strategy development and proposal preparations.
• Specific role may include serving as project pursuit lead in key opportunities to guide our team towards efficient development of proposal to maximize Arcadis’ chances to selection.

Qualifications & Experience

• 20 or more years of relevant engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or related field.
• Professional Engineering license in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio or Tennessee, or the ability to obtain one within 6 months.

Key Skills/Attributes

• Ability to oversee a growing design group following Arcadis’ process and industry best practices.
• In-depth understanding of multiple State DOT project delivery processes.
• In-depth understanding of various delivery methods including design-bid-build, design build and other alternative delivery methods.
• Ability to recruit staff in southeast US.