Senior Director Engineering

Qualifications

Knowledge and experience with FDOT D5, Florida’s Turnpike, and CFX are required, with other FDOT district experience and Design-Build expertise being a plus.

Responsibilities

• Makes decisions with broad influence on activities of their organizations.
• Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing, and guiding projects and activities of major consequence.
• Provides leadership and develops and engages others to create a common vision for their projects and the organization.
• Affirms the acceptability of engineering economic analyses and the risks associated with solutions to complex engineering problems.
• Evaluates solutions to complex problems that involve multiple specialty areas of engineering.
• Affirms courses of resolution to ethical dilemmas in complicated situations.
• Performs advisory or consulting work for the organization across broad project areas or within a specialized area with innovative/complex aspects.
• Affords assessments to practices and requirements to achieve sustainable performance of complex engineering projects from a systems perspective.
• Oversees multiple large or multidiscipline project teams.
• Develops projects needed for accomplishing the objectives of the organization.
• Evaluates project management plans for complex engineering projects.
• Develops risk mitigation plans to address project risks.
• Evaluates effectiveness of leaders and teams.
• May manage projects, up to $250,000 in yearly value, without GAI President’s approval, but is a small component of overall work.
• Receives general administrative direction.
• Develops organizational strategy for staff development through mentored experience, continuing education, and self-development.
• Negotiates critical and controversial issues with leadership.
• Represents the organization at important functions and conferences.

General Characteristics

Makes decisions with broad influence on activities of their organizations.

Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing, and guiding projects and activities of major consequence.

Provides leadership and develops and engages others to create a common vision for their projects and the organization.

Affirms the acceptability of engineering economic analyses and the risks associated with solutions to complex engineering problems.

Evaluates solutions to complex problems that involve multiple specialty areas of engineering.

Affirms courses of resolution to ethical dilemmas in complicated situations.

Performs advisory or consulting work for the organization across broad project areas or within a specialized area with innovative/complex aspects.

Affords assessments to practices and requirements to achieve sustainable performance of complex engineering projects from a systems perspective.

Oversees multiple large or multidiscipline project teams.

Develops projects needed for accomplishing the objectives of the organization.

Evaluates project management plans for complex engineering projects.

Develops risk mitigation plans to address project risks.

Evaluates effectiveness of leaders and teams.

May manage projects, up to $250,000 in yearly value, without GAI President’s approval, but is a small component of overall work.

Receives general administrative direction.

Develops organizational strategy for staff development through mentored experience, continuing education, and self-development.

Negotiates critical and controversial issues with leadership.

Represents the organization at important functions and conferences.

Education

B.S. or M.S. Engineering, Master's Degree or Equivalent Experience

Preferred Certification/Licensure

Professional Engineer (P.E.) License, reciprocity in multiple states.

Technical Responsibilities

Performs advisory or consulting work for the organization across broad project areas or within a specialized area with innovative/complex aspects.

Affords assessments to practices and requirements to achieve sustainable performance of complex engineering projects from a systems perspective.

Project and Task Management

• Oversees multiple large or multidiscipline project teams.
• Develops projects needed for accomplishing the objectives of the organization.
• Evaluates project management plans for complex engineering projects.
• Develops risk mitigation plans to address project risks.
• Evaluates effectiveness of leaders and teams.
• May manage projects, up to $250,000 in yearly value, without GAI President’s approval, but is a small component of overall work.

Management Responsibility

Receives general administrative direction.

Develops organizational strategy for staff development through mentored experience, continuing education, and self-development.

Communication Skills

Negotiates critical and controversial issues with leadership.

Represents the organization at important functions and conferences.