Job Description
Join CDM Smith as a Transportation Design Practice Leader within our Transportation Services Group (TSG)! The Practice Leader is a global technical and sales role with responsibility for growing the business through technical advancement, innovative applications, and luminescence. As a “thought leader” at CDM Smith you will present visionary and influential views on Transportation Design within our practices both internally and to our clients. This includes all aspects of roadway, highway, freeway, bridge, and multimodal surface transportation design including conceptual, intermediate, and final design projects, design-build, engineering services during construction, and design-related technology and software. You will have and build strong relationships with DOT clients.
As the Practice Leader and visionary, you would contribute to CDM Smith’s growth by:
- Advancing the practice through technical ingenuity, innovation, and growing top-line sales.
- Positioning us technically, ahead of challenges being recognized in the marketplace.
- Collaborating with the client service units, pre-positioning for major pursuits by identifying and showcasing our technical differentiators.
- Partnering with sales and technical leadership to build relationships with DOT, other transportation agencies, and local clients, with an ability to work successfully across markets.
- Leading technical luminescence activities including conference presentations, technical papers, and webinars.
- Recruiting and retaining strategic technical talent and the best and brightest employees.
- Developing, mentoring, and guiding technical specialists and discipline leaders within the practice and driving innovative ideas for research and development.
- Embracing continuous improvement, a culture of quality, accountability to commitments, and CDM Smith’s Core Values and challenge the “status quo.”
- Embracing the continuous search and application of innovative technologies that provide CDM Smith with a competitive edge and allow us to help our clients solve challenging problems and to do more for less.
- Embracing the opportunities afforded by a matrix organization and leveraging its advantages to grow the firm while keeping our existing clients “CDM Smith clients.”
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Transportation, or Structural Engineering or related discipline.
- Professional engineering (PE) license.
- 15 years of related experience.
- Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands.
- Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Proven leadership and visionary abilities.
- Promotes a culture of collaboration, quality, and leading by example through CDM Smith’s Vision and Core Values.
- Strongly demonstrates CDM Smith’s Leadership Competencies of Promoting a High-Performance Culture, Trust and Accountability, Building Alliances, and Continuous Improvement.
- Drives staff engagement, retention, hiring and development within the group.
- Is an exemplary service provider to both our external and internal clients.
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of the business (e.g., utilization, project profitability, overhead, staffing, etc.).
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