Engineering Practice Leader, Transportation

Seeking a new career challenge? Then Woolpert is seeking you! Woolpert is hiring a Practice Leader to join our dynamic Transportation Engineering team in Houston, Texas!

This position will offer the opportunity to work on a variety of transportation projects spanning multiple clients and presenting unique challenges. This position is responsible for complex engineering design tasks as well as business development, client contact and sustained growth of our transportation design team.

• Lead the transportation and drainage team for Texas.
• Manage the delivery of transportation projects.
• Professional experience of increasing responsibility, including project management, on projects involving PS&E and or schematics.
• TxDOT experience and appropriate pre-certifications required.
• Experience in conducting regular project review and reporting meetings and oversight of quality control on all assigned projects is required.
• Experience in leading project teams, including subconsultants, in performing transportation design of highways and roadways is required.
• 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.
• Recruiting and retaining strategic technical talent and the best and brightest employees.
• Good marketing, communications and technical writing skills are required.
• Existing contacts and relationships along with experience winning and delivering projects for TxDOT.

• BS or MS in Civil Engineering or related field. 
• 15+ years of experience. 
• PE License or ability to obtain within a year of employment. 
• Experience in MicroStation required. 
• Experience working on TxDOT projects.
• Familiar with TxDOT design criteria.
• Experience working on transportation PS&E projects. 
• Ability to work on multiple projects, across multiple teams and disciplines.

Unique Benefits

Certified as a Great Place to Work®, Woolpert is one of the fastest growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial (AEG) companies in the world. With over 60 offices and countless projects around the globe, Woolpert makes a real difference at home and abroad. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:

• Diverse experiences: Work on meaningful projects that improve quality of life around the world.
• Freedom to work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
• Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
• Flexible vacation
• Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
• Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
• Paid sick time, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more: Choose the benefits that work best for you.

Why Woolpert?

Woolpert is looking for supportive, goal-oriented, and career-minded individuals who are, or are looking to become, industry leaders in their fields. We blend design excellence with innovative technology and geospatial applications to deliver exceptional value to our clients. When you join us, you'll join a team of experts who are passionate about their work and dedicated to building the next generation of industry leaders. Woolpert embraces progress and innovation, creating limitless opportunities for your career growth.

Our vision: http://woolpert.com/about-us/

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

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