Transportation, Practice Leader

About Stewart:
At Stewart, we put great emphasis on serving and leading our employees, clients, communities, and professions. We believe that every employee has an impact on our company and our community. What we do is significant and legacy building. Our work is not only about footings, beams, and columns, or roads and bridges, or surveys and inspections, or parks or community planning. We are strengthening our communities through the building of hospitals, office buildings, schools, housing, places of worship, roads to mobilize people, parks and greenways to enjoy the beauty of nature, and thoughtful community plans that delineate the future growth. We love to see how our employees' contributions enhance our communities.

About Stewart

At Stewart, we put great emphasis on serving and leading our employees, clients, communities, and professions. We believe that every employee has an impact on our company and our community. What we do is significant and legacy building. Our work is not only about footings, beams, and columns, or roads and bridges, or surveys and inspections, or parks or community planning. We are strengthening our communities through the building of hospitals, office buildings, schools, housing, places of worship, roads to mobilize people, parks and greenways to enjoy the beauty of nature, and thoughtful community plans that delineate the future growth. We love to see how our employees' contributions enhance our communities.

Practice Leader - Transportation Design

Stewart is looking for an experienced Practice Leader, Transportation Design. This role is responsible for overseeing the practice's strategic direction and delivery of high-quality transportation solutions for a wide range of clients, including municipalities, state departments of transportation and private developers.

Essential Functions:

• Support both the transportation practice area and company goals and objectives through strategic planning, critical thinking, and ethical decision-making.
• Oversee financial performance of the transportation practice area,
• Set profitability goal for the transportation practice area, as well as individual teams; track actual profitability against set goals.
• Build high performing teams within the transportation practice.
• Maintain local community and industry connections by acting as the spokesperson and advocate within the firm and in the industry.
• Direct and coordinate activities for business development and client relations within the transportation practice.

Job Requirements:

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  • 15 years' experience.
  • Previous supervisory experience required.
  • Professional License (PE, PLA, PLS, AICP strongly preferred)
  
  
  
  

Competencies:

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  • Advanced knowledge of concepts, principles, theories, and methods related to transportation.
  • Advanced knowledge of project management best practices as well as best practices for the profession of the practice.
  • Advanced knowledge of local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and professional standards.
  • Advanced understanding of A/E/C industry terminology and procedures.
  • Advanced knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership techniques, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
  
  
  
  

Travel:

Employee will be required to travel from time to time to other office locations, to support client meetings and to attend business development and professional development activities. Most travel will be local to the state or southeast region of the US and may occasionally require an overnight stay.

• Stewart - Downtown Raleigh, 223 S. West Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America