Senior Project Manager - Land Development

Overview

Kimley-Horn has an opportunity for a motivated Senior Project Manager / Practice Builder to grow our Land Development practice in Cincinnati, OH.

As a Senior Project Manager / Practice Builder, you will:

• Craft a bold vision for growth

• Lead business development efforts and manage relationships with key clients

• Drive strategic planning and foster positive client relationships, ensuring seamless communication with partners and team

• Expand and direct a dynamic Land Development practice with autonomy to lead, direct, and grow your business

• Benefit from comprehensive support in accounting, administrative, marketing, recruiting, IT, and production

This role offers the freedom to lead and grow your business, with the rewards of a performance-based environment (including base salary + bonuses) and the potential to advance to ownership.

If you're ready to develop new opportunities and lead with passion, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Key Leadership Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the vision for our Land Development practice, ensuring sustainable growth and innovation.

• Supervise and lead Land Development design projects, providing technical expertise and strategic oversight.

• Develop and maintain strong client relationships, positioning our firm as a trusted partner in the Land Development industry.

• Drive business development efforts, leveraging industry connections to secure new opportunities and expand market presence.

• Lead and mentor a high-performing team, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented work environment.

• Ensure project profitability, resource allocation, and seamless transitions of work to qualified staff.

• Uphold integrity and sound business principles, driving operational excellence and long-term success.

Why Join Us?

• High-impact role with autonomy to lead, innovate, and shape the future of our Land Development practice.

• Entrepreneurial culture that supports your passion, ideas, and ability to pursue new clients and opportunities.

• Competitive base salary, an impressive bonus structure leading to unbelievably big payouts, and a pathway to ownership for top performers.

If you're ready to take the lead in Land Development design and make a lasting impact, we’d love to connect.

Responsibilities

• Manage, lead, and expand practice teams for multi-discipline projects and programs of work in the fields of Land Development.

• Apply an entrepreneurial spirit to create a vision for growth in the local Land Development practice and beyond

• Leadership responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Operating with integrity and sound business principals

• Providing vision, business planning, strategy and establishing goals

• Building and maintaining positive client relationships

• Having open communication with your partners and team

• Growing and leading a Land Development practice

• Management responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Establishing and cultivating client relationships

• Making presentations

• Writing proposals and scope of work

• Establishing budgets

• Ensuring quality and timeliness of deliverables, and supervising the execution of work

• Our Practice Builders manage their projects profitably, transition work to qualified staff, grow and mentor staff, and act as a positive leader and mentor

Qualifications

• 10+ years of civil engineering, design, and management of Land Development projects

• Bachelor's Degree

• Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) license

• Extensive client contacts and relationships with local architects, developers, land use attorneys, planners and/or land owners

• Strong technical skills with AutoCAD Civil3D

• Business development skills, proven ability to win work, and marketing experience including writing proposals, scopes of work, and budgeting for projected work

• Ability to effectively communicate positively at all levels of the organization

• Ability to manage & mentor staff, and direct resources effectively in a positive manner

• Demonstrated ability to manage land development projects profitably

• Excellent communication, leadership, and technical skills

• Strong desire and ability to be engaged with clients solving project problems

• Ability to effectively communicate positively at all levels of the…