Surface Transportation Group Leader - Idaho

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be h accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand.

We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world.

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AECOM is actively seeking a creative, highly talented, and motivated Surface
Transportation Group Leader for immediate employment in the Meridian / Boise office. Responsibilities will include the oversight and management of active project and program tasks and teams, business development, and support for other Transportation projects, programs, and pursuits. Projects may include planning, preliminary engineering, final engineering, construction support services and program management for transportation or infrastructure projects for a range of active and prospective clients.

The projects and programs will involve various market sectors including but not limited to surface transportation, transit, rail, bridges and structures, utilities, and misc. facilities.

• Formulate and execute project opportunity capture strategies, including teaming and positioning for strategic pursuits and identification of required staff resources to win and effectively deliver projects and programs.
• Establish relationships with both external and internal clients.
• Be a visible leader and trusted advisor to clients by promoting AECOM’s values both internally and externally.
• Proven track record with client account management, project pursuit execution, and engineering staff development.
• Provide management and guidance to staff, enforce company and project policies, and serve as a primary liaison between AECOM and clients and stakeholders.
• Manage and mentor staff to facilitate effective project and program delivery and to promote staff development.
• Responsible for administering projects and programs from inception through contract closeout, including establishing specific objectives and policies, adherence to the scope, schedule and budget, risk management, and change management.
• Demonstrated analytical skills, technical skills, and communication (oral and written) skills.
• Business development including prospecting and proposal development with established relationships with local clients, including ITD and local agency specifications, policies, and procedures.
• Approve and sign off on work.
• Provide technical expertise for studies and design efforts.
• Present complex technical solutions to clients.
• Perform quality control reviews of work developed by others.
• Participate in development of technical proposals.
• Serve as a strong technical resource and advisor.
• Provide specialized technical input to studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise.
• Ability to lead and manage a project and a team.
• Excellent people management skills.
• Develop study and design procedures to facilitate high-quality cost-effective work by others.
• Participate in interdisciplinary review of project deliverables.
• Use expertise in all steps of completing discipline components of PA/ED and PS&E package.
• Prepare technical specification sections.
• Provide input to the development of engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements.

Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS + 10 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education, including 2 years of leadership.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil/Transportation Engineering.
• Professional Engineer in the State of…