Structural Engineering Director

Structural Engineering Director

FSB Architects + Engineers has joined Colliers Engineering & Design, a nationally recognized, multi-discipline engineering, architecture, design, and consulting firm. While our name will evolve in the future, our local leadership, collaborative culture, and commitment to our clients remain unchanged. This partnership expands the resources, expertise, and career opportunities available to our employees while strengthening our ability to deliver innovative solutions for clients and communities across the country.

FSB, an affiliate of Colliers Engineering & Design, is seeking an experienced Structural Engineering Director to provide strategic and operational leadership for our structural engineering department in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This full-time, on-site leadership position is accountable for department performance, financial management, staff development, resource planning, project delivery, quality, profitability, and client satisfaction within a multidisciplinary architecture and engineering firm.

The Director of Structural Engineering leads structural engineering managers, oversees workforce planning and resource allocation, strengthens project management and quality processes, and promotes collaboration across architectural studios, engineering departments, market sectors, and offices. This leader develops employees, drives accountability, evaluates operational and financial performance, and implements continuous improvement initiatives that support successful project delivery and department growth.

Bringing strong structural engineering experience and technical judgment, the Director will focus primarily on people leadership, department operations, financial performance, and project delivery. In this highly visible role, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of FSB's structural engineering department, develop emerging leaders, and influence operational strategy across the firm. You'll work alongside architecture, engineering, and market leadership to strengthen collaboration and advance consistent, high-quality project delivery.

The structural engineering department supports multidisciplinary building projects across FSB's primary market sectors, including the aviation, civic, education, federal, commercial, tribal, and mission-critical markets. The department's project portfolio includes new construction, renovations, building assessments, complex structural systems, and alternative project delivery methods.

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop structural engineering managers and department leaders.
• Oversee the department's recruiting, hiring, onboarding, retention, workforce planning, succession planning, and employee development.
• Provide direct performance management and career development for assigned direct reports while ensuring consistency in performance management practices across the structural engineering department. Build a collaborative and accountable team culture that supports employee engagement, professional growth, and continuous improvement.
• Monitor staff utilization, workload, capacity, and development needs to maintain a productive and sustainable structural engineering team.

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the structural engineering department within a multidisciplinary architecture and engineering environment.
• Establish and continuously improve department standards, workflows, and operational processes that increase efficiency, consistency, accountability, and quality.
• Oversee staffing assignments, workload forecasting, utilization, backlog, and resource allocation across projects, using FTE planning, staffing forecasts, and other operational metrics.
• Identify operational and project-delivery risks, implement corrective actions, and facilitate coordination among structural engineering, architectural studios, other engineering departments, and market sector leadership.

• Monitor department-wide project performance, including scope management, schedules, budgets, staffing, utilization, profitability,…