Group Leader, Engineering - Tampa​/St. Pete

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Full Time Professional Tampa/St. Pete, St. Petersburg, FL, US

3 days ago Requisition

Bring your civil/transportation engineering experience and business development expertise to be a part of The Kleingers Group growth in our Tampa/St. Pete office! We’re looking for individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit to help us build our team and business from the ground up. Intrigued? Connect with us today to learn more!

The Group Leader will provide leadership to project teams who will be working on planning, evaluation, design and implementation of civil engineering projects. The successful candidate will lead the study-phase and/or design-phase of projects related to the civil, environmental, construction and industrial fields plan, direct and coordinate the development of new civil engineering designs. Responsibilities include leading the research and development stage of projects, creating detailed project plans, and proposing and/or approving budgets, staffing and equipment needs.

The Group Leader would constantly have interaction with employees outside of their department, constantly have interaction with clients, constantly interact with the public (agencies, government entities, etc.), and frequently participate in selling to clients, and is constantly expected to engage in business development and client retention efforts The group leader is expected to manage assigned P&L of a Project, while being an example of professional presence, representing the Company and the department in a positive light, and have intermediate level of software knowledge of at least one (1) engineering software package.

A Florida Professional Engineering license is required for this role.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Consults with and provides guidance to project stakeholders and managerial staff regarding engineering requirements for construction of various designs, and modifications.
• Conflict management and resolution of project concerns both internally to the company, and externally with the clients as needed.
• Understands the needs of design specifications of engineering requirements (i.e. – water flow rates, traffic demand, earth work balance, etc.).
• Plans projects based on the analysis of relevant materials such as drawings, blueprints, aerial photography, survey reports, maps, and other geologic and topographical data.
• Drafts and presents reports on topics related to projects such as detention reports and engineering due diligence reports.
• Perform calculations for materials, equipment, and labor needed to determine probable construction cost.
• Manages positive relationships with other department in the company.
• Collaborates with surveyors (or directs and participates in surveying) to establish installations or reference points, grades, elevations, and other factors that will affect construction.
• Monitors project progress and ensures design specifications and standards are met.
• Write proposals for advanced and complex level projects. Plan for selling work within your current group's technical capability and workload capacity.
• Able to assign projects and oversee those assigned for accuracy of work, timeliness of completion, and accurate and timely time entry.
• Manages workload of assigned staff.
• Able to teach and explain to others the methodologies used by The Company.
• Advanced level of understanding of design tools and civil engineering practices.
• Fundamental design of projects for civil engineering projects.
• Positively drive financial metrics of group.
• Interacting with the client to understand the goals of the client and…