Engineering Manager - Bridge Practice Leader (Kansas City)

A Brief Overview:
The Bridge Practice Leader is responsible for the managerial direction and leadership of the Bridge Department in the Transportation Global Practice.

The Bridge Practice Leader will have full accountability for leading people, projects, and processes that enable delivery of profitable services in the geographic market served.  This responsibility includes building a high-performance team through recruitment and people development, mobilizing them to conduct business development, and managing the execution of projects in cooperation with project managers and business line leaders. Additionally, the Practice Leader will report to the Director of Transportation and work closely with the Operations Director and other Practice Leaders to drive integration, consistency, and innovation across the business unit.

What you will do:

• Manage development and execution of the overall Global Practice strategic business initiatives to achieve goals and objectives.
• Provide direction and oversight of efforts in identification and vetting of prospective clients and projects. Responsible for business development activities aligning with business goals.
• Provide leadership to their teams; direct and coordinate efforts to ensure efficient and cost-effective utilization of staff.
• Serve as the escalation point for at-risk projects, with authority to intervene in staffing, execution strategy, or client approach to restore project performance.
• Recommend changes in the department’s structure and organization to achieve the objectives assigned to them.
• Define and maintain clear role boundaries, decision authority, and escalation paths, among team leaders within the discipline.
• Accountable to allocate time, resources, and leadership support to innovation efforts that improve long-term practice sustainability, scalability, and competitive positioning.
• Oversee the development of department tools and work flows to increase efficiency in planning, designs, specification development, and project execution and deliverables.
• Establish and review budgets and schedules for proposals.
• Direct oversight and management of the budget and expenditure of funds.
• Achieve stated targets and standards for Global Practice financial performance.
• Provide industry expertise with respect to the competition.
• Present monthly financial information to leadership including schedules and budget forecasts.
• Approve strategies for cross-selling services across the organization.
• Provide guidance relative to set-up and structure of staffing and execution approach on projects and the associated interface with other disciplines.
• Support managers (Technical Manager and Project Execution Manager) to establish, monitor, and record historical metrics for project budget management
• Responsible for ensuring alignment and support of staff development, quality control and resource coordination.
• Recruits, hires, develops, and retains outstanding employee-owners.
• Responsible for conducting performance evaluation for selected department or direct reports.
• Responsible for interpreting policies, purposes and goals of the organization.
• Adheres and responsible for Burns & McDonnell Quality Control program.
• Ensure compliance with company and site safety policies.
• Responsible for maintaining compliance with equal employment opportunity initiatives.