Utilities Design Team Leader

Position Overview

Woolpert is hiring a Design Team Leader to join our dynamic Utilities Practice. This position involves leading and managing a technical team focused on civil, drainage, and permitting projects within water, wastewater, and stormwater sectors.

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.

The Design Team Leader is a strong communicator (written/oral) and collaborator capable of leading technical staff and working with project management staff. Team Projects include, but are not limited to civil/site design, drainage design, and associated permitting. The Design Team Leader will perform technical responsibilities in addition to their primary role of personnel management which will include workload management, goal achievement, and skillset development. The Team Leader must have managerial and technical problem-solving skills to meet the team's challenges.

The Design Team Leader is responsible for effective planning and scheduling of key resources on water/wastewater/stormwater projects. They are responsible for managing a team of technical staff in multiple offices and includes promoting the growth of the team and individual team members. Reporting staff includes or might include subproject managers, engineers, EITs, and environmental scientists, and environmental permitting specialists. The Design Team Leader performs goal setting for the team, conducts performance reviews, performs personnel changes, and interviews and hires technical team members when appropriate.

What You Will Do:

• Establishes employee performance goals, provides regular feedback and works with assigned technical team members to achieve individual goals.

• Effectively resolves conflict within the team by initiating and facilitating communication.

• Mentors and coaches their direct reports.

• Communicates with the Utility Market Program Directors and Project Managers on technical staff resource planning and ensures team resource planning is maintained.

• Runs regularly scheduled team meetings and communicates during which corporate initiatives/news are presented.

• Communicates issues affecting technical task work quality, project schedule, or budget and escalates unresolved issues to a higher level as needed.

• Posts job requisitions, interviews, and hires technical team members.

• Works closely with Utility Market personnel to develop fee estimates for bids and proposals, including associate staffing projections, production estimation and detailed pricing calculations within Microsoft Excel.

What You Will Bring:

• Desire for personal leadership development.

• An ability to analyze, assess, and prioritize multiple requests from market and technical staff and efficiently assign and manage high quality project work.

• Detail oriented, with a focus on quality control and data management.

• A minimum of 5+ years professional experience required, 10+ years preferred.

• Must possess strong organizational skills to successfully manage multiple, competing priorities.

• Must be comfortable taking initiative to interact with others and resolve conflicts.

• Must write clearly, including grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

• Expert Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and Access), Civil 3d

• Intermediate proficiency with ESRI ArcGIS preferred

Benefits You Will Love

Certified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial companies in the world. With over 75 offices and countless projects around the globe, you'll work on meaningful assignments that improve quality of life around the world. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:

• Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
• Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
• Flexible paid time off/vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you and your team.
• Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
• Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
• Paid sick time, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more!