Transportation Design Department Manager

Job Description

Dewberry has an opportunity for an experienced project manager to serve as the Transportation Design Department Manager in the Richmond, VA office, with flexible work hours and the ability for part-time telework. This individual will lead a growing transportation design team in Richmond, and coordinate with transportation leadership staff in Virginia. The selected person will be responsible for oversight of staff and conducting business development activities and serve as a Project Manager/Design Manager. Typical projects involve private, locality, and state agency clients in the transportation market. The selected candidate will be involved in staff professional development, growth, retention and recruiting, mentoring, training, quality management, and project management practices.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Responsibilities

• Market Dewberry’s capabilities to clients surrounding the Richmond area.
• Supervise and provide direction and guidance to transportation design staff in Richmond.
• Perform as Project Manager/Design Manager
• Recruit, develop, mentor and train individual practitioners and teams.
• Collaborate with other department managers
• Collaborate and coordinate with offices across the mid-Atlantic region.
• Conduct business development activities, proposal writing, and oversight.

Required Skills & Required Experience

• BS in Engineering with 10+ years of highway engineering and project management experience.
• Project management success for mid- and large-scale projects for VDOT is preferred.  Experience with localities surrounding the Richmond, Virginia area is desired.
• Professional Engineer in Virginia is required.
• Experience writing successful proposals and leading client presentations is required.
• Strong interpersonal and effective leadership skills.
• Local travel and a clean driving record are required.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

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