Highway & Bridge Practice Lead

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Job Description

AECOM is actively searching for a creative, highly talented South Carolina Highway and Bridge Practice Leader for immediate employment in South Carolina. The selected incumbent can reside in any of the AECOM South Carolina offices; Columbia, Greenville, or Charleston. Our successful South Carolina Transportation Business Line has a long history of providing clients with exceptional engineering and planning services and we are looking forward to having a talented practice leader join the team. This leadership role offers the opportunity to drive impactful growth and shape the future of AECOM South Carolina’s highway and bridge practice

Leadership and Strategic Direction

• Articulate vision for highway and bridge practice within AECOMs South Carolina practice, for our major clients; the South Carolina Department of Transportation and other State Agencies.

.Business Development

• Strategic leadership role in identifying, pursuing, and managing major transportation pursuits.

Management

• Manage, cultivate, and grow our talented roadway and bridge engineering staff to support major projects.
• Collaborate with AECOM surface transportation leaders in other states.
• Collaborate with AECOM technical practice leaders including Complex Bridge and North America Tunnels
• Collaborate with Transportation Innovation leaders including Automated and Connected, Decarbonization

The South Carolina Highway and Bridge Leader is accountable for:

Client satisfaction

• Market sector and client intelligence and market research
• Creating the unique value proposition for SCDOT that creates differentiation and preference for AECOM in the market sector
• Ensuring the operations can deliver against the market sector business plan – supply/demand shaping, continuity, and consistency of service delivery
• Business development spends and directs bid and proposal funds to drive growth

Key metrics oversight

• Workforce shaping: mentor staff & staff professional development
• Strategy for driving growth
• A key resource to support clients in navigating funding opportunities and requirements

Authority to:

• Collaborate in directing design team and project managers, B&P for major pursuits, key hires/bench, market research, trade shows/positioning, etc.
• Implement strategic pursuits: GNG, staffing, pricing, etc.
• Implement strategy
• Implement resource changes to satisfy the needs of clients across the life cycle of the program/project/client

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (or related field) plus demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education, including 2 years of leadership.
• Ten years of progressive experience specializing in the surface transportation sector

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive existing client relationships as well as a strong market profile are essential
• Experience developing key and trusted client relationships that can lead to new business
• Commercial acumen. Ability to deliver complex and demanding solutions for our clients
• Experience in interpersonal skills including relationship building and communication at all levels and working collaboratively across the organization
• Experience and ability to communicate with clients through listening and persuasive services
• Experience and demonstrable team building and influencing skills; and integrity; and the experience, confidence, and stature to effectively address major client needs and challenges
• Experience as a collaborator and mentor
• Recognition and experience as a leader in the industry

Additional Information

• Relocation is not available for this position.
• Sponsorship for US Employment Authorization is not available for this position
• Travel within South Carolina is required for this position
• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines

The offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. The salary range for this position typically is $150,000 to $190,000.00

AECOM is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, U.S and global well-being programs, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

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Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether youre working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm, and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and youll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each persons potential, and well help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.