Land Development Practice Leader

Take Your Delivery Management Career to the Next Level
Do you have a passion for developing new business relationships, guiding the growth and career development of others, and using experience and creativity to help solve unique problems? Do you have a proven track record setting and achieving goals and objectives? Consider joining our team to lead and grow our team!

Step into Your New Role
Doucet, a Kleinfelder company, is looking for a dynamic Practice Lead of Land Development to join our Austin office and be responsible for the P&L of the Austin Land Development department. This position creates performance and sales goals, ensures project managers and engineers comply with company quality standards, monitors the performance of the production team, and provides senior level expertise to guide staff in solving complex problems. Projects range in size and complexity from small to large, including retail, commercial, residential and master planned communities.

Key Responsibilities include:

Manage business operations for your team:
• Create an annual business plan with your Project Managers and present it to the Area Manager - Vice President. The plan will focus on qualitative and quantitative aspects.
• Establish department objectives by collaborating with team members and management. Working with staff and management.
• Oversee business development activities, including coordination with BusDev team and promoting your technical team to engage in BD.
• Establish team’s BD plan:
• Cultivate key client relationships.
• Develop growing pipeline and proactively build and maintain relationships with current and future clients.

Achieve Department financial goals:
• KPI: revenue, team utilization, net revenue multiplier, DSO, profitability, etc.
• AR collections, effort vs contract value, project profitability, change order submission, monthly invoicing.
• Risk management; contract review, proposal review, licensing review.
• Consistently update the department’s financial forecast

Establish product objectives to ensure: 
• current company and departmental standards are met.
• templates are utilized and functional.
• operational excellence and a repeatable process for deliverables.

Communicate with employees:
• Maintain an Open Door Policy.
• Communicate employee and company objectives and goals.
• Promote an entrepreneurial growth environment.

Develop staff:
• Performance Management: Initiate and follow-up on reviews, support and provide details for improvement plans, and ensure successfully development of staff.
• Training: monitor and guide implementation of training program.
• Mentor staff on industry, project, process knowledge, and best practices.

Manage staff:
• Manage all members of the team with authority to recruit, interview, onboard, train, evaluate, promote, and discipline.
• Communicate with Human Resources regarding hiring, review, promotion, retention, and termination of employees.
• Support regional recruiting efforts. Working with regional in-house recruiters:
• Identify, interview, and hire key talent.
• Build an organizational chart and hire towards those goals.
• Monitor compensation requirements for staff and adjust accordingly.
• Approve timesheets and PTO, expense reports, and corporate credit card expenses.

Responsible for team’s Health & Safety training and guidance:
• Understand the safety manuals and protocols.
• Engage Health and Safety to educate, as needed.
• Maintain awareness of the safety aspects/requirements of projects from a team perspective and appropriate engagement, direction, and training with safety for the support needed.

Enhance professional and technical knowledge:
• Meet professional education requirements.
• Review professional and market segment publications.
• Participate in applicable professional societies and trade associations.
• Promote internal communication and encourage dialogue within project teams, across market sectors, and throughout the organization.

Education/Certification:

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• Typically, a minimum of fifteen (15) plus years of experience in civil engineering - land development
• Proven ability to lead teams, develop talent, and lead business development efforts.

Move Forward with Doucet, a Kleinfelder company
Kleinfelder has been connecting great people to the best work since 1961. We are engineers, scientists, and construction professionals providing solutions that improve our clients' transportation, water, energy, and other private infrastructure. As a responsive, cross-disciplinary team of bright, curious, and innovative problem-solvers, we are dedicated to doing the right thing, every day, on every project from over 85 offices in the US, Canada, and Australia. Connecting great people to the best work is our purpose - together, we deliver.

Progress with an Employer that Values You
Kleinfelder is an inclusive organization free from discrimination. We are a stronger organization when we are a diverse workforce and believe that through diversity, equity, and inclusion comes creativity, innovation, and unity. We are proud to offer the following:

Benefits: Kleinfelder offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays.

Career Development: We are committed to investing in the professional development of our staff, offering each employee every opportunity to grow, develop, and take control of their career paths. We support these efforts through reimbursements for continuing education as well as many of the expenses associated with trainings and certifications, and opportunities for career development through our internal Mentoring Program.

Equal Opportunity: Kleinfelder is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans. (Compliant with the new VEVRAA and Section 503 rules)

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES
Please note that Kleinfelder does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, Kleinfelder will not consider or agree to payment for any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, Kleinfelder explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resume, including those submitted to hiring managers, is deemed to be the property of Kleinfelder.