Discipline Lead​/Group Manager, Highway Design

Our employee-owned and integrated team of multi-discipline engineering and design professionals has an exciting opportunity available for a senior highway design engineer who has a strong technical aptitude combined with a passion for guiding and developing a collective team of experts and emerging professionals and a desire to lead the growth of our highway design services.

As a Group Manager (GM), your primary responsibility will be to coach, mentor, and develop a talented group of engineers and technicians. With insight on our strategic and annual business plan, you will be responsible for outlining development plans for team members that further their professional growth and align with business needs to advance our service capabilities. Through recurring discussions, you will coach on design practices and standards, provide guidance on addressing design challenges, assist in navigating discipline coordination efforts, and encourage them to take on more autonomous responsibilities and 'stretch assignments'.

Given the make-up of the highway design group, you would directly manage registered professionals along with a Team Lead / Assistant Group Manager, who directly manages a collective team of emerging / unregistered engineers, designers, and technicians.

Additionally, you will assess team capabilities and capacity against project scope and overall deliverables commitments to assemble project teams, delegate applicable design tasks, review work in accordance with applicable standards and QA/QC processes, and oversee deliverable progress in relation to submittal schedules. In alignment with current practices and emerging trends, you will also be responsible for identifying, advocating for, developing, and expanding the depth and breadth of highway design capabilities for the collective team.

In collaboration with other group managers, you will be responsible for advancing our highway design services and enhancing our reputation by contributing to client engagement and development plans, cultivating / maintaining relations with stakeholders, tracking prospective opportunities, leading proposals, and delivering qualifications presentations. In addition, you will partner with various representatives throughout TKDA to outline and implement market development strategies to generate or enhance awareness and recognition of our service offerings and capabilities across current, emerging, and target locations both regionally and nationally.

From a design capacity, you will be seen as a technical expert and will therefore be responsible for providing technical guidance and insight to project teams and project managers throughout the full lifecycle of a project. As necessary and applicable, you will assume project manager responsibilities for strategic and high-profile projects. Additionally, you will assist with proposal development for project pursuits by providing input on team capabilities and capacities in relation to project scope and anticipated delivery commitments and participate in qualifications presentations and project interviews.

For this opportunity we are seeking a qualified professional who resides within a regular commuting distance of our MSP / Bloomington, MN location. TKDA provides employees with flexible hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote) work arrangements.

• Professional Engineer (PE) with ten or more years of professional experience with a progressive mix of comprehensive design and project management for large-scale multi-discipline roadway and highway infrastructure projects.
• Prior experience engaging in business development activities - including proposal preparations, development of scope and fee estimates, and facilitation / leading of capabilities or qualifications presentations.
• Demonstrated track record of securing project opportunities with established, emerging, and prospective clients / public agencies.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop a team of transportation design professionals consisting of registered engineers, designers, and technicians with varying competencies, knowledge, qualifications, and experience.
• Superior focus on…