Dam Practice Lead

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Nate Pfenninger, PE | Construction Engineering & Inspection (CEI) Practice Lead

Location: Bingham Farms, MI

Job : 242

# of Openings: 1

Spicer Group is seeking a Dam Practice Lead to join our Surface Water division. This Dam Practice Lead will be responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of dam-related projects, ensuring quality, adherence to deadlines, and budget compliance. This role manages overall practice utilization and financial performance, supports quality management initiatives, and mitigates project risks. The Dam Practice Lead prepares and assists with invoicing, contributes to proposal development and contract negotiations, and may serve as Project Manager or subject matter expert on key projects, including large multidisciplinary efforts.

Additionally, the position involves strategic planning and communication, aligning with company leadership and participating in marketing initiatives. The Dam Practice Lead fosters strong client and partner relationships, promotes industry engagement, and markets the practice’s expertise through various channels. They also oversee the performance, development, and mentoring of technical staff within the practice area, ensuring high standards of service delivery and professional growth.

Spicer Group is a multi-disciplinary engineering, surveying, and planning company. We currently have offices in Michigan, Ohio, and Georgia, but seeking growth opportunities within other regions.

Spicer Group prides itself on our core values of commitment to growth, great client relationships, excellent services and solutions, maintaining a team environment, and having integrity in all we do. We are seeking a candidate who will strive to uphold these values. Spicer Group is committed to maintaining its tightly held private ownership, with no interest in selling to larger AEC firms.

This commitment provides significant ownership opportunities for high performers and people that uphold our core values and build successful teams.

• Competitive Pay
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance Options
• 401(k)-match program
• Paid Holidays
• Sick and Vacation Days
• Profit Sharing
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Professional Development
• Excellent Working Conditions
• Work-Life Balance
• Fitness Reimbursement

In addition to our benefits package, we host employee appreciation events throughout the year as a thank you to all our employees’ hard work and dedication!

• Oversees project deliverables within the Dam Practice of a Surface Water area, ensuring high-quality execution and adherence to deadlines and budgets
• Management of overall utilization and realization of Dam practice
• Supports and contributes to Dam practice area financial performance
• Supports quality management strategy; identifies and mitigates risk
• Supports and contributes to Surface Water and Dam engineering utilization budgeting
• Prepares and assists with…