Houston Highway Discipline Leader

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RS&H is excited to invite you to join our dynamic and expanding team in Houston, Texas as the Highway Discipline Leader. This role offers an exciting opportunity to advance your career by leading RS&H’s successful and growing highway design team in Houston to deliver large-scale transportation design projects while helping expand RS&H’s presence in Texas.

Why This Opportunity is Special

Over the past year, the Houston team has achieved significant revenue growth serving clients such as the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the City of Houston. Our clients experience the difference in our collaborative and proactive approach to service and appreciate the Houston team for their “willingness to take on such unique and individualized tasks without hesitation.”

Our success has created new opportunities for team expansion and career advancement. As the Highway Discipline Leader in Houston, you will lead and mentor our energetic highway design team, manage complex transportation design projects, manage client relationships, grow your team, deliver creative and innovative solutions to clients, and support the firm’s business development efforts. You will be given the reins to oversee all aspects of the successful delivery of projects, including contract management, managing production teams, quality assurances, and financial performance.

You will also belong to a nationwide team of accountable, driven, and caring employee owners who are committed to taking the long view to growing and sustaining the company for future generations. Our “One RS&H” approach leverages the company’s resources efficiently across all locations, promoting internal collaboration and workshare opportunities to maintain realistic utilization expectations.

Our ideal candidate is comfortable working in a highly flexible, team-oriented environment and has excellent communication, analysis, and documentation skills. We are looking for resourceful and innovative engineers that enjoy working in a collaborative environment. If you are ready to make an impact, we welcome you!

Your Role & Responsibilities:

• Autonomy & Leadership: With the support of your fellow employee owners, including company leadership, and direct access to a comprehensive learning and development program, you will lead the local highway design team while serving as a senior project manager on large, complex transportation projects. You will oversee and mentor multi-disciplined teams and ensure high-quality project outcomes.
• Team Management & Mentorship: Drawing on your leadership and project experience, you will manage a team of highway engineers as they deliver high-performing service and quality deliverables while supporting their continued growth and development.  
• Client & Team Communication: You will maintain strong client relationships as the client relationship manager and point of contact throughout a project’s lifecycle. You will manage all client communications and satisfaction and coordinate with discipline key task leaders, staff, and subconsultants to ensure seamless project execution and collaboration. You’ll perform regular quality control checks on deliverables, developing, monitoring, and meeting schedules and budgets for projects.
• Business Development: You’ll leverage your connections and experience to identify project opportunities, lead the development of proposals, and select strong teaming partners to win work. You’ll engage in industry events with the team, promote your collective achievements, and network with prospective clients and other industry professionals.
• National Collaboration: With RS&H’s focus on flexibility and work sharing, you will collaborate with multi-disciplined teams on projects that directly impact Houston and bring positive momentum to the vibrant growth and development in the state. In addition, you will access RS&H’s extensive nationwide footprint to broaden your experience, connect to a supportive network of incredible talent, and share knowledge and insights to improve our business.  

What You Need to Succeed:

• Professional Engineering License: You are a licensed professional engineer in Texas, or can obtain reciprocity within six months, holding a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or a similar discipline from an ABET-accredited university.
• Experience: You bring 10+ years of progressive leadership experience, managing and mentoring large multi-disciplined teams working on complex projects with a construction value of ≥ $20M.
• Project & Team Management: You have project management experience with conventional and design-build projects relating to intersections, arterials, interstates, and interchanges for TxDOT and Texas municipal clients.
• Local Expertise: You have project experience in Texas, which has taught you policies and procedures associated with managing highway design, alternative delivery, and/or general engineering contracts for TxDOT.
• Client Partnership: You understand your client's goals, provide thoughtful options, advise on challenging decisions, and act as a reliable partner, proactively communicating to address challenges before they arise.
• Organizational Skills & Focus on Quality: You are dedicated to delivering industry-leading products and ensuring effective quality control processes. Your incredible organizational skills and attention to detail support your quality control/management. Your approach of focused multitasking and prioritization is crucial for your effective management of the team and projects.
• Technical Proficiency: You have excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite for day-to-day operations, including emails, budgeting, and presentations. You also have enough skills and knowledge of MicroStation, Bentley Open Roads Designer (ORD), PS&E package development, and/or Corridor Modeling to review others’ work and offer suggestions.
• Communication Skills: With excellent written and verbal communication skills, you can market yourself and RS&H to potential new clients, staff, and consultant or contractor partners.

Goals and Objectives: 

• Lead the Houston Highway team, including client management, project development, financial performance and revenue growth, backlog balancing through utilization and workshare, and associate mentorship and growth.
• Grow and lead high-performance teams in areas of: continuing a culture of excellence and innovative thinking; finding and vetting new talent who add value to project teams; overseeing technical training, mentoring, and learning.
• Lead business development in the Houston Transportation market to provide growth and sustained backlog, including management of client relationships for loyalty, long-term engagement, and lifetime retention.
• Responsible for project performance and execution, including oversight of Design Teams through mentorship and project leadership. Additional responsibilities include monitoring labor budgets and schedules for assigned tasks/projects; coordinating with key task leaders and staff to ensure ongoing communications; meeting project deliverable schedules and budgets for assigned projects; and supporting marketing and business development initiatives.
• Work collaboratively with leadership to develop goals, growth plans, and implement strategic initiatives.

Required Qualifications: 

• ABET accredited Bachelor's in Civil Engineering from an accredited university
• Master of Science in civil engineering degree or Master of Business Administration preferred, but not required.
• Minimum 12 years of experience in Civil design, at least 8 in highway and roadway related facilities
• Experience working on interstate, interchange, and roadway construction for state and county clients
• Texas PE licensure or ability to obtain within 6 months of starting
• Effective team-focused associate that will foster teamwork, help set priorities, and define expectations
• Strong supervisory skills and record of leading design teams
• Good organization and motivation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to travel across the region to existing/potential Transportation Clients
• Ability to win roadway/highway work as the Prime Firm project manager
• Must have a Valid Driver's License with a good driving record
• Working knowledge of MicroStation, Bentley Open Roads Designer (ORD), PS&E package development, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) required for use in completing an assignment

If this sounds like the role for you and you're ready to join an amazing team, please apply.

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Please note: no agency representation or submissions will be recognized for this vacancy. Candidates should apply directly to this role to be considered. It is the responsibility of all third-party recruiting and employment agencies to know and adhere to our recruiting policy.

Joining our Highway team means an opportunity to explore your potential and apply your diverse skills to serve the large and small projects of the transportation industry as a trusted advisor.  You can do this in a collaborative and team-oriented environment among other driven professionals. From managed toll lanes and long-range corridor plans to complex interchanges, major roadway, and segmental bridge designs, our teams provide the highest quality planning, environmental and engineering design solutions to our clients.  Each day, we partner with transportation agencies and local governments across the country to keep our communities moving and improve the overall quality of life. By joining our team, you too can lead the evolution of transportation.

Employee-owned, RS&H is one of the nation’s leading architecture, engineering, and consulting firms whose associates work hard every day to create a more connected future where everyone can thrive. We offer an exceptional journey from start to future. Our integrated teams translate experience into insight, turn challenges into opportunities, and build relationships that are as strong as the buildings and infrastructure we deliver together. We attribute our success to an unwavering commitment to our core values of integrity, caring, forward-thinking, creativity, inclusivity, and ownership.