Engineering Manager

Overview

RES is seeking an Engineering Manager to oversee and mentor a team of engineers in the development, design, and implementation of water resources and other environmental engineering projects, ensuring adherence to contracts, industry standards, and regulatory requirements. This position will be based out of our Orlando, FL or Ft. Lauderdale, FL office locations.

The Mission: Lead a team of engineers, providing direction based on client needs, and developing a sales strategy for projects and contracts. The role also involves effective communication, report writing, and alignment with state and federal permit requirements for water resource systems.

What your day-to-day might look like?

• Serving as the decision maker for the team’s day-to-day and long-term operations, including assigning work, providing technical support for work product consistency with internal and external client requirements, ensuring that projects are coordinated among staff to support Project Managers and following standard industry and RES practices, policies, processes, and guidelines.
• Workload planning, monitoring, coaching, and counseling team members to improve individual and group performance.
• Be accountable for managing staff resources strategically and tactically to ensure execution and alignment of team operations with the Region’s business plan and strategies.
• Setting workload priorities and reallocating resources as necessary to effectively respond to unplanned events and special work requests approved within the Region’s annual business plan or strategy.
• Review and assess the feasibility, soundness, and compliance with contracts, standards, pertinent federal and state regulations, and laws of all proposed engineering evaluations and products developed by the team.
• Writing technical reports/memorandums for in-house and external distribution.
• Keeping abreast of industry trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and technology improvements and sharing such knowledge with the Division/Region.
• Develop project controls to ensure staff time is consistent with schedule and budget during the design phase of Full Delivery budgets.
• Identifying and winning engineering and related contracts through governmental and private sector clients.

Qualifications

We would love to talk to you if you have many of the following:

• 8+ years of applicable experience that demonstrates measurable career progression in discipline and supervisory roles that can be applied to support RES’ mission.
• Professional Engineering (PE) certificate.
• B.S. in Civil or Environmental Engineering (emphasizing water resources engineering, agricultural engineering, or related engineering).
• Superior writing, communication, and computer skills (MS Word, Excel, MS Project) with attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively focus on various tasks to produce quality results and within deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and with teams of specialists to meet client and project needs.
• Knowledge in the development, evaluation, design, and implementation of water management systems.
• Knowledge in the development of scoping documents, budgets, and development.
• Knowledge of State and Federal permitting regulations.
• Knowledge of Industry best management practices.
• Experience in mentoring and management of staff.
• Experience in Permitting (Federal and State).

What will make you stand out?

• Experience in developing detailed design schedules using MS Project and budgets and maintenance of project controls.
• Experience in developing production-level design documents and specifications for construction.
• Experience in developing nature-based solutions including wetland treatment and stream restoration projects.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor

RES is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.