MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

A track record of being a successful seller-doer, capable of proactively building client relationships as well as having a broad knowledge of clients and contacts in the relevant geography, having a strong record of accomplishment in hiring, developing, and retaining employees and prior experience with financial metrics, employment decisions, strategic planning with operations, and contract negotiations.

General:

• Strong leadership abilities.
• Prior experience with financial metrics, staffing decisions, strategic planning with operations, and contract negotiations.
• Strong record of accomplishment in hiring and retaining employees and providing for employee’s development across a multi-disciplinary team.
• Prior experience in program, group, or office supervisory or management role.
• Advanced oral, written, and inter-personal communication skills.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with internal and client project teams.
• Successful seller doer who proactively builds client relationships and has broad knowledge of clients and contacts in the relevant geography.
• Experience: 15+ years relevant industry experience.
• Education: B.S. required, preferably in a GEI core Engineering or Science discipline (M.S. desirable), or equivalent experience.

YOUR ROLE AT GEI.

We are seeking candidates to organize and lead the business and administrative functions of our Denver Engineering Division to meet or exceed GEI’s goals for client service, employee’s development, utilization, pre-distribution profit (PDP), and growth.

The Division Manager establishes and maintains an Engineering leadership team to accomplish these goals by:

• Achieving high levels of client and employee satisfaction.
• Being accountable for the Division’s financial and operational performance.
• Responsible for the acquisition, engagement, and retention of top talent, including overseeing employee development, training, and mentoring.
• Assuring that QA/QC procedures are well understood and consistent in execution.
• Developing strong organization plans, business development plans, and business development teams (account or market focused).
• Demonstrating a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing, and guiding the activities of the division.
• Allocating time between division responsibilities (10% to 20%), business development (20-30%), and related project work (50-65%).
• Reporting to the Denver Branch Manager.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

Organization Leadership

• Establishes and maintains an Engineering Division leadership team. The division leadership team works with Division Manager to execute essential duties listed herein.
• Effectively collaborates with and supports the Denver Branch Manager and practice leaders to achieve division, branch, area, and region wide strategic, tactical, and budget goals.
• Leads division to accomplish objectives including financial, business development, strategic, and technical services goals as defined in the Branch and Regional annual budget and strategic plan.

Financial Performance

• Responsible for meeting or exceeding division utilization and growth goals.
• Assesses cost variances and develops and implements mitigation strategies.
• Manages receivables and the resolution of variances of division employees to ensure good relations with clients, timely payments to GEI and targeted project financial performance.
• Undertakes measures that assure the division meets or exceeds its target financial goals (with consideration to goals for growth and diversification).

Human Resources Leadership

• Manages division employees, including personnel actions, hiring, orientation, performance appraisals, promotions, and terminations, all in conformance with GEI policies.
• Ensures health and safety programs are followed.
• Develops promotion, merit increase, and bonus recommendations.
• Manages and supports professional training, development, and mentoring of division employees.
• Helps identify and budget for training and seminars both external and internal.
• Engages in self and professional improvement activities to remain aware of technical, business development, and performance improvement advances.

Technical Project Leadership

• Works cooperatively with senior employees to develop project management plans, ensure work product quality, and risk management through accepted and consistently applied QA/QC procedures, and participates on project teams in varying capacities as appropriate.
• Ensures that project technical excellence is achieved by project employees and implements appropriate training and employee’s development solutions when challenges emerge.
• Works within Branch, Area, Region and Company to foster collaboration and sharing of resources and project opportunities.

Business Development Leadership

• Leads organization business development through successful personal business development and by encouraging others.
• Manages division business development activities to grow the business through expansion of projects and service lines for existing clients, developing new clients, generating target specific leads, and encouraging division employees to do the same.
• Works with Branch and Area Managers and practice leaders throughout the region and outside the region to identify and pursue new project and client opportunities in GEI’s core service portfolio.
• Leads and acts as a Proposal Manager for proposals as needed or assigns appropriate Proposal Manager tasks to others to help win new work.