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OHM Advisors

Practice Leader - Transportation Engineering

OHM Advisors, Columbus, OH


Hiring in any of the below locations:

Michigan- Ann Arbor, Auburn Hills, Detroit, Hancock, Livonia, Midland, & Petoskey
Ohio- Akron, Cleveland, & Columbus
Tennessee- Nashville

What You will Contribute to OHM Advisors

The Transportation Practice Leader leads the direction and growth of Transportation services region-wide. This role is the business sector leader who will drive strategy and success for all OHM. The primary focus is on both traditional transportation infrastructure engineering and future mobility.

Your Primary Focus

Maintain and Grow OHM Transportation Services
  • Identifies and executes strategies for growth and success in our various markets.
  • Works closely with key operational leaders to identify opportunities, key clients, and projects to pursue.
  • Develops and oversees our business development and marketing strategies for Transportation success.
  • Develops key relationships with teaming partners and other industry leaders.
  • Serves as the market leader and represents OHM at conferences and industry events.
  • Ensures our talent and approach meet client needs.
  • Develops the Discipline's overall Quality process and promotes its understanding and use company-wide.

Group Financial Management
  • Prepares the annual discipline budget as part of the yearly business plan process.
  • Works with the VP of Finance and other VPs and Directors to review and analyze costs, operations, and forecast data to maintain and improve discipline operations.
  • Compiles and summarizes operational revenue and sales projections and tracks on an ongoing basis.

Talent management
  • Seeks, identifies, and onboards key discipline staff, focus is on recruiting, hiring, and growing staff.
  • Plans and implements personnel decisions.
  • Establishes and tracks group utilization goals.
  • Manages key staff within the Discipline.

What you need to Succeed
  • Direct background or knowledge of roadway design, bridge engineering, and/or traffic engineering.
  • The ability to identify business prospects, and key client issues, and plan for growth and success.
  • The ability to coach and train all levels of project team members from staff engineers and technicians to project managers and technical experts.
  • Excellent communication skills, good organizational skills, proven ability to manage people, and enjoy working in a team environment.
  • A Positive, charismatic attitude, with an eagerness to continue to grow our Transportation teams company-wide.
  • An inclusive approach that identifies strengths, focuses on the development and helps all staff succeed.

Come work for OHM Advisors, the community advancement firm

With the singular mission of Advancing Communities, our diverse, 650+ member team works collaboratively across multiple service areas, including architecture, engineering, planning, surveying, and construction engineering, to create better places for people.

We are a team of experts with individual specialties working together, driven to make a difference through people-focused problem solving, design, and ideas. In everything we do, we put people first. We create places for communities of people that help solve a problem and drive them forward advancing the whole community today and well into the future.

Your Team

As a trusted member of OHM Advisors' Transportation team, you will join a growing, mission-driven team of innovative thinkers who collaborate daily, using our combined gifts and talents to continually advance the communities we serve.

Growth at OHM Advisors

Advancement isn't just for our clients. We're committed to moving our team forward, too. At OHM Advisors, you'll enjoy challenging, meaningful work at a growing company creating innovative solutions for forward-thinking clients. But there's not just cool work on big projects. You'll be empowered to create your own career path in a culture that supports your individual professional development goals and encourages your pursuits through continued opportunities for growth. Read about some of our opportunities for career growth and enrichment on our website.

OHM Advisors is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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