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When it comes to what you want in your career, if you can imagine it, you can do it at Parsons.  Imagine a career working with intelligent, diverse people sharing a common quest. Imagine a workplace where you can be yourself. Where you can thrive. Where you can find your next, right now. We’ve got what you’re looking for.

Job Description:

Job Description:

Transportation Practice Leader - Cincinnati

Your mind sparks when you see opportunities

You’re drawn to opportunities, innovation, and new value creation — and that’s why we’re drawn to you. You’re flexible, resourceful, and able to work around issues to arrive at a profitable goal. You regard critical thinking and problem-solving as a fascinating game — and you have a passion for winning. Our company admires your entrepreneurial way of leading and would like to meet you.

Parsons has been improving the regions highways and bridges for more than 100 years. As a full-service engineering and construction firm, we serve as an extension of our customers’ staff to help plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure that improves quality of life, promotes economic growth, enhances mobility, achieves sustainability and resiliency standards, and supports our customers’ visions.

Need

Are you a leader who’s successfully delivering major highway projects in Ohio?  Do you like using your business development savvy and operations management skills to implement strategies for business growth & performance?  If so, Parsons is seeking a Practice Leader to grow our work in Ohio.

As a Practice Lead for Parsons, you will be responsible for the strategic & operational direction of a very diverse, world-class team, including the management of profitable growth, client development and driving excellence in project delivery.  Additional responsibilities include leveraging key accounts, closely coordinating and collaborating across business lines while providing innovative leadership.  The successful candidate will mentor and develop an established group delivering bridge, tunnel, road, and highway infrastructure programs in Ohio.  Our Practice Lead must be an effective “seller/doer”, able to balance business development, operational management, and project management responsibilities simultaneously.

The ideal location for this position is our Cincinnati, OH office, but hybrid and telecommute options are available for the right candidate.

We have an established management and project delivery team that will support leadership initiatives and business imperatives. In both Traditional and Alternative Project Delivery methods.

You’ll appreciate that our staff and methods have yielded proven success over time. This knowledge will give you the green light to lead with the skill and confidence you prize in yourself. When you can trust the team and processes, stress drops, and productivity and job satisfaction go up.  Join us!

Qualifications

• 4-year degree in Civil Engineering or related technical/business field.
• 15+ years of managing diverse infrastructure projects with a track record of successful project delivery on Ohio projects.
• Demonstrable experience meeting operational business goals and strategizing on market development.  Experience must include P&L ownership and the ability to meet or exceed sales, operating profit & margin, and DSO targets.
• Able to foster collaboration across multiple market sectors and business lines including our Rail, Aviation, Industrial, and Federal Solutions groups
• Experience leading and participating in business development activities.
• Licensed Professional Engineer in Ohio, with considerable experience in the Ohio Market.

Organizations win or lose based on customers’ experiences. Join a winner!

We aim for more than customers — we want loyal advocates. Moreover, we throw ourselves into achieving that goal by giving the people we serve more than they expect. We’re a driven bunch, but we love doing it, and our customers can tell that we do. We want to tell you more. If you believe that you might be the customer-focused leader we’re looking for, contact us.

The main aspects to this role are Project Management, Pursuit Management, Operations, Technical and Business Development.

Project Management

Manage scope, schedule, and budget of highway projects. Develop scope and fee and negotiate new contracts Client management Change order management Identify staffing requirements.

Operations Responsibilities:

Work with other Project Managers, technical managers and Regional Manager to appropriately assign engineering staff for the benefit of project delivery and pursuit success. Collaborate with other managers within the Region to successfully plan, implement, and execute the goals, projects and pursuits of the Region. Identify and support implementation of technology initiatives applicable to the advancement of the transportation practice. Lead the transportation team in Cincinnati. Grow headcount by recruiting and retaining top talent.

Technical Responsibilities:

Collaborate with other managers to provide technical guidance and quality oversight for projects and pursuits. Seek opportunities, and foster same for others, to make presentations and write articles to earn a reputation as an industry leader and promote Parsons as the gold standard in the industry. Engage and serve in leadership positions within professional organizations – seek growth opportunities, stay abreast of local industry news, engage with clients and counterparts to raise the profile of Parsons in the industry.

Business Development Responsibilities:

Support BD efforts in the region including target planning and teaming development in collaboration with the BD staff and under the direction of the Regional Manager. 

Serve as a Capture Manager and Project Manager for key pursuits. Other responsibilities include:

External:

Attend regularly scheduled key client meetings.  This includes meetings for specific projects, and interaction with client staff. Maintain current knowledge of project pipeline for key clients – this includes project opportunities ranging from traditional projects to APD.  In addition to being aware of what is currently in the published plans, acquire knowledge of upcoming opportunities that has not yet been made known publicly.

Internal:

Participate in writing/editing proposals, pricing and pricing reviews of proposals.    Lead proposal and proposal review efforts (Pink, Red, Tiger teams) and become integral to the success of the company. Communicate relevant client news with Operations and Business Development sharing information that could be important to our pursuit success. Participate in BD strategy meetings providing Operations input– this includes the bi-weekly meetings, as well as any periodic meetings that are held. 

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Not Applicable/None

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 75 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in diverse, collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see new possibilities.

Salary Range: 

$136,200.00 - $245,200.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company’s core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ+.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!