Reports to:

Discipline Leader

Working Location:

In-Office, Remote, or Hybrid
**This position requires extensive US travel via airline and rental vehicle to meet client and project expectations.

Minimum Required:

Education

• Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering, Planning, Landscape Architecture, or related field is preferred.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer (P.E.), Landscape Architect, or Professional Planner preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 10+ years of proven experience in a Development Services role with proven excellence in time management, maintaining deadlines and a track record of responsible leadership in the team.

Position Description:

Supervise the design and preparation of engineering, survey, landscape, and due diligence documents for projects throughout a wide range of markets, including review of plans for the multi-disciplines in the design package, contract management, and project profitability for all JSD disciplines. The person in this position serves as a Project Manager, technical specialist, staff advisor and client consultant as well as leading and mentoring junior staff.

Duties:

Client Management

• Acting as Quality Control of client deliverables in a timely and efficient manner for projects under his/her management.
• Prioritizing multiple projects and deadlines and team member workloads.
• Efficiently executing contract, billing, and collection process for projects under his/her management.
• Developing and maintaining an effective working knowledge of state, county, and municipal land development procedures and regulations.
• Serving as a representative of the firm at both public & private meetings and presentations relative to assigned projects (i.e. plan commission, common council, board & agencies).
• Requiring extensive US travel via airline and rental vehicle to meet client and project expectations.

Marketing

• Marketing the firm’s capabilities to establish new clients and enhance relationships with existing clients.
• Preparing proposals for potential projects.

Training Responsibilities

• Communicating between departments to schedule work and establish project priorities and maintain JSD standards.
• Mentoring and developing junior team members.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of development processes.

Required Capabilities:

Must display a consistent:

• Work independently and be available to respond to clients on an as-needed basis.
• Strong ability to research and clearly and concisely summarize site opportunities and constraints in written report format.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite applications, Smartsheets and project management tools.
• High degree attention to detail, time and task management, and organization.
• Effective and professional communication skills on multiple platforms including: in-person, phone, email, Teams, and in meetings.
• Ability to multi-task on concurrent responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work occasional extended hours as required to meet client, project and/or business demands.

Key Milestones for Advancement:

• Has mastered the art of managing a schedule and budget.
• Effectively manages the full due diligence and entitlement processes on multiple simultaneous projects.
• Is a proven strong problem solver and proactive in their decision making.
• Capable of interacting with the client and project team and identify the specific project risk items that will impact a projects schedule and budget.
• Maintain a high level of internal and external communication skills across all disciplines in a team environment.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to train and mentor.
• Proactively engages in business development and new client pursuits.
• Able to author proposals, manage the project budget and identify cost overruns. Administers additional services requests in a timely manner.
• Able to confidently address all project questions from internal and external team members.
• Demonstrates comprehension and proper application on legal issues and associated risk with certain decisions.
• Consistently meet staff position utilization targets, project deadlines and deliverables.
• Is able to successfully fully manage a national client account.

Essential Functions of Position:

• 6-8 hours a day on the computer.
• High degree attention to detail.
• High degree time and task management.
• Must be able to safely drive a vehicle for meetings and site visits, occasionally for long distances.
• Physically able to meet OSHA regulations for being on an active construction site for site visits to active projects.
• Standing, walking, bending, squatting multiple times a day for up to 8 hours.