Cei Practice Lead - Orange, United States - HWLochner

Description

About Lochner

Founded in 1944, Lochner is a trusted infrastructure services provider for aviation, surface transportation, and water clients who need high-quality, forward-looking solutions to complex challenges.

Our vision is to become a Top 100 leader in the A/E industry, centered on an agile, engaged, and empowered workforce coming together to embrace the art of the possible and make a lasting difference in our world.

Are you ready to join us on this journey?


Your Impact
Oversees and manages the firm's Southern California construction management and program management practice.

This practice currently includes the firm's construction management, construction engineering, construction inspection, project controls and program management team in Southern California.

They will be responsible for the leadership and management of this high growth part of the Lochner business.

Marketing and Business Development

• Develop the construction management and program management vision and supporting business plans to drive the region's growth, leveraging a strong understanding of the local marketplace, competitive landscape, and opportunities.
• Represent the firm at client meetings, industry events, and other business functions. Develop relationships with local leaders from key teaming partner firms and take active leadership roles in professional organizations at local level. Support practice in developing strategic teaming partnerships and subsequent agreements.
• Schedule periodic meetings with key client personnel in coordination with PMs, staff and other members of leadership as appropriate.

Business Strategy and Implementation

• Support the development of practicelevel action plans to support the regional business plan and encourage strong debate and analysis for growth in an area or discipline.
• Ensure compliance with company expectations for staff utilization and enforce corrective action plans when/where needed. Resolve high level operational concerns or problems as soon as practicable and take actionable steps to remediate impacts and enhance performance.
• Assess and anticipate the organization's talent needs to best understand current and future leadership gaps and bench strength, and then design and implement a comprehensive leadership development strategy to meet future needs.

Finance and Operations

• Ensure the profitability of the regional practice and its projects.
• Measure and monitor budget and operational performance and communicate key metrics and information regularly to the leadership team.

Operational Responsibility

• Where possible and in agreement with regional leadership, maintain a defined level of chargeability. Without a chargeability expectation will be required to assume a greater level of responsibility as approved by leadership.
• Work closely with other Practice Managers and support teaming within their regions.
• Maintain client communication in coordination with other practices and assure satisfactory client experience, project production, and Quality Assurance / Quality Control procedures.
• Oversee succession plans and where appropriate, support development of defined successor(s) across the team. Perform honest and candid performance evaluations of direct reports. Recommend salary increases for subordinate staff for approval by leadership.
• Ensure practice complies with applicable laws, regulations, and corporate policies / procedures.
• Ensure the flow of communication within the region, through regular meetings, written communications, and informal communication, to ensure the effective sharing or critical information, efficient decisionmaking, team engagement and collaboration.

Results

• Drive the growth of the business regionally to support attainment of Lochner's nationwide growth strategies and plans.
• Leverage an entrepreneurial approach to refresh the local strategy and position the business for success. Contribute to longterm growth in the region by building the technical and civil transportation capabilities required to secure current business and penetrate new markets.
• Stabilize the business and reinvigorate the culture. Engage and inspire the team, with a focus on sustainable growth through recruitment, retention, and professional development.

Demonstrated Leadership Capabilities

• Strategic thinking
• Driving results
• Leading change
• Leading people
• Collaborating and influencing
• Building people capability

Ideal Experience

• Minimum of 15 years of diversified experience in civil engineering, with specific expertise in transportation infrastructure
• Has led and delivered significant projects of scale through effective team and budget management.
• Experienced in relevant facets of planning, design and construction services for transit, roads, highways and bridges.
• Strategic and growth minded leadership
• Demonstrated track record of positioning and scaling a business and team for growth. Ensures effective governance, at the