Geotechnical Engineering Practice Manager

We are SLR Consulting (Americas), a 1500+ team of advisory, environmental, engineering, and regulatory professionals across Canada, the United States, and LATAM. We deliver environmental and sustainability services to our clients through the integration of over 30 advisory, technical environmental, and engineering disciplines to help clients address some of their most complex challenges around sustainability. We are Making Sustainability Happen.
As our new Geotechnical Engineering Practice Manager, you will play an important role on a team whose work is essential to achieving this goal.
Role
SLR is looking for a highly motivated individual with excellent technical, communication, and interpersonal skills to lead our North American geotechnical engineering team. This diverse position provides a great opportunity to lead a multi-national team, provide technical and operational leadership in conjunction with our other senior leaders, and drive innovative project solutions for our clients.
The successful candidate will be a client-focused professional and possess experience working with clients to develop technical scopes of work, prepare proposals, and successfully manage and deliver projects, meeting SLR’s high standards for quality and client service. Ideally, you’ll have experience in identifying, developing, and pursuing business opportunities, as well as in providing mentorship and staff leadership within the geotechnical team.
Responsibilities:
Leading the Geotechnical Engineering practice with authenticity, purpose, and vigour
Driving growth in line with market trends and opportunities, and actively manages resourcing requirements to facilitate growth
Consistently achieving KPIs across the spectrum of financial metrics, responding to stretch targets as necessary
Managing SLR’s commercial risk through rigorous and informed review of project work and proposals, ensuring adequate backlog and maintaining standards of excellence
Using your proven leadership skills to maintain and grow a high performing practice
Leading by example by working effectively across multi-disciplinary teams, fostering collaboration across practices, promoting knowledge sharing regionally and globally
Ensuring the portfolio of projects with the practice is healthy, with a net positive position, and that high risks are appropriately managed
Maintaining a client focus always. Engaging frequently with clients in collaboration with other business leaders to drive brand awareness, business development, and market share advancement
Keeping up to date with specialist area trends and best practice, participating in technical and/or professional associations
Living and breathing the SLR way through the promotion and use of consistent globally aligned systems, practices and processes
Working @ SLR
With us, there is no doubt you’ll grow your subject-matter expertise and industry knowledge. We care about investing in our employees for the long-run, and if you ask our team, they’ll tell you that’s just one of the many benefits of working here. We want to be a place where you can experience career growth and satisfaction for many years.
Here’s what else you’ll enjoy as part of our team:
Competitive total compensation package including comprehensive benefits, vacation, and a suite of wellness initiatives.
The salary range for this position is $165,000+. Final agreed upon compensation will be commensurate with individual education, professional designation, experience, internal parity, and location.
Full-time, permanent role with opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
Qualifications/Education/Memberships:
Our ideal candidate will have 20+ years’ experience as a Geotechnical Engineer, as well as:
Experience managing both projects, and teams of consultants across different geographies
Proven experience in operations leadership within a technical consulting or professional services environment
Experience in developing practice-level business plans and achieving intended outcomes
Proven people management experience across a wide area to engage, develop and retain their team
Demonstrated experience in consistently achieving performance metrics and growing teams, revenue and margins
Excellent business development, client management and multi-disciplinary bid execution skills
Outstanding ability to understand client needs and oversee teams to meet those needs
Effective communication capabilities, particularly around conveying vision, strategic intent and ability to invigorate people to bring them on the journey
Competence in analytical assessments and reporting
The ability to travel within the US and Canada to engage with the team personally.
This job posting is for an existing vacancy. Artificial intelligence is not being used to screen, assess, or select applicants.
SLR strives to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we work in, and encourages applications from traditionally underrepresented groups including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as 2SLGBTQI+, veterans, and people with disabilities.