Department Manager III

Terracon; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Terracon seeks a senior leader to supervise multiple projects within the department, ensuring on-time delivery, quality, and client satisfaction. You will guide proposals, cost estimates, manpower, and pricing to meet profitability goals.

The role emphasizes recruitment, staff development, and driving key performance metrics while promoting safety and risk controls across projects and proposals.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years’ practice experience with a technical discipline or 14 years’ related experience in lieu of degree.
• Master’s degree or PhD preferred to advance leadership responsibilities.
• Valid driver’s license with acceptable history.

Responsibilities

• Directs department operations to ensure timely, compliant deliverables and client satisfaction.
• Oversees proposals, cost estimates, manpower planning, and pricing for profitability.
• Leads recruitment, training, mentoring, and performance development of staff.
• Plans annual business targets and monitors revenue, billings, and collections.
• Promotes safety, quality, and risk management across projects and proposals.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Environmental Science/Geology

Master’s degree or PhD preferred

Job description

General Responsibilities:

Supervise or monitor all projects in progress in the department to ensure that work is executed on time and in accordance with the client’s requirements and within company policies, procedures and standards. Supervise the preparation of proposals and cost estimates to clients to ensure proper scoping of services, availability of manpower and pricing to achieve desired profitability. Supervise the daily operations of a department including staff training, development, and performance review, utilization of equipment and facilities, safety oversight, quality of services and work product, timely delivery of services and deliverables, and adherence to policies and procedure. Plan for and participate in business development activities to identify, develop, win, and execute project opportunities and build and maintain client relationships.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

• Prepares and oversees the preparation of complex proposals and cost estimates.
• Prepares and participates in client and proposal related presentations.
• Directs the short-range business development activities of all department personnel to ensure that adequate fees are available to support the manpower on the payroll.
• Plan for and execute the recruitment, selection, training, mentoring, and development of all employees in the department.
• Prepare the department annual business plan.
• Oversee and manage the success of the key department metrics of revenue growth, staff chargeability, project billing and collections, and project profitability.
• Develop understanding and be aware of project-related risk. Be familiar with what could go wrong on a project and how to protect the Company. Be familiar with company risk policies.
• Lead safety efforts for team and ensure team follows safety rules and guidelines. Responsible for creating and modeling a safe work environment; demonstrates safety practices. Promote pre-task planning for all projects.
• Responsible for continuous quality monitoring and improvement on projects. Monitor and promote quality standards and practices.
• Responsible for providing consistent quality standards on project and proposal delivery.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline practiced by the Firm including Engineering, Environmental Science or Geology and 10 years’ practice experience. Or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 14 years’ related experience.
• Master’s degree or PhD preferred.
• Previous supervisory experience required and previous managerial experience preferred.
• Valid driver’s license with acceptable violation history.

Preferred Certification:

• Certification or licensure in field of expertise.
• Terracon Authorized Project Reviewer status preferred.