Overview

Kimley-Horn has a challenging and rewarding opportunity for a motivated Senior Aviation Project Manager in Raleigh, NC. The successful candidate will be a leader in a practice specializing in Aviation services. This individual will have an entrepreneurial spirit and create a vision for growth for an Aviation Engineering Services practice while growing their own projects, clients, and team around them.

Responsibilities

This position leads business development efforts, manages relationships with key clients, and oversees all project tasks while mentoring the growth of younger staff. The successful candidate will have a great deal of autonomy to lead, direct, and grow their business.

Our Senior Project Managers are encouraged to pursue opportunities that fuel their professional passion and contribute to firmwide success. Our system for rewards is designed to recognize staff as they move along a path to success. Bonuses, promotions, path to ownership recognition, and other forms of advancement are performance based, because as a firm we focus on results.

Leadership responsibilities include:

• Lead and manage a team while building and managing relationships with key clients.

• Operate with integrity and sound business principles.

• Provide practice vision, business planning and strategy, establishing goals, building and maintaining positive client relationships.

• Open communication with partners and team, along with growing and directing an Aviation practice.

• Manage projects profitably, transition work to qualified staff, grow and mentor staff, help recruit, and be a positive role model.

Management responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Meeting or exceeding client expectations.

• Identifying and tracking leads.

• Making presentations, writing proposals and scopes of work.

• Establish budgets, ensuring quality and timeliness of deliverables, and supervising the execution of work.

• Accounting, administrative, marketing, recruiting, IT and production support will be provided.

With success, this individual will enjoy the rewards of an impressive bonus program with the potential to advance to ownership.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in engineering.

• Proven track record of successfully winning and delivering work in North Carolina and across the Southeast.

• Bachelor’s Degree in civil engineering or related field.

• Professional Engineer license.

• Experience as a Project Manager managing and growing an aviation team.

• Client contacts and relationships with local municipalities, area counties, and state agencies.

• Business development skills and the proven ability to win work.

• Experience writing proposals, scopes of work, and budgets for projected work.

• Ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.

• Ability to manage & mentor staff, and direct resources effectively in a positive manner.

• Demonstrated ability to manage projects profitably.

• Ability to cross sell multiple disciplines.

Why Kimley-Horn?

At Kimley-Horn, we do things differently. People, clients and employees, are at the forefront of who we are. Clients know we prioritize achieving their goals and growing their success. Employees know our culture and approach to business are built on a desire to provide an environment for everyone to flourish. Our commitment to quality is only as good as the people behind it— that’s why we welcome and develop passionate, hardworking, and proactive employees. We take pride in how our employee retention, robust benefits package, and company values have led to Kimley-Horn’s placement on the Fortune “100 Best Companies to Work” list for 17 years!

Key Benefits at Kimley-Horn

• Exceptional Retirement Plan: 2-to1- company match on up to 4% of eligible compensation (you put in 4% -- we put in 8%) and additional profit-sharing contribution.

• Aggregate company contribution since 2015 has been 18%.

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Low-cost medical, dental, and vision insurance options.

• Generous personal leave, flexible scheduling, floating holidays, and half-day Fridays.

• Financial Wellness: Student loan matching in our 401(k), and performance-based bonuses.

• Professional Development: Tuition reimbursement and extensive internal training programs.

• Family-Friendly Benefits: New Parent Leave, family building benefits, and childcare resources.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Posted Date 12 months ago (11/28/2023 10:38 AM)

ID 2023-8741

Education Bachelor's Degree

Discipline/Focus Aviation