Engineering Area Manager - Transportation (Pittsburgh)

STV is looking to hire a civil engineering design professional to be the Pittsburgh Area Manager. In this highly visible role, you'll drive growth, market diversification and provide exceptional leadership to our growing and dynamic Pittsburgh transportation Group.

Your new role:

As the Area Manager for the Transportation Group across Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, you are the highest-ranking executive of STV’s Transportation Group for your region. Your performance creates a vibrant, growth-oriented, collaborative, and robust business that is seen as an active member of the communities in which you operate, a trusted advisor to your clients, a valued teaming partner, a leader in the industry, and a formidable competitor.

Why STV:

Our market sectors span across highway and bridge design, transit, and planning, working for clients such as the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Pennsylvania Turnpike, City of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Regional Transit, Allegheny County, and other(s). Under your leadership, you will mentor and lead an existing team of managers, engineers, inspectors, planners, and construction managers while building strategies to expand into other untouched markets across western Pennsylvania.

What you’ll do:

Joining STV’s Pennsylvania Transportation Group, you will work closely with market sector leaders, discipline leaders, and other regional area managers to deliver comprehensive engineering, planning, design, construction & inspection services.

You’ll be accountable for planning and organizing the business and for making the operational decisions necessary to achieve STV’s desired strategic and annual outcomes for the Area. These outcomes include targets and objectives for client relations, growth, project performance, efficiency, and talent development.

• Representing STV with clients, the industry, and the broader community across western Pennsylvania, particularly with strong connections within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

• Working with STV client service team leaders to ensure STV enjoys a robust relationship with its clients.

• Maintaining close professional relationships with key people at client, teaming partner, industry, and community organizations.

• Creating and implementing plans that align with and achieve STV’s strategic plan objectives.

• Identifying, recruiting, and developing talent with the aim of growing the business and ensuring a strong line of succession for key leadership roles in the operation.

• Providing effective management of STV’s local business activities including selection of STV’s client mix and services offering, adding new clients, winning new work, execution of projects, hiring locally based personnel, resource planning, and controlling overhead expenditure.

• Ensuring the operation adheres to STV’s policies and procedures.

• Identifying, mentoring, and training the next generation of future leaders.

• Analyzing and understanding client, business, and industry issues that potentially affect STV’s business in western Pennsylvania and preparing plans to position STV to capitalize on those trends.

• Assessing the performance of the STV team members and taking action to rectify any shortfalls against expectations and to recognize and promote those of exceptional ability.

• Analyzing and reporting on business performance and implementing timely measures to address adverse outcomes to ensure financial goals are achieved.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Have 20+ years of experience in relevant Transportation market sectors with a proven track record in business development and operations.

• Educational Background: BS/MS in Engineering.

• Professional Registration: Registered Professional Engineer (PE) or Planner (AICP) in Pennsylvania (and preferably additional states).

• Market Specialization: You’ll be a subject matter expert in one or multiple disciplines such as highway design, structural design, hydraulics, construction management, planning or Transit.

• Multi-Disciplinary Technical Leadership: You will be a proven leader of multi-disciplinary design, CM or Inspection teams and have delivered a range of projects from concept to close as the Project Manager.

• Business Growth: You will enjoy being both externally and internally facing, driving new business, optimizing relationships with existing clients, leading proposals/pursuit strategies along with leading a growing team of engineers and planners.

Why you'd belong at STV:

As one of the nation’s top transportation design and engineering firms, you'd be joining a hig