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Project Systems and Delivery Lead

KFI Engineers

Cincinnati, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Jun 2026

About the role

Position Specification

Position: Project Systems and Delivery Lead

Department: Administration

Reporting Relationship: VP, East Region

COMPANY BACKGROUND

KFI Engineers is a recognized industry leader in facility infrastructure design and performance. Since 1996, our culture of collaboration and unique capabilities have allowed us to make a difference in the way infrastructure and processing projects are delivered.

Headquartered in St. Paul, MN, with numerous regional offices throughout the United States, and a team of hundreds of professionals, we offer opportunities to continue your career with mentorship programs, career growth support, and continued education. With KFI, we find a way to provide creative solutions to unique projects while providing the same care we would expect if we were the client. For more information about KFI Engineers and our culture, please visit www.kfi-eng.com.

Overview & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Project Systems and Delivery Lead will play a critical role in advancing the firm’s data utilization to drive decision making, improve the performance (execution and coordination of work) of our Civil Structural and Architectural (CSA) subconsultants on large capex projects. The ideal candidate will be a strong communicator with a passion for operations and a demonstrated ability to lead initiatives that integrate project data - including resource planning, labor curves, schedules, and staff availability - into the decision-making process to support continuous improvement.

Specific responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following:

Manager-level responsibility for resource planning

Utilization of project data, developing reports and monitoring metrics, and utilizing data to assist decision-making for future Business Development efforts, specific project pursuits, and recruiting efforts.
Provide mentoring to less experienced Project Managers and those transitioning from project engineering role (individual contributor) to Project Manager role on smaller projects.
Attend department staff meetings and/or resource planning meetings with focus on CSA subconsultants’ portions of projects, as needed.

Lead or support organization wide (or department specific) special projects

Support Project Managers with project planning efforts (including potentially Work Based Structures (WBS) for subconsultant’s work, engineering schedules for subcontractor’s work, etc.).
Lead the development and/or refinement of existing project specific KPI’s.
Lead the development of standard monthly reports (templates) for large capex projects.
Develop Assistant Project Manager (APM) role for large capex projects.
Develop reports in Vantagepoint for internal assessments of client profitability and strategic fit assessment.
Develop project load curves for large capex projects.

Support Business Development efforts for large project pursuits with significant CSA scope of work

Support Pursuit Manager (PUM).
Attend pre-bid meetings and site visits for large projects with significant CSA scope.
Support PUM with identification of subconsultants and obtain subconsultants proposals.
Support PUM with proposal preparation.

Civil Engineering and/or CSA facilitator for execution of large capex projects

Support KFI Project Manager during early engineering and project development stage of projects.
Support KFI cost estimating efforts for CSA portion of project cost.
Support KFI Project Manager with active engagement with Owner’s project team – with focus on CSA portion of the project.
Develop detailed scope of work (and RFP) and solicit proposals for potential subconsultants.
Support KFI Project Manager with selection of subconsultants, on-boarding subconsultants to larger project team and getting contracts in place.
Support KFI Project Manager by playing an active role in projects focused on management of subconsultant’s work.
QA/QC review of subcontractor’s documents.
Site trips during construction phase.