Transportation Geospatial Practice Leader

Responsibilities

• Team Management: Accountable for practice revenue, backlog, profitability, utilization, client satisfaction, and talent development. Responsible for achieving annual business plan targets and delivering sustainable growth.
• Manage project/subproject managers in Colorado, Ohio, Texas and Virginia generating a minimum $12M annual sales goal.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to foster individual career growth through 1:1 meetings and regular team meetings. Encourage open, two-way dialogue. Identify skill gaps and growth opportunities, create career paths aligned with individual aspirations.
• Ensure a keen understanding of how the team's efforts connect to the firm's broader business goals.
• Provide regular feedback, recognize achievements and address issues early.
• Client Management: Serve as the Client Manager for strategic clients, providing day-to-day interactions, project scope/estimate development, innovative solutions, invoicing and evaluations.
• Operational Excellence: Monitor KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), revenue goals, backlog, and utilization metrics; implement corrective actions as needed. Ensure compliance with Woolpert's project management standards and transportation geospatial-specific workflows.
• Collaboration: Partner across Transportation, Aviation, Energy, Water, and Federal markets to identify opportunities for cross-selling and delivery of integrated solutions.
• Career Development: Implement structured career pathways for project managers and technical staff. Support training compliance and mentorship programs to build leadership capacity within the practice.
• Governance & Authority: Maintain signing authority for Transportation Geospatial proposals and contracts per corporate guidelines, Ensure adherence to Woolpert's risk management and quality assurance standards.
• Success in the First Year
• Develop and implement a strategic growth plan.
• Improve forecasting accuracy and project performance metrics.
• Strengthen key client relationships.
• Expand Transportation Geospatial backlog.
• Build succession plans for critical leadership positions.
• Advance adoption of innovative geospatial technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Land Surveying or related field; PLS license preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of exp

Benefits

Additional Information

We seek to move the world forward through innovative thinking. Woolpert is an award-winning, global leader in architecture, engineering, and geospatial services. We blend design excellence with cutting-edge technology to deliver exceptional client value. Our team is passionate about their work and committed to building the next generation of industry leaders, and as a certified Great Place to Work ® , Woolpert embraces progress and innovation to create limitless opportunities for career growth. Position Overview Woolpert is hiring a Practice Leader to join our dynamic Transportation Geospatial Team in our growing Transportation Market. This position reports to the Transportation Market Director and is responsible for spearheading strategic growth, and operational excellence. Champions innovation through adoption of emerging technologies including AI-enabled workflows, reality capture, mobile mapping, automation, and digital delivery solutions. This role combines the firmwide Practice Leader leadership framework with geospatial-specific responsibilities, ensuring alignment with market strategies and objectives. The Practice Leader serves as the primary business leader for the practice, accountable for financial performance, client satisfaction, and talent development. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.

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