Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives

• Provide technical mentorship and oversight for operational teams, ensuring excellence in project delivery, safety practices, and risk management.
• Serve as a Principal Engineer on complex projects, offering peer reviews and ensuring the accuracy and technical soundness of all deliverables.
• Evaluate and enhance the technical skills of geotechnical engineering teams through training programs and professional development initiatives.
• Actively seek out new business opportunities, fostering relationships with past and potential clients.
• Serve as the primary client contact for high-level engagements, ensuring satisfaction and alignment with client goals.
• Collaborate on proposal development and identify strategic growth opportunities across markets.
• Work closely with talent acquisition and operations management to identify hiring needs and recruit top-tier engineering talent.
• Work closely with the university talent team on recruiting efforts, developing relationships with key institutions and participating in career fairs.
• Mentor engineers and create structured short- and long-term career goals, reviewing progress semiannually.
• Identify opportunities to establish new service lines, including geophysical, geo-structural, pavement design, coastal engineering, and other specialized areas.
• Define personnel, equipment, and training needs for successful implementation of new services across subsidiary offices.
• Act as a public relations ambassador, representing the company's capabilities and expertise to external stakeholders.
• Participate in or lead the Principal Engineer review committee, evaluating and approving candidates for this role.
• Provide strategic support for acquisitions and other initiatives directed by the subsidiary and corporate leadership.
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering
• Active Professional Engineer (P.E.) license in the state(s) you work.
• Minimum of 20 years in civil and geotechnical engineering, including senior leadership roles with extensive experience in strategic leadership and team development.
• Demonstrate technical excellence, leadership, safety, and professionalism.
• Excellent performance history in project management, communication, risk management, and technical knowledge
• Communicate proficiently, employing strong interpersonal skills to engage with diverse stakeholders and convey complex data in a clear and actionable manner.
• Extensive experience in various aspects of driving strategic initiatives across organizations. Ability to enact change quickly and to influence key stakeholders and operational owners through well-articulated strategies backed up with metric driven value statements.
• Ability to make decisions independently and to assume higher-level leadership responsibilities in critical situations.
• Ability to promote innovative ideas and accept the risks that are required to lead change.
• Display an effective consultative and influencing approach.
• Display maturity, flexibility, comfort with ambiguity and a sense of optimism/can-do attitude.
• Proven ability to build and lead and interact with diverse and distributed teams from various internal andexternal organizations across multiple locations
• Strong and creative problem-solving, critical thinking, and strategic planning skills, including the ability to disaggregate problems and structure complex issues.
• Strong presentation skills including the development of PowerPoint presentations.
• Strong collaboration and influence skills, demonstrating an ability to navigate organizational relationships, incorporate differing perspectives, develop recommendations, and generate consensus with partners across teams.
• Extensive experience with client relationship management, contract negotiation, and financial oversight across multiple regions.
• Proven track record in mentoring and training engineering professionals, including Principal Engineers.
• Deep knowledge of specialized service lines and emerging technologies in the industry.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships across diverse sectors, including private, public, and federal clients.

ECS Group of Companies (ECS) was founded in 1988 with the goal to raise the standards of professional engineering consulting. Today, we are a leader in geotechnical, construction materials, environmental and facilities consulting services. We are employee-owned with more than 2,700 employees in 90+ offices and testing facilities across the United States. ECS is currently ranked #64 in Engineering News-Record's Top 500 Design Firms (April 2024) and #28 in Zweig Group's Hot Firm List (June 2024). To learn more about us, click here.

We love our employees and we show this through providing some great benefits, including paid time off, health and other insurance plans, retirement and college savings plans, and more. Click here to learn more about the great benefits at ECS.

ECS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.