Business Group Director-Engineering, Hydrology & Design-Southeast Region

The posting, as Environmental Science Associates wrote it

Environmental Science Associates (ESA) is a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm. We plan, design, permit, mitigate, and restore for projects across our communities, infrastructure systems, open spaces, and wildlands. We are 50 years strong in 21 offices across California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southeastern United States.

Environmental Science Associates (ESA) seeks an experienced engineering business leader to guide and grow our established Southeast team of engineers and licensed professionals in Environmental Hydrology and Design (EH&D). Working with the Regional Director, you will build, develop, and lead a high-performing engineering business group and be accountable for its operational and financial performance. You will develop people, expand client relationships, and guide delivery of multi-benefit projects that restore ecosystems and help communities manage flooding and changing coastal environments. This role can be based in a hybrid arrangement from ESA’s Tampa, Orlando, Boynton Beach, Sarasota, or Pensacola offices. We are also open to remote candidates in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

Who You Are

You are an engineering or environmental design leader with demonstrated experience managing a consulting business unit. You enjoy developing people, building client relationships, and converting project acquisitions into work the team can deliver successfully. You use business data to guide staffing, utilization, pricing, and financial performance, address problems early, and hold project managers accountable while helping them succeed.

You are approachable, decisive, and generous with your knowledge. You bring the technical judgment to guide complex work, mentor future leaders, welcome different perspectives, and protect the trust and employee-owner engagement that make growth sustainable.

Required qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, hydrology, landscape architecture, or a related field.
• At least 15 years of relevant professional experience, including at least five years leading a business group or equivalent team with responsibility for people, project delivery, and business performance.
• A demonstrated record of managing staff workshare and utilization, reviewing scopes and fees, aligning staffing and pricing with delivery needs, and achieving project multiplier and profitability goals.
• Demonstrated success winning and retaining clients, developing strategic capture plans, and leading proposals.
• Managing projects and coaching project managers in financial performance.
• Technical depth in engineering, hydrology, coastal and/or freshwater habitat restoration design, geomorphology, or a related field, with the ability to lead specialists across disciplines and connect engineering decisions with ecological function, community needs, and implementation costs.
• Experience guiding complex engineering design projects from concept throug

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ough our ESOP, a 401(k) plan with company match, and paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays, to name a few.

We also provide specific programs whether you want to further your technical expertise, sharpen your business acumen, or help lead the next generation of employee-owners. We want to support you in reaching your career goals through tuition reimbursement, professional development bonuses, and attendance at conferences.
Who We Are

We are a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm who values diversity and inclusion and celebrate the differences that make each of us unique. Our culture is built on mutual respect, recognizing that our variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives leads to better solutions, which fosters our continued success for our employee-owners and clients.

In accordance with ESA’s duty and responsibility to provide and maintain a safe workplace that is free of known hazards and to minimize the exposure to potential hazards, any employee who works from an ESA office or conducts any other in-person ESA work-related activity is required to submit their proof of vaccination status or have received an approved exemption and accommodation in states which this applies.

Please note: We do NOT accept unsolicited resumes from agencies

If you are an applicant with a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability—or unable to use—the online application system and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact our Human Resources Department via email: humanresources@esassoc.com for assistance.

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ESA is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. (EOE M/V/F/D)