We are SLR Consulting (Americas), a 1500+ team of advisory, environmental, engineering, and regulatory professionals across Canada, the United States, and LATAM. We deliver environmental and sustainability services to our clients through the integration of over 30 advisory, technical environmental, and engineering disciplines to help clients address some of their most complex challenges around sustainability. We are Making Sustainability Happen. As our new Geotechnical Engineering Practice Manager, you will play an important role on a team whose work is essential to achieving this goal. Role SLR is looking for a highly motivated individual with excellent technical, communication, and interpersonal skills to lead our North American geotechnical engineering team. This diverse position provides a great opportunity to lead a multi-national team, provide technical and operational leadership in conjunction with our other senior leaders, and drive innovative project solutions for our clients. The successful candidate will be a client-focused professional and possess experience working with clients to develop technical scopes of work, prepare proposals, and successfully manage and deliver projects, meeting SLR’s high standards for quality and client service. Ideally, you’ll have experience in identifying, developing, and pursuing business opportunities, as well as in providing mentorship and staff leadership within the geotechnical team. Responsibilities: Leading the Geotechnical Engineering practice with authenticity, purpose, and vigour Driving growth in line with market trends and opportunities, and actively manages resourcing requirements to facilitate growth Consistently achieving KPIs across the spectrum of financial metrics, responding to stretch targets as necessary Managing SLR’s commercial risk through rigorous and informed review of project work and proposals, ensuring adequate backlog and maintaining standards of excellence Using your proven leadership skills to maintain and grow a high performing practice Leading by example by working effectively across multi-disciplinary teams, fostering collaboration across practices, promoting knowledge sharing regionally and globally Ensuring the portfolio of projects with the practice is healthy, with a net positive position, and that high risks are appropriately managed Maintaining a client focus always. Engaging frequently with clients in collaboration with other business leaders to drive brand awareness, business development, and market share advancement Keeping up to date with specialist area trends and best practice, participating in technical and/or professional associations Living and breathing the SLR way through the promotion and use of consistent globally aligned systems, practices and processes Working @ SLR With us, there is no doubt you’ll grow your subject-matter expertise and industry knowledge. We care about investing in our employees for the long-run, and if you ask our team, they’ll tell you that’s just one of the many benefits of working here. We want to be a place where you can experience career growth and satisfaction for many years. Here’s what else you’ll enjoy as part of our team: Competitive total compensation package including comprehensive benefits, vacation, and a suite of wellness initiatives. The salary range for this position is $165,000+. Final agreed upon compensation will be commensurate with individual education, professional designation, experience, internal parity, and location. Full-time, permanent role with opportunities for professional growth and advancement. Qualifications/Education/Memberships: Our ideal candidate will have 20+ years’ experience as a Geotechnical Engineer, as well as: Experience managing both projects, and teams of consultants across different geographies Proven experience in operations leadership within a technical consulting or professional services environment Experience in developing practice-level business plans and achieving intended outcomes Proven people management experience across a wide area to engage, develop and retain their team Demonstrated experience in consistently achieving performance metrics and growing teams, revenue and margins Excellent business development, client management and multi-disciplinary bid execution skills Outstanding ability to understand client needs and oversee teams to meet those needs Effective communication capabilities, particularly around conveying vision, strategic intent and ability to invigorate people to bring them on the journey Competence in analytical assessments and reporting The ability to travel within the US and Canada to engage with the team personally. This job posting is for an existing vacancy. Artificial intelligence is not being used to screen, assess, or select applicants. SLR strives to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we work in, and encourages applications from traditionally underrepresented groups including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as 2SLGBTQI+, veterans, and people with disabilities. We’re Making Sustainability Happen. We don’t have all the answers to the complex sustainability challenges faced by humanity today. But we’re working on it. We are a consultancy with 4,500+ employees, working on projects in over 125 countries around the world. When you join SLR, you’ll work alongside some of the world’s leading advisors and technicians on projects of global importance in the environmental space. We know sustainability starts from within. And no matter how good we are today, we can always do better. 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