Director of Operations

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Company: HNTB
Location: Ames, IA

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What We’re Looking For

Serve as principal firm representative in a geographic office location. Responsible for overall administration of office including business development, technical delivery, client relationships, and personnel so as to operate within the established goals and budgets for the office.

Primary Focus Will Include:

  • Overseeing Des Moines, IA office location

  • Hiring and recruiting for location

  • Collaborating with HNTB Central States Offices in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma on developing, implementing, and executing a strategic plan.

  • Maintaining and managing laddered relationships with our clients in Iowa

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:

  • Master’s degree in Engineering

  • PE/AICP

What You’ll Need

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Actively manages assigned project management activities (client audits, project scope, schedule, budget and quality management) and performs technical discipline tasks including research, reports, design, specifications and plan preparation.

  • Responsible for day-to-day management including building, facilities, personnel/staffing projections, office services and production schedules.

  • Implements and executes the firm’s Sophisticated Sales Approach, Sophisticated Contracting Approach and Sophisticated Delivery Approach (SSA, SCA, SDA).

  • Responsible for the hiring, supervision, mentoring, professional development, evaluation and termination of department staff members.

  • Establishes priorities and work schedules and coordinates resource needs/assignments.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

  • 16 years relevant experience

  • 4 years supervisory experience

About Us

For more than a century, HNTB has helped deliver infrastructure solutions that best meet the unique needs of our clients. With client relationships spanning decades, we understand infrastructure life cycles and have the perspective to solve technical challenges with clarity and imagination. We are far more than a design firm. We see and help address far-reaching issues of financing, legislation, design, construction, community outreach and ongoing operations. As employee-owners committed to the highest levels of performance, we enable clients to achieve their goals and inspiring visions.

Just like we are committed to delivering for our clients, HNTB is also committed to delivering for you by offering benefits to protect the health of you and your family, help you balance family and career, and build your savings for retirement.

HNTB Corporation is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran.

The HNTB Companies are an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, citizenship status, or other status protected by law. In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, we will hire only U.S. citizens and aliens lawfully authorized to work in the United States (if the position is or will be one which is subject to U.S. law). We will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individual with a disability where appropriate.