Team Leader - Utility Infrastructure
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Designworks TalentEngineering
Dallas, TXFull-TimeLead
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- English
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- LeadershipProject ManagementBusiness DevelopmentStrategyFinancial ManagementMentoring
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering
- Professional Engineer (PE) license in Texas
- 10+ years of utility infrastructure engineering experience
- Strong background in water and wastewater treatment facilities, distribution and collection systems, and lift stations
- Proven history of high client satisfaction and repeat work
- Confident, positive communicator at all organizational levels
- Demonstrated success leading, mentoring, and developing teams
- Experience supporting proposals, presentations, and winning new work
- Ability to contribute to business planning, growth strategy, and practice expansion
- Strong track record of profitable project delivery
- Established relationships with local municipalities and utility clients
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day operations for the Dallas water utility infrastructure practice.
- Oversee workflow, staffing plans, utilization, and profitability.
- Prepare monthly staffing and financial forecasts.
- Maintain visibility into project performance, billings, and margins.
- Partner with senior leadership to align resources and drive growth.
- Identify hiring needs and play a key role in recruiting top engineering talent.
- Foster a high-performance, collaborative, and engaged team culture.
- Lead performance reviews and support employee development and retention.
- Actively mentor Engineers and Project Managers at all career stages.
- Build technical depth and leadership capability across the team.
- Develop Project Managers into well-rounded leaders of scope, schedule, budget, and client relationships.
- Coach PMs on proposals, fee development, billing, and financial performance.
- Create and track individualized development plans and progression timelines.
- Provide technical leadership across drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater projects.
- Lead and oversee studies, designs, and complex utility infrastructure solutions.
- Anticipate and resolve technical challenges to keep projects moving efficiently.
- Serve as a go-to technical resource for both staff and clients.
- Lead proposal development, fee negotiations, and contract execution.
- Monitor project financial performance and guide PMs toward consistent delivery.
- Ensure schedules, budgets, and quality standards are met across all projects.
- Contribute to overall group and cross-discipline profitability.
- Ensure rigorous technical review and quality control at all project stages.
- Leverage firmwide expertise to deliver best-in-class solutions.
- Build long-term, trusted relationships with municipal and utility clients.
- Identify expansion opportunities with existing clients and support new pursuits.
- Partner with business development and sales teams to grow the practice.
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