What would it feel like to become an owner of a company guided by engaged and empowered employee-owners like yourself? To have the encouragement to run with innovative ideas? To know your opinion is valued and your voice is heard? Wouldn't you love to work in an atmosphere of transparency, respect, and accountability with an emphasis on family values?

Then you belong at SEH.

SEH is expanding into Florida! We are hiring a talented Civil Engineer to join our growing team in the North Florida area.

Your options as a civil engineer are endless at SEH. Some engineer better communities – complete streets, safer sidewalks, more sustainable utilities, and trails and parks. Others specialize in large-scale projects, like stormwater management facilities, watershed basin studies, master stormwater plans, dams, landfills, harbors/marinas, ports, airport layouts, structural retaining walls, bridge projects, water and sewer projects and geotechnical projects. Regardless of the project, you’ll have your hands in the mix through all phases of a project: planning, pre-design, design, contract documentation, bidding and construction. As people walk, drive, bike or commute through a community or across a landscape, your expertise is positively impacting their daily lives. SEH is Building a Better World for All of Us.

Your addition to our Civil Engineering team in the Tallahassee or Panhandle / North Florida area will be instrumental to our expansion. You will help provide technical advice, lead projects, meet with our clients and focus on timely and profitable projects. Your ability to pursue and secure project work is important, building client relationships in conjunction with regional marketing priorities is high priority.

The Opportunity:

• Immediate involvement in on-going projects to expand into new markets
• Provide technical advice, lead projects and teams, manage client relationships and deliver profitable projects to grow our Civil Practice
• Work in a collaborative team environment where you’ll impact team decisions and mentor/supervise our junior engineers and technicians
• Work from home flexibility. Relocation is possible but not required.

What you will be doing:

• Building client relationships
• Planning, developing, coordinating, and directing multiple projects for a variety of clients
• Understanding market needs and trends to identify and act on opportunities to win work
• Maintaining close relationships with clients throughout development of projects and after completion
• Hiring, managing, mentoring, and working with staff as needed to provide a positive team environment.
• Maintaining an understanding of relevant regulatory programs, funding opportunities, design standards and procedures through active participation in continuing education programs and professional associations
• Representing SEH with local governments, municipalities and other agencies at project and public meetings
• Responding to RFQ’s
• Preparing project approaches, scopes and fees required to complete projects
• Presenting proposals to clients, interviewing for projects, and selecting project teams
• Determining major project design decisions in conjunction with client

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or other related engineering field of study
• Registered as a Professional Engineer in the State of Florida
• Minimum of eight (8) years previous experience with design, construction and project management of municipal infrastructure and/or land development projects
• Must be located in Tallahassee or Panhandle / North Florida area.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in proposal writing and client management; demonstrated ability to develop new business opportunities and win project proposals
• Experience with water and wastewater projects
• Previous experience managing a staff of engineering professionals and serving as a technical mentor for junior level staff
• Current affiliation and/or membership with local, state or national Civil Engineering societies and associations

Who we are

Better Places. Clean Water. Renewing Infrastructure. Improving Mobility. Together with clients, we’re simplifying the world’s most complex challenges. And we’ve been doing this since 1927. SEH is employee-owned and our 900 engineers, architects, planners, scientists and a wide array of professionals unite behind our core purpose of Building a Better World for All of Us®. You’ll find our employee-owners located across the U.S. and evidence of our work in nearly every state.

Base compensation is expected to be in the range of $110,000 and $130,000 based on skill set and experience. Check out our full benefits package at, SEH Hiring Journey

The selected candidate must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future. We are unable to provide or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.

For confidential consideration, apply online or send your resume and salary requirements via fax to 651.490.2138. Please refer to the job title if you choose to fax.
Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees according to all applicable equal opportunity and affirmative action laws, directives and regulations of federal, state and local governing bodies and agencies. In keeping with this commitment, it is the policy of Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, marital status, familial status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or status as a covered veteran. Women and minorities encouraged to apply.

Notice to Third Party Agencies: SEH does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, staffing services, or other employment agencies. If a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed Service Agreement by SEH’s Director of Talent Attraction expressly requesting recruitment/staffing services for specific position(s), SEH reserves the right to pursue and hire these candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service. In such cases, any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, are deemed to be the property of SEH.

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