What would it feel like to be part of a company guided by engaged and empowered employee-owners? To have the encouragement to run with innovative ideas and grow our business? 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?

Then you belong at SEH.

SEH is expanding into Virgnia & North Carolina, and your addition to our Airport Planning and Design team 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. You can work remote and be located in VA or NC!

Join a team of diverse airport planners and engineers (many of whom are pilots or aviation enthusiasts) who focus on collaboration and innovation to create a better airport experience for airport operators, pilots and crew, and travelers. This team of experts helps chart the future of the airport industry through planning, environmental work, architectural, design, construction, and administrative services. At SEH, you will have the opportunity to use your talents to improve airports of all sizes, including general aviation, reliever airports and commercial service airports.

Do you want to work somewhere that offers a fun, flexible and fast-paced environment? We are looking for an enthusiastic Airport Engineer and Project Manager who can sell and lead projects in Virginia and surrounding states to join our Airport Planning and Design team!

What Can You Gain From This Opportunity?

• Join our fast-paced, collaborative and growing team! The position will get immediate involvement in on-going projects, with the opportunity to lead development into new markets.
• Opportunities for continued education, conferences, and technical training
• Opportunity to acquire, lead, manage and deliver projects of varying size and complexity
• Develop client relationships throughout the East and Southeast at commercial service and general aviation airports
• Flexible hours and competitive pay

Responsibilities may include:

• Business development
• Project management
• Design
• Quality control
• Team leadership for a wide range of public facilities at General Aviation and Commercial Service Airports
• Occasional travel

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering or a related field.
• Professional Engineer, or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire
• Minimum of twelve (12) years’ experience working in airport engineering or related field
• Experience with FAA and DOT funded projects
• Understanding of state and federal grant programs, grant administration, and project formulation
• Knowledge of FAA design standards
• Demonstrated strong communication skills and client relations skills
• Ability to lead project efforts, including proposal preparation, project scoping, budget development, client communication, and project quality review
• Must be experienced coordinating and leading client and public presentations
• Ability to travel occasionally as needed for team meetings, client consultations, on-site inspections, etc. Overnight travel may be required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience and working knowledge of AutoCAD
• Project management experience
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, etc.)
• Strong business development skills including preparation of proposals, contracts, and business plans
• Airport planning experience

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 $129,000 to $165,000 but will be based on skill set and experience. Additional compensation available in bonuses!! 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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