Highway Area Discipline Leader

The Opportunity

RS&H is currently seeking a Highway Area Discipline Lead for our Transportation Practice in our Miami or Fort Lauderdale, FL office!

Shape the Future of South Florida’s Transportation Infrastructure!

Are you ready to lead transformative highway projects and drive the growth of a dynamic team? RS&H is seeking a visionary Highway Area Discipline Leader for our South Florida transportation business within our East Region Infrastructure Business Unit. This is your opportunity to make a lasting impact on South Florida’s highways, champion innovation, and elevate your career in a leadership role.

Join RS&H and be a driving force in South Florida’s transportation future. Lead with purpose, innovate boldly, and grow your career in an environment that values your expertise and vision.

Job Summary: 

As the South Florida Highway Area Discipline Leader (ADL), you will take charge of RS&H’s South Florida Highway practice, steering both top-line growth and operational excellence. You’ll lead a talented team of professionals, fostering a culture of engagement, empowerment, and continuous improvement. You will provide leadership and oversight to a team of professionals with a shared focus on ensuring client satisfaction and quality outcomes. This includes developing and retaining existing associates, recruiting new talent and capabilities, and fostering a diverse knowledge of appropriate discipline principles and techniques.

Collaboration is essential: you will work effectively with leaders, teams, and associates across the firm to help drive success, promote teamwork, and coordinate resource levels to ensure client needs are satisfied and associates are exposed to diverse and escalating project responsibilities. Ensuring adherence to all client and regulatory requirements, you will provide expertise on standards, quality assurance, and construction methods and materials.

In summary, you will take the lead on all aspects of growing our South Florida Highway practice:

• Strategic Leadership: Take charge of RS&H’s South Florida Highway practice, steering both top-line growth and operational excellence. You’ll lead a talented team of 10 professionals, fostering a culture of engagement, empowerment, and continuous improvement.
• Business Development: Be the face of RS&H in the region—cultivate client relationships, drive brand recognition, and lead winning pursuits for major FDOT and county projects.
• Project Delivery: Oversee large-scale conventional and design-build projects, ensuring quality, efficiency, and client satisfaction. Your expertise will shape the future of a wide range of arterials, interstates, and interchanges across South Florida.
• Operational Excellence: Drive operational excellence, including profitability, operational efficiency, resource management, and quality deliverables, and provide subject matter expertise.
• Innovation & Influence: Champion new technologies, tools, and training. Your insights will help set the direction for the discipline, with strategies that deliver measurable business growth over the next 1–3 years.
• People Management: Manage a team that supports the successful delivery of large, complex projects, applying your knowledge of project management principles and practices, and enhancing strong client relationships and growth of our portfolio.
• Collaboration: Inspire and mentor highway service group staff, coordinate with other highway leaders and key stakeholders in the East Region, and create an environment where ideas thrive and careers flourish.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited university.
• Florida PE registration and at least 15 years of progressive roadway/highway engineering experience.
• Proven leadership in managing multi-discipline teams and complex projects for FDOT and county clients.
• Success in leading and winning major Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District Four and/or District Six project pursuits.
• Expertise in MicroStation and OpenRoads Designer (ORD), with a track record of overseeing high-quality deliverables.
• Strong business acumen, project management skills, and the ability to build lasting client partnerships.
• Experience as Engineer of Record for a variety of highway projects, including Limited Access Highways, Tolled Expressways, Urban Arterial Reconstruction and Widenings, and Milling & Resurfacings.
• Ability to estimate construction costs and provide post-design services during project construction.
• Valid U.S. driver’s license and willingness to travel as needed.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with both conventional and alternative delivery projects (Design-Bid-Build, Adjust Score Design-Build, Phased Design-Build).
• Background as a Project Manager or subject matter expert within Owner’s Representative Contracts for major corridors.
• Expertise in complex interchange and alternative intersection design.

Physical & Other Requirements:

• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods, occasionally stoop, and lift/move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities.

The Team

From managed toll lanes and long-range corridor plans, to complex segmental bridges, our teams are providing the highest quality infrastructure and facility solutions. Each day, we partner with transportation agencies and local governments across the country to keep our communities moving. By joining our team, you too can lead the evolution of transportation.

The Company

Employee-owned, RS&H is one of the nation’s leading architecture, engineering, and consulting firms, with associates who work hard every day to create tomorrow together. We offer an exceptional journey from start to future. Our integrated teams translate experience into insight, turn challenges into opportunities, and build relationships that are as strong as the buildings and infrastructure we deliver together. We attribute our success to our unwavering commitment to our core values: integrity, accountability, curiosity, and teamwork.