Technology Practice Leader - TSM&O (Finance)
DESCRIPTION
Michael Baker International is actively seeking a Technology Practice Lead to guide our efforts with Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSM&O) within the State of Florida, including connected and automated vehicles (C/AV), traffic signal systems, intelligent transportation systems, arterial management, and managed lanes. This position is responsible for the day-to-day management of Michael Baker's TSM&O efforts, including the identification, pursuit, and execution of TSM&O type work with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), and cities and counties throughout Florida.
The position will manage, either directly or indirectly, existing Michael Baker staff with the intent to grow a team of professionals within the various Michael Baker Florida offices as well staff that could potentially be embedded within FDOT. In addition to managing staff, responsibilities include managing project schedules and budgets, coordination of multiple technical services across disciplines, handling project reporting and finances, and developing and maintaining relationships with clients. The selected candidate will perform technical oversight, staff development, contract management, technical and cost proposal development, project performance and client management.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participate in our emerging transportation technology practice that focuses on national projects and initiatives
- Corroborate internal and external business relationships, and recognizes new target opportunities within transportation technologies and TSM&O
- Provide technical leadership and guide junior staff in system engineering planning, analysis, and design for projects related to connected vehicles, automated vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, managed lanes, traffic signal systems and other transportation operations and management solutions
- Provide transportation systems planning, engineering and design as well as develop requirements and specifications
- Provide thought leadership on the adoption, utilization, and impacts of emerging technologies
- Lead and guide other staff on the system engineering aspects of projects
- Provide clients with sound advice and information on local conditions that may require changes in technology or system improvements based on technology, industry advancements, or policy changes
- Work on various phases of projects such as scoping studies, technical studies, preparation of specifications, technical plans, data analysis, system implementation, and validation
- Provide technical consulting and subject matter expertise to clients
- Lead and support the development and responses to RFPs
- Identify skill gaps and recruit additional staff to support the practice
PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS
- 15+ years of experience in progressive project management and client management including administrative and supervisory experience withing the engineering industry
- Effectively manage clients and subconsultants
- Expertise with C/AV, arterial traffic management and signal systems and managed lanes
- Located or willing to relocate to one of Michael Baker's five Florida offices: Tallahassee (preferred), Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa or West Palm Beach
- Professional Engineer (PE) License in the State of Florida
- Knowledge of the Florida TSMO market and relationships with FDOT Central Office and/or District Traffic Engineering and Operations Office is a plus
Based in Pittsburgh and with nearly 100 offices nationwide, we partner with clients on everything from roads, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, and airports, to water treatment plants, arctic oil pipelines, environmental restoration and specialized overseas construction. We serve as a trusted adviser to the communities we serve, making them safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more prosperous.
We provide visionary leadership in facilitating transformational change for our clients. Our work delivers differentiating innovations and dedicated experts who challenge the status quo and share a world of diverse experience and an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit. We deliver quality of life.
We Make a Difference.
Michael Baker International is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Michael Baker International provides equal employment opportunity for all persons, in all facets of employment. Michael Baker International maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks. As a covered federal contractor, Michael Baker International is required to comply with Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, and its implementing guidelines. If the federal vaccine mandate is found to be valid and enforceable, this will include ensuring that all covered employees are fully vaccinated for COVID-19, except in limited circumstances where there is a legal entitlement to an accommodate. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified and all will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected status.
EEO is the Law. Applicants to and employees of Michael Baker International are protected under Federal law from discrimination.Michael Baker International is actively seeking a Technology Practice Lead to guide our efforts with Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSM&O) within the State of Florida, including connected and automated vehicles (C/AV), traffic signal systems, intelligent transportation systems, arterial management, and managed lanes. This position is responsible for the day-to-day management of Michael Baker's TSM&O efforts, including the identification, pursuit, and execution of TSM&O type work with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), and cities and counties throughout Florida.
