Vice President

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Vice President

Full Time Direct Murfreesboro, TN, US

3 days ago Requisition ID: 1777

Raba Kistner, Inc. is a premier Engineering Consulting and Program Management firm. Our purpose is to build a better and more sustainable world for our employees, their families, our clients, and the communities we serve. Our Core Values are:

• Community “We care for our communities”
• Integrity “We act with integrity”
• Passion “We infuse passion into everything we do”
• Quality “We believe quality comes from a culture of innovation and continuous improvement”
• Growth “We dedicate ourselves to personal and business growth”

Raba Kistner is seeking a dependable Vice President to join our Infrastructure team in the Nashville and Murfreesboro, TN . Under direction, responsible for managing financial, business development, personnel, service delivery, and quality for corporate services involving engineering service. Other duties include:

• Develop budgets, monitor attainment, pursue receipt of revenues, and oversee expenditures to achieve corporate goals.
• Manage risks in the execution of services decreasing exposure to litigation, unauthorized scope creep, and out of scope performance.
• Provide quarterly and annual revenue projections and monitor achievement of goals.
• Develop and maintain relationships with current and prospective clients.
• Lead, or participate in, regional office business development programs.
• Prepare, assist in preparing and/or approve proposals and qualification statements.
• Act as consultant to departments, project managers, and regional office principles.
• Serve as Project Manager, Project Principle or Project Director.
• Implement and oversee compliance with administrative activities including human resources, training programs, and health and safety.
• Plan, schedule, coordinate, monitor and report on service delivery to clients.
• Identify needs for, and evaluate development of, personnel competency.
• Review implementation of established procedures and implement preventive and corrective actions for compliance.
• Follow established, and assist with development of, processes to assure cost-effective application of technologies and services.
• Initiate and support quality management activities and performance management measures to provide high quality services.
• Protect RKI’s confidential financial, business and marketing plans, financial records, and tactical and strategic operating plans.
• Establish a positive and progressive culture within the RKI office and project locations that maximizes overall corporate performance and staff development.
• Technical and professional development of staff.
• Maintenance of license and/or certifications at the time of employment or obtained during employment.
• Interpret, organize, execute, and coordinate assignments.
• Review procedures of assigned supervisors and/or their direct reports and clarify procedures.
• Assign work priority tasks to assigned direct reports.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field.
• P.E. License in applicable state, or if out of state must obtain P.E. license in applicable state within 6 months of hire.
• Twenty-five (25) years progressively responsible experience in transportation engineering with fifteen (15) years of experience in personnel, service delivery, and financial management.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license within the applicable jurisdiction and meet firm’s auto insurability requirements.

Good oral and written communications skills and ability to maintain effective working relationships with internal and external personnel. Intermediate in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). Able to travel to project sites and maneuver over rough and uneven terrain.

The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms and drive vehicle short and/or long distances; continuously talk or hear and taste or smell; occasionally, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and lift and/or move up to 25 pounds with or without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

May be occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, wet or humid conditions, extreme cold, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock, risk of radiation, and vibration. Regularly work near moving mechanical parts and outdoor weather conditions.

This position may require protracted or irregular hours. Flexibility to work irregular hours is necessary due to client needs. Work responsibilities may require out of town travel to Raba Kistner offices, client offices and project locations.