Senior Project Manager / Practice Builder, Environmental Services

Kimley-Horn is seeking a Senior Project Manager/Practice Builder for their Environmental Services team in Indianapolis, IN. The role involves leading business development, managing client relationships, and overseeing projects while mentoring staff. Candidates should have a relevant degree and at least 10 years of experience in environmental project management. Responsibilities include strategic planning, client engagement, and ensuring project profitability.
Overview

Kimley-Horn has a challenging and rewarding opportunity for a motivated Senior Project Manager/Practice Builder to start an Environmental Services team in Indianapolis, Indiana. This individual will have an entrepreneurial spirit and create a vision for growth for an Environmental Services practice while growing their own projects/clients and supporting the Transportation projects in the office.

Responsibilities

Ideal candidates will have knowledge and experience in one or more of the following: NEPA environmental document preparation, waterway permitting, site assessment and remediation, field investigations, regulatory compliance and reporting, public engagement/involvement, and other specialties.

Practice Builders are encouraged to pursue opportunities that fuel their professional passion and contribute to firmwide success. This position leads business development efforts, manages relationships with key clients, and oversees all project tasks while mentoring the growth of younger staff. The successful candidate will have a great deal of autonomy to lead, direct, and grow their business. Our system for rewards is designed to recognize staff as they move along a path to success. Bonuses, promotions, path to ownership recognition, and other forms of advancement are performance based, because as a firm we focus on results.

Leadership responsibilities include:
• Lead an environmental team while building and managing relationships with key clients.
• Operate with integrity and sound business principles.
• Provide practice vision, business planning and strategy, establishing goals, building, and maintaining positive client relationships.
• Open communication with partners and team, along with growing and directing an Environmental Services practice.
• Manage projects profitably, transition work to qualified staff, grow and mentor staff, help recruit, and be a positive role model.

Management responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Meeting or exceeding client expectations.
• Identifying and tracking leads.
• Making presentations, writing proposals and scopes of work.
• Establish budgets, ensuring quality and timeliness of deliverables, and supervising the execution of work.
• Accounting, administrative, marketing, recruiting, IT and production support will be provided.

Qualifications

Position Requirements:
• Bachelors (BS) or Masters (MS) in Environmental Science, Environmental Policy, Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, Engineering, or related degree.
• 10 or more years of relevant experience managing environmental tasks/projects in Indiana
• Relevant professional certifications (AICP, PWS, CPESC, etc.) are desirable, but not required
• Client contacts and relationships with local, regional, or state agencies.
• Business development skills and the proven ability to win work.
• Experience with NEPA process in transportation projects.
• Experience with water use permitting rules and regulations.
• Experience with geographic information systems (GIS), specifically ArcGIS and/or CAD.
• Experience writing proposals, scopes of work, and budgets for projected work.
• Ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to manage & mentor staff, and direct resources effectively in a positive manner.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects profitably.

At Kimley-Horn, one of the nation's premier planning and design consultants, our professionals are experts in many disciplines yet share one passion: making our clients successful. Ranked as one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” Kimley-Horn prides itself on hiring high-achieving, dedicated, and reliable professionals. With success, this individual will enjoy the rewards of an impressive bonus program with the potential to advance to ownership.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for Kimley-Horn in the U.S. without employer sponsorship. We do not typically sponsor H1-B or any other work visa petitions at this time.