Regional Operations Director

Position Summary

Join our partner firm Cranston, as the Regional Operations Director in Charleston and lead the charge in driving our ambitious growth plan. In this pivotal role, you will build and guide multidisciplinary engineering teams, ensuring seamless communication and alignment with our broader company objectives. You will integrate corporate policies into daily operations and foster a cohesive office culture. Collaborating closely with corporate management, you will implement region-wide initiatives and strategies. Additionally, you will spearhead business development efforts, pursuing new opportunities and positioning our team to win more projects, thereby increasing our market share. Your leadership will be crucial in overseeing the delivery of projects for city, state, commercial, and private clients, making a lasting impact on the region's infrastructure and development.

Perks and Benefits

• Bi-Annual Profit/Bonus Distributions: Reap the rewards of your hard work with exciting bi-annual profit and bonus distributions.
• 401(k) Contribution Match: Supercharge your retirement savings with our competitive 401(k) contribution match.
• Competitive Salary: Benefit from a competitive salary that truly values your expertise and helps you build a bright financial future.
• Entrepreneurial Culture: Thrive in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment that champions innovation and offers limitless growth opportunities for ambitious professionals.
• Flexible Schedule: Enjoy the freedom of a flexible schedule, allowing you to balance work and life seamlessly.
• Collaborative Learning & Career Development: Immerse yourself in a vibrant, collaborative atmosphere that fosters multidisciplinary learning and provides abundant career advancement opportunities.

Company Overview

Cranston, a proud member of the HFW Companies network, has been a cornerstone in the civil and structural engineering, landscape architecture, planning, and surveying sectors for over half a century. Our expertise spans across municipal, private development, transportation, and water resource projects. We are dedicated to making communities safer, healthier, more accessible, and sustainable. With a legacy of passion and integrity, Cranston has built a reputation on leading transformative changes and guiding our project partners through complex challenges. Our commitment to collaborative excellence ensures that we deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions that enhance the quality of life in the communities we serve.

At Cranston, our mission is to empower communities to thrive. We achieve this by leveraging our diverse expertise and fostering a collaborative culture that values trust, respect, and innovation. Our team is dedicated to solving infrastructure problems and improving the quality of life through sustainable and resilient design. We work closely with our clients, ensuring that our projects not only meet but exceed expectations. Through our operations and a cohesive office culture, we continue to build lasting partnerships and make a tangible impact on the regions we serve.

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Cranston Core values

• Collaboration - A collaborative culture allows us to leverage our diversity of expertise and experience to achieve superior results.
• Relationships -Trust means everything to us, and we strive to earn it through long-term relationships built on a foundation of respect, reliability, fairness, and honesty.
• Problem-solving - We make it a priority to help guide communities and clients through a rigorous, collaborative process aimed at resolving complex infrastructure design challenges with innovative, cost-effective solutions that promote sustainability and improved quality of life.
• Drive for excellence - We foster a learning culture that leverages a diversity of technical expertise, shared experience, and strong leadership from our team and partner network to drive excellence and achieve the best design solutions possible.
• Entrepreneurial spirit - We take ownership of and responsibility for our work and our collective success, encouraging an employee culture that places a high value on individual creative initiative, exploration of new ideas, innovation, and a bold pursuit of transformative change.

Essential Responsibilities

• Develop the commercial vision and support business plans to drive the region's growth, leveraging a strong understanding of the local marketplace, competitive landscape, and opportunities
• Work closely with the Vice President of Operations and local teams on the development and implementation of local marketing and growth strategies. Enforce the application of marketing best practices and ensure the office is actively working toward meeting business plan goals and objectives. Stay apprised of key/strategic opportunities for the office and ensure pursuit compliance with Company business development practices
• Represent the company at client meetings, industry events, and other business functions. Develop relationships with local leaders from key teaming partner firms and take active leadership roles in professional organizations at the local level. Support office in developing strategic teaming partnerships and subsequent agreements.
• Support the development of office-level budget plans to support the regional business plan and encourage strong analysis for growth in an area or discipline.
• Assess and anticipate the organization's talent needs to best understand current and future leadership gaps and bench strength, and then design and implement a comprehensive leadership development strategy to meet current and future needs.
• Ensure the profitability of the regional office and its projects using company best practices for project management
• Measure and monitor budget and operational performance and communicate key metrics and information regularly to the leadership team
• Ensure the office complies with applicable laws, regulations, and corporate policies/procedures.
• Ensure the flow of communication within the office and region, through regular meetings, written communications, and informal communication, to ensure the effective sharing of critical information, efficient decision-making, team engagement, and collaboration.
• Maintain client communication in coordination with other offices and ensure satisfactory client experience, project production, and Quality Assurance / Quality Control procedures
• Maintain a stabilized business and office culture. Engage and inspire the team, with a focus on sustainable growth through recruitment, retention, professionalism and professional development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Structural Engineering or a related field; a master's degree can be an advantage.
• 15 or more years of experience in Engineering or related field.
• Demonstrated leadership of multi-discipline engineering/design teams - preferably with civil, structural, or landscape architect experience.
• Ability to foster and nurture the "One Cranston" culture based on company core values.
• Ability to set and execute a strategic plan for office and regional growth and fostering accountability managers.
• Progressive ability, capacity, and aptitude, in administration to plan, organize, direct, and coordinate teams for technical work and to obtain cooperation from others.
• PE or RLA required.

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