What you will be doing:
- Lead our Innovation Program, including oversight of targeted investments, culture development for innovation and creativity across the company, and internal celebrations of both idea sharing and successful initiatives
- Develop and guide our Discipline Groups (focus areas of our Practices) to gain company alignment and consistency with our strategic direction
- Support the development of the technical portion of our internal training program, including partnership with our HR team and office leaders to implement trainings, monitor skill depth/needs across the company, and provide input to our recruiting strategy
- Support external branding/promotion activities by partnering with our Discipline/Practice Leaders and our Director of Marketing to identify conferences to target, events/initiatives to sponsor, and external communications to promote our practices
- Participate in our Strategic Plan Management Team (SPMT) to shape and implement our 3-year plans
- Engage in strategic professional societies and conferences
- Develop new client relationships for DKS and build on current client relationships, including partnerships with other consulting firms
- Continue to lead your practice through your technical expertise and/or seller/doer role, including generating new work and guiding successful project delivery.
- Assure client satisfaction through implementation of our Client Experience (CX) and QC/QA initiatives
- Work with, train, and mentor less experienced staff
- Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
- Recruit and develop talent to grow our practice
- 12+ years of experience within the transportation consulting industry in Transportation Planning-Analysis, Design, or Technology-Operations.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Planning, or similar field
- Experience and relationships within key professional societies, including participation in the respective conferences and committees (TRB, ITE, etc.)
- Technical proficiency/understanding across our practice areas to support a broad-perspective in innovation/creativity
- Experience in developing and leading firmwide initiatives, including change management processes
- A positive growth mindset including enjoying challenges, taking initiative (including smart risks), and continuously learning
- A desire to lead, including effectively influencing others to consistently work towards a common goal
- An ability to analyze opportunities (including identifying risks/pitfalls) to inform balanced investment decisions and plan for success
- An enthusiastic collaborator
- Ability to regularly travel to collaborate with other leaders and groups
DKS offers its employee-owners a comprehensive benefits package. We have designed a benefit plan we
are proud of. One that encourages happy, healthy, and engaged employee-owners. We offer:
- Vacation & Sick Leave
- 8 Paid Holidays
- Employer paid Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance Coverage
- 100% DKS paid Medical premium for our employee-owners
- 80% DKS paid Medical premium for spouse and dependents of our employee-owners
- Extremely affordable Dental & Vision Plans
- Flexible Spending Account (Health Care & Dependent Care), Transit Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account Options
- Transit Subsidy
- Pre-tax Commuter Option
- DKS funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- 401k Pre-tax and Roth options
- Flexible Spending Account (Health Care & Dependent Care), Transit Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account Options
- 401k Pre-tax and Roth options
- Paid Jury/Witness Duty
- Paid Bereavement
- Leave without Pay
- Annual Bonus Program
- Referral Bonus Program
- Alternative/Flexible Work Schedule
- Transit Subsidy / Bike Voucher
- Pre-tax Commuter Option
- Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement
- Training and Educational Assistance
- Professional Registration Award
- Technical & Professional Societies
- Conferences & Seminars
- Years of Service Awards