Practice Director

Primary Function

Oversee, manage and grow a team of professionals across 5 Florida offices (Miami, Tampa, Sarasota, Cape Coral and Ocala), providing leadership and support in the areas of project pursuits, proposals, budgeting, and quality control, hiring of survey team personnel, safety, and client relationships. This person regularly interacts with leadership across other business units as representative for Ardurra’s Florida surveying operations and oversees the budget and business performance of the individual groups within the Florida survey practice.  This position also includes oversight of key projects, resource management, and ability to step in when necessary to aid in project delivery. The Practice Director’s overall objective is to lead and grow a strong team and culture that leads to consistent delivery of projects on time and budget.

Primary Duties

• Leadership of Florida based surveying staff.
• Direct the acquisition of traditional and new survey equipment, technologies and practices to maintain a relevant, competitive, safe and efficient team that are equipped and trained on the most up to date survey technologies and procedures.
• Encourage and pursue a diverse portfolio of project types ranging from Land Development, Infrastructure, Transportation, Commercial, Residential and others.
• Oversee and support Group Leaders including review of financial performance, team building, etc.  Provide the tools necessary for them to grow their groups and increase financial performance.
• Maintain a positive culture!
• Attract new clients and maintain relationships with existing ones.

Requirements

• Professional registration in the state of Florida (PSM / PLS).
• Prior survey experience preferred in the areas of civil infrastructure, transportation, utilities, water/wastewater, ALTA/ACSM, construction layout & as-built, platting, or some combination thereof.
• Demonstrated ability to manage, lead, and motivate a team and find/build/maintain client relationships.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Competent technical skills.
• Budgeting and general accounting skills including proposal development and project management accounting.
• Positive attitude and ability to manage work/life balance for both themselves and their team.

Why Ardurra?

While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun.  We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home. 

Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

Ardurra does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agency Agreement, Ardurra will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. If a resume or candidate is submitted to any hiring manager without a previously signed agreement, Ardurra reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. These candidates will be considered property of Ardurra. We’re not currently looking to add any more agencies to our list of approved vendors, so please do not contact any of our managers or recruitment team with sales calls or details of your candidates.