Architecture / Design
Engineering
Full-Time
Job Description
Engineer Your Future With Us
VoltAir is an award-winning consulting engineering firm with a passion (some call it an obsession) for quality engineering. Our friendly and relaxed culture allows you to dig into incredible projects alongside talented colleagues while making career-building impacts in your local and national communities. We attract and reward skilled individuals who share a passion for engineering design or design-build electrical contracting. Our modern, spacious headquarters are in sunny Tampa Bay, with seven additional offices around the country.
Position Overview
VoltAir’s rapid growth has led to a need for an experienced operational leader with knowledge of the AEC (Architecture Engineering and Construction) industry to deliver strong operational capabilities and thoughtful infrastructure for our company’s expansion plans. Reporting into the President & CEO, the ideal candidate demonstrates exceptional strength with multisite leadership, cultivating a collaborative team environment and driving operational maturity while balancing the unique needs of multimillion-dollar infrastructure and construction projects.
Responsibilities
Workplace & Workforce Management
- Oversee staff of 60+ across several offices and multiple disciplines, including engineering and shared services
- Oversee, monitor, and report on technical- and project-related operations firm-wide
- Support President & CEO as principal-in-charge for VoltAir offices, particularly Tampa headquarters
- Develop and implement operational frameworks and processes, ensuring that all the necessary tools, talent and processes are in place for the business to operate
- Establishes company-wide expectations of project management performance, including client satisfaction levels and target metrics
- Build tools to track performance, promote accountability, and provide transparent, real-time insights for decision-making
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners — including Finance, HR, senior staff and external consultant(s) — to establish and maintain operational excellence
- Oversee IT operations to ensure technology systems and tools supporting effective project management and tracking
- Identifies, monitors and communicates important company metrics (e.g., profit, utilization) for monthly, quarterly and annual results
- Responsible for prioritizing staff, resources and assignments when there are competing needs
- Develop and mentor a high-performing team to deliver on client and strategic goals
- Assists in interviewing and evaluating candidates for key positions, and recommends ongoing training for staff development
- Collaborate with HR and office leadership on employee relations, performance reviews, staff development, and compensation and benefits practices
- Review, monitor and approve project work plans including milestones, workflow, staffing and project budgets
- Review, monitor and forecast office staffing to meet project and office strategic goals and plans
- Lead project management reviews to improve project schedules, scope definition and budget targets
- Support overall company-wide initiatives in sustainability, research, social responsibility, knowledge-development and diversity
Business Growth
- Review RFPs and work with marketing team to develop proposal responses to drive new business development
- Optimize workflows and processes with technology-led automation
- Continually evaluate office-location strategy to support new business growth
- Monitor contract administration process and procedures
- Improve customer service operations, response time and quality, on-time delivery to achieve client satisfaction
- Work closely with legal and compliance partners to meet regulatory and legal requirements to operate in new markets
- Reviews and holds accountability for financial performance of entire project portfolio
Job Requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Business, Finance or relevant degree
- 10 years’ experience in operations leadership role
- Five years’ experience in AEC industry, preferably MEP (Mechanical, Engineering, Plumbing)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Working knowledge of CRM and ERP platforms
- Able to direct and execute tactical projects while maintaining a focus on strategic goals
- Knowledge of data analysis and performance metrics
- Enhanced knowledge of project design and delivery
- Collaborative leader with excellent interpersonal and communications skills
- Resourceful problem-solver, with demonstrated experience figuring out complex, ambiguous problems and building scalable frameworks/processes
- Excellent organizational and multitasking skills with the ability to balance and prioritize multiple projects and initiatives in a high-growth environment
- Excellent management and decision-making skills
- Experience in operations risk management and regulatory compliance, with responsibility for mitigating risk and meeting regulatory requirements
- Travel up to 20%
Physical Requirements
Must have the ability to perform the necessary job-related functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Travel up to 20% for site investigations and assessments, or client meetings
- Remain in a stationary position, often standing or sitting, for prolonged periods
- Work extended hours, evenings and weekends when necessary to meet business deadlines
- Regular use of office equipment such as a computer/laptop and computer screens
- Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse and other computer components
- Ability to see differences between colors, shades and brightness
- Depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships)
- May occasionally be exposed to the following work conditions: work near/with moving mechanical parts; work near/with electrical currents; work in high places or underground; be exposed to fumes/airborne particles or caustic chemicals; withstand outdoor weather conditions; withstand moderate to very loud noises
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Flexible hybrid work options
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous paid holiday schedule
- Parental leave
- 401k plan with company match
- Paid company events and extracurricular activities
- Employee perks and discounts
- Education assistance & professional development
- Opportunity to work on impactful, headline-making projects that positively impact local and national communities
Who We Are
VoltAir, Inc, founded in 2006, is an engineering firm that provides Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Protection, and Information Technology design and commissioning services. Our projects span aviation, office, restaurant, retail, higher education, parking, K-12, multi-family, healthcare, labs, recreational facilities and central energy plants. We are a certified minority-owned corporation and employ nearly 50 professionals. We are headquartered in Tampa, Florida, with additional locations in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Houston, Dallas/Ft. Worth and Austin, Texas; Nashville, Tennessee; and Atlanta, Georgia.
Equal Employment Opportunity
VoltAir does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment policies on the basis of any protected characteristics. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race or color, religion, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, physical or mental disability status, pregnancy status, genetics, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic as protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. In addition, we make reasonable accommodation to the needs of disabled applicants and employees, so long as this does not create an undue hardship on the business or threaten the health or safety of others at work.