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Regional Team Leader, Specifications

Ready to take the next step in your career? Passionate about helping others grow professionally? As a Regional Team Leader, you'll guide and support a team, offering mentorship, training, and leadership to help them reach their full potential. The Infrastructure Services Group (ISG) is seeking a Regional Team Leader and Senior Specification Writer to lead our Specifications Group. We're looking for candidates with experience as a Senior Manager and Senior Specification Writer. At CDM Smith, we are invested in your success. We offer flexible work options that allow our employees to meet their needs outside of work. This position can be based out of any CDM Smith U.S. location.

As a Regional Team Leader, you will play a key role in advancing CDM Smith's mission by:

• Supporting your employees' career journey.
• Communicating, integrating, connecting, and engaging with your team members.
• Actively participating in your team members' career paths, including identifying and completing appropriate training, achieving professional registration/certification, and assigning challenging projects.
• Selecting a suitable mentor for your employees as part of the Career Compass Program.
• Celebrating team members at important milestones (i.e., work anniversaries, promotions, professional registration, etc.).
• Conducting timely and authentic annual performance appraisals, coordinating with technical mentors, project managers, TDMs, and others.
• Leveraging and applying intellectual property, especially as it relates to Community of Practice participation.
• Recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new employees (as approved with the TDM) to support project workload and overall firm growth.
• Delivering a legendary client experience with attention to quality.
• Instilling a sense of personal ownership for work product quality by each member of your team.
• Coordinating workload within your Technical Services group and utilization goals for the individuals on your team.
• Coordinating with your TDM for appropriate technical staff assignments.
• Delivering appropriate sales support, as coordinated with the TDM.
• Approving time sheets and expense reports in a timely manner.
• Ensuring your team members complete all required training (Compliance, Health & Safety, Ethics, etc.) on time.
• Ensuring your team members are compliant with QA/QC and Health & Safety procedures for project delivery.

Specification Program Management Tasks:

• Manages Specifications Writing Team that focuses on Quality Assurance for construction specifications on Design Projects for all multiple business units including our technical services (TSU), construction (CCI) and federal (FSU). Builds customer centered team focus within QA requirements.
• Monitors, updates and maintains the master specifications library in partnership with other specification writers, and discipline leaders.
• Recommends updates to specifications related policies and procedures.
• Monitors Viva Engage and other firmwide communication portals for spec issues and questions.
• Creates, updates, and maintains specification section development tracking.
• Develop and publicize systems for coordination with subconsultants.

Strategic Tasks:

• Provides strategic planning on issues facing the preparation of the firm's construction specifications. This can include:
• Evaluation of Digital platforms for delivering specs and integration with other firm software including Revit and ProjectWise.
• Coordination and training of NAU administrative staff to prepare specs.
• Connecting and participating with CSI events and professional developments.
• Maintaining and advancing best practices for spec preparation.
• Preparing processes for proposal budgets and scopes.
• Maintaining relationship with OGC on the legal aspects of specs including various contract types.
• Working with Project Managers to schedule spec tasks on projects.
• Working with Project Managers to understand impact of funding regulations such as AIS, BABAA, etc., on project manuals.

Job Title: Regional Team Leader, Specifications

Group: ISO

Employment Type: Regular

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree.
• 10 years of related experience.
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Domestic and/or international travel may be required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient in CSI format requirements for technical specifications, EJCDC front end documents and working with multi-discipline teams to develop required specifications.
• Experience writing and editing engineering technical specifications for public, government and private sector projects.
• Professional Engineer (PE), Registered Architect (RA) or related professional state registration/license.
• Certified Construction Specifier (CCS)
• 15 years of related experience including team management.
• Well-rounded experience with design, project management and construction administration.
• Experience writing and editing vertical and horizontal construction specifications. Familiarity with DOT, SpecsIntact and international specifications preferred.
• Current membership in CSI or DBIA or other construction/design industry certification requiring education, experience, testing and CE credit requirements.

EEO Statement:

We attract the best people in the industry, supporting their efforts to learn and grow. We strive to create a challenging and progressive work environment. We provide career opportunities that span a variety of disciplines and geographic locations, with projects that our employees plan, design, build and operate as diverse as the needs of our clients. CDM Smith is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, pregnancy related conditions, childbirth and related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression), national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Join Us! CDM Smith where amazing career journeys unfold. Imagine a place committed to offering an unmatched employee experience. Where you work on projects that are meaningful to you. Where you play an active part in shaping your career journey. Where your co-workers are invested in you and your success. Where you are encouraged and supported to do your very best and given the tools and resources to do so. Where it's a priority that the company takes good care of you and your family. Our employees are the heart of our company. As an employer of choice, our goal is to provide a challenging, progressive and inclusive work environment which fosters personal leadership, career growth and development for every employee. We value passionate individuals who challenge the norm, deliver world-class solutions and bring diverse perspectives. Join our team, and together we will make a difference and change the world.

Job Site Location: United States - Nationwide

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

Skills and Abilities:

- Foster a culture of collaboration, quality, and lead by example, embodying CDM Smith's Vision and Core Values.

- Consistently demonstrate CDM Smith's Leadership Competencies, including promoting a high-performance culture, trust and accountability, building alliances, and driving continuous improvement.

- Effectively drive staff engagement, retention, hiring, and development within the team.

- Exhibit strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Provide exemplary service to both internal and external clients.

- Possess a deep understanding of the business, including key metrics such as utilization, project profitability, overhead, and staffing.

- Advanced knowledge of necessary formatting requirements for technical specifications.

- Advanced knowledge in MasterSpec, SpecsIntact and Microsoft Word software processing.

- Excellent skills with Excel and Teams, pdf formatting, and cloud-based document organizing.

- Strong ability to work within client-centered, multi-discipline engineering design teams to both coordinate and lead project specifications development.

- Expert knowledge of project bidding and contract procedures.

- Strong problem-solving skills.

- Exceptional written and oral communication skills.

- Excellent interpersonal skills.

- Expert knowledge of engineering design project specifications production and delivery methods, including alternate project delivery methods and approaches.

Background Check and Drug Testing Information:

CDM Smith Inc. and its divisions and subsidiaries (hereafter collectively referred to as "CDM Smith") reserves the right to require background checks including criminal, employment, education, licensure, etc. as well as credit and motor vehicle when applicable for certain positions.