Business Unit Senior Operations Director

Company: AtkinsR--alis
Location: Dallas
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

Why join us?It's an exciting time at AtkinsR--alis! We are rapidly growing in the US. Our company's purpose is to build a better world for our planet and its people. We recognize the importance of making sure that our clients and employees feel this purpose every day. AtkinsR--alis is proud of our company culture that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion. Our company ethos includes collaboration through the connection of people, data, and technology. We are a global firm, who leverages having employees located throughout the world, creating valuable partnerships and doing our part to make this planet and its people thrive. We need energetic, enthusiastic and eager professionals like you to join our team. There has never been a better time to be a part of AtkinsR--alis!We are seeking a Business Unit Senior Operations Director to join the team.AtkinsR--alis is one of the world's most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies. AtkinsR--alis has been providing infrastructure planning, engineering, construction, environmental consulting, urban planning, architecture, and program management services to public and private clients across the United States for more than 50 years. AtkinsR--alis has the depth and breadth of expertise to respond to the most technically challenging and time-critical infrastructure projects and the urgent transition to a low-carbon economy.How will you contribute to the team?

• Under general guidance from the Business Unit (BU) Director, manages, directs and controls the operations of a business unit generally in excess of $450+ million.
• Provides leadership, direction and guidance to sector and division managers. This includes responsibility for ensuring project performance and quality control, as well as for achieving profit and revenue objectives.
• The focus is on implementing business strategies to achieve financial, operational, service delivery, commercial, quality, safety, client satisfaction, optimal project resourcing, and employee engagement and performance.
• Commercial: Develop and promote a strong commercial and business acumen culture. Ensures compliance with various commercial requirements including stage gate process, contracts and subcontracts, claim management, corporate governance, and authority matrix. Ensures proper reviews and approvals for pursuit pricing strategy and project cost estimates. Works closely with both the AtkinsR--alis U.S. (ARUS) legal counsel and the contracts and procurement director to ensure commercial risk is evaluated, eliminated where possible, or mitigated. To identify potential claims and provide periodic updates to ARUS legal and operational leadership. Ensures compliance with the authorization matrix for various commercial approvals and reviews.
• Financial: Ensures adherence to budget and oversees forecasting activities. Reviews and approves operating budgets. Reviews and approves capital expenditures as specified in the authorization matrix. Reviews and approves final write-offs and past-due accounts receivables and legal settlements as specified in the authorization matrix.
• Marketing and Client Maintenance: Supports the implementation of strategies for the effective and economical penetration of potential/existent geographical markets and business lines for the firm. Maintains contacts with primary current and prospective clients, including initial contacts presentations, negotiating agreements, keeping clients appraised of work progress, and ensuring client's satisfaction; identifies and works toward the resolution of client relation problems
  • Project Delivery: Working through the BU sector and division managers ensure that projects are delivered on time, within the contracted budget, and to professional and technical standards. Ensures projects follow the prescribed delivery processes including but not limited to project execution plans, schedules, risk management, and change management.
  • Project Resourcing: Working through the BU sector and division managers, the TPO leadership and regional resource regional managers ensures projects are properly staffed. Works with the recruiting team to identify and prioritize requisitions for the BU and in collaboration with the TPO. Engages with resource restrained areas to provide additional direction and leadership. Coordinates with the various TPO practices to ensure annual budget aligns with TPO staffing mix and alerts the TPO of significant changes in staffing requirements.
  • Quality: Ensures ARUS's quality and technical assurance program is followed on all projects. Works closely with the quality and technical assurance director. Monitors and enforces compliance with established quality control standards, ensuring that appropriate quality assurance activities are being performed throughout the BU.
  • Staff Administration: Selects and/or participates in the selection of candidates for senior level jobs within the BU. Reviews and approves personnel actions recommended by senior operating managers inside the BU and the TPO. Conducts semi-annual performance reviews and annual career planning sessions for direct reports. Promotes effective performance management and career development practices throughout the BU to ensure employees reach the highest possible performance level, job satisfaction, and commitment. Ensures compliance with policies and procedures and business management system (BMS) throughout the BU and all projects.
  • Collaboration: Works closely with the other respective BU operations directors to ensure consistency and optimal business performance. Serve as part of a four-member BU operations director team. Works closely with BU financial manager. Serves as BU point of contact for business and operational support groups including the PME director, the quality and technical assurance director, the procurement and contracts director, and the SHE manager.What will you contribute?
    • Bachelor's degree in field of practice. Post graduate degree preferred. Management coursework and/or MBA preferred.
    • 20+ years of experience since Bachelor degree, with at least five of these years in a senior operating management position.
    • Excellent technical and people skills. Proven ability to manage large scope operations and provide leadership to multiple levels of management.
    • Highly skilled at promoting the firm and negotiating advantageous contracts.
    • Must have business vision, excellent communication skills, and be able to represent the firm effectively to clients, key public officials, and the community in general.
      • Professional registration in field of practice is preferred, i.e., PMP, P.E., P.G., PLS, R.A., or RLA.What we offer at AtkinsR--alis:AtkinsR--alis realizes that health, mental and financial wellbeing, are all equally needed to achieve balance in life. We are pleased to offer a robust rewards package that helps our employees have peace of mind in and outside of work. Our benefit offerings address all of the areas that are part of living a healthy life.We recognize that what is important to people continues to change. Some of our other benefits to ensure our employees feel supported include continuing to offer health and dental coverage for domestic partners and a full list below. Our culture is one of providing support and training for our employees to thrive. We offer learning and development programs, training, career pathing opportunities, and a tuition reimbursement plan. At AtkinsR--alis, you will enjoy a robust rewards package which includes:
        • Competitive salary
        • Flexible work schedules
        • Group Insurance
        • Two Floating Holidays
        • Paid Parental Leave (including maternity and paternity)
        • Pet Insurance
        • Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
        • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
        • Learning and development programs, training, career opportunities and a highly regarded tuition reimbursement program
        • An inclusive culture of Employee Resources Groups centered around women, African Americans, Hispanics, LGBTQ+, Neurodiversity and Emerging Professionals.
        • A Foundation that is employee-funded with a 2-to-1 match from the company providing STEAM education for minorities from K-12 to college.If this sounds like you and you would like to expand your career with us, apply today!AtkinsR--alis is an equal opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. EOE/Minorities/Females/Veteran/Disability.Please review AtkinsR--alis Equal Opportunity Statement here:AtkinsR--alis cares about your privacy and are committed to protecting your privacy. Please consult our on our Careers site to know more about how we collect, use and transfer your Personal Data.By submitting your personal information to AtkinsR--alis, you confirm that you have read and accept our Privacy Notice.Upon acceptance of an offer, all candidates must go through a drug screen test and background check. AtkinsR--alis is a federal contractor which mandates a satisfactory background screening report and drug test that supersedes state laws.Note to staffing and direct hire agencies:In the event a recruiter or agency who is not on our preferred supplier list submits a resume/candidate to anyone in the company, AtkinsR--alis family of companies, we explicitly reserve the right to recruit and hire the candidate(s) at our discretion and without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.
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