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.
- Monitor 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.