Area Lead – Engineering & Construction Management

Title: Area Lead – Engineering & Construction Management

Location: Virginia Beach, VA

Position Summary:

Alpha Corporation is seeking a hands-on, relationship-driven leader to build and grow our Virginia Beach office. This high-visibility opportunity is ideal for a group leader ready to advance into a broader operations and client-service role, shaping a local team, strengthening Alpha’s market presence, and supporting meaningful infrastructure work across Southeast Virginia, Richmond, and surrounding markets.

In this role, you will lead daily office operations, support strategic growth, guide project delivery, and position Alpha for continued success with state, local, federal, and private-sector clients. The Virginia Beach office supports construction management, civil and structural design, and program management, giving the right candidate a strong platform to lead teams, serve clients, expand market share, and pursue new opportunities.

This role is well suited for someone who enjoys building relationships, developing teams, solving practical delivery challenges, and growing a local market presence. The ideal candidate is comfortable managing day-to-day office leadership while stepping into a client-facing, technical seller-doer role.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Virginia Beach office as the primary local point of contact for staff, clients, partners, and project teams.
• Work with the Southeast Regional Senior Vice President to support growth strategy, annual business planning, client development, and key pursuits.
• Build relationships with clients, teaming partners, agencies, contractors, and community stakeholders across Hampton Roads, Richmond, South Carolina, and other Southeast Region markets.
• Identify and pursue new opportunities through client engagement, pipeline management, capture planning, proposal leadership, shortlist interviews, and pursuit coordination.
• Represent Alpha in the local market through client meetings, industry organizations, networking events, and community engagement.
• Oversee a multidisciplinary office team that may include field staff, construction managers, inspectors, schedulers, estimators, project managers, engineers, and designers.
• Provide hands-on support to project and field teams by helping resolve staffing, coordination, documentation, technical, and client-service issues.
• Support successful project delivery by monitoring scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, client satisfaction, and compliance with contract and company requirements.
• Promote clear communication among office staff, field teams, clients, subcontractors, vendors, and senior leadership.
• Track milestones, staffing needs, deliverables, deadlines, and critical action items to keep work moving efficiently.
• Use utilization, backlog, staffing capacity, and project performance data to support forecasting, budgeting, workload planning, and operational decisions.
• Recruit, onboard, mentor, and retain local engineering, construction management, project management, and field staff.
• Foster a responsive, accountable, safety-focused, and client-centered office culture.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Science, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related field is required.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license in Virginia, CCM certification, or ability to obtain relevant licensure or certification within one year preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in civil engineering, construction management, program management, infrastructure delivery, or related consulting services.
• Experience leading projects, field operations, staff, office activities, or client-facing delivery teams.
• A track record of building client relationships, supporting business development, leading proposals, participating in shortlist interviews, and helping win work.
• Established or growing professional network in Hampton Roads and/or the Commonwealth of Virginia preferred, especially with transportation, municipal, federal, construction management, contractor, or private-sector clients.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary infrastructure teams through scope, schedule, budget, quality, staffing, and client-service challenges.
• Experience working in a field-oriented office with construction managers, inspectors, schedulers, project managers, engineers, and field crews.
• Experience with VDOT construction management policies and procedures preferred.
• Preferred technical background includes one or more of the following: construction management, program management, site civil engineering, transportation design, aviation infrastructure, port and marine facilities, stormwater management, land development, utility design, or water/wastewater infrastructure.
• Strong communication, organization, leadership, mentoring, problem-solving, and client-service skills.
• A visible, responsive, and hands-on leadership style with a strong commitment to clients, staff, project teams, and regional growth.

Why Join Us:

Alpha offers the opportunity to take ownership of a local office while staying connected to experienced regional leadership, established client relationships, and a broader team of technical and operational resources.

• Step into a visible leadership role with the opportunity to shape and grow Alpha’s Virginia Beach office.
• Work closely with senior regional leadership while serving as the trusted local leader for staff, clients, and project teams.
• Build lasting relationships and expand Alpha’s presence in one of Virginia’s most active infrastructure markets.
• Enjoy a practical seller-doer role that blends client engagement, business development, project delivery, and office leadership.
• Join a collaborative, team-oriented company that values responsiveness, accountability, technical quality, safety, practical problem-solving, and strong client service.
• Contribute to meaningful transportation, municipal, federal, aviation, port, utility, construction management, and infrastructure projects across Hampton Roads and the Commonwealth of Virginia.
• Salary Range: $160,000 - $225,000

EEO Statement

Alpha Corporation is an equal-opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or military status, or any other protected class. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotions, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay, or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.