Remediation Practice Leader

Kimley-Horn of DC is seeking a senior Practice Leader to help drive long-term growth, expand client relationships, and build high-performing teams across infrastructure, civil, and environmental services. Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence clients and partners and sustain effective working relationships with regulators, consultants, contractors, and internal teams.

Overview:

Kimley-Horn of DC has an opportunity for a motivated, growth-minded Environmental Remediation Practice Leader to expand and lead our environmental practice across the firm based in Washington, DC!

 

Kimley-Horn of DC is seeking a senior Practice Leader to help drive long-term growth, expand client relationships, and build high-performing teams across infrastructure, civil, and environmental services. This role offers a unique opportunity for a proven, entrepreneurial leader to shape market strategy, strengthen project delivery, and grow a broader practice platform.

Responsibilities:

Market Growth & Client Leadership:

• Serve as a senior market leader for environmental services across private and public clients.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, agencies, municipalities, regulators, and other key stakeholders.
• Lead pursuit strategy, client development, and business development efforts for new and existing environmental clients.
• Strengthen Kimley-Horn’s market presence through industry involvement, professional associations, and regional conferences.
• Shape long-term growth strategies for the environmental practice in alignment with Kimley-Horn’s strategic plan.

Project Oversight & Technical Leadership:

• Serve as Principal-in-Charge or Project Director for complex environmental projects, providing senior oversight from planning through delivery.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and provide technical guidance to ensure quality, consistency, and strong client outcomes.
• Perform complex technical analyses and apply risk-based decision-making to support project planning and execution.
• Oversee field activities, data collection, laboratory analyses, findings interpretation, and reporting to ensure accuracy, budget alignment, and schedule adherence.
• Organize, write, and edit reports, proposals, and other technical documents.
• Coordinate across offices, disciplines, and technical teams to advance environmental-related work.
• Navigate advanced technical decisions, regulatory engagement, and project risk while working with internal teams, regulators, municipalities, consultants, property owners, and community representatives.
• Promote innovation, best practices, and continuous improvement across project execution.

Team Leadership & Talent Development:

• Lead, mentor, recruit, and develop high-performing environmental teams.
• Provide direct oversight, coaching, training, and accountability for junior staff assigned to environmental projects.
• Foster a collaborative, people-first culture aligned with Kimley-Horn’s values of trust, accountability, and professional development.
• Partner with local and regional leaders to align staffing, skills, and workload across the practice.

Business & Financial Management:

• Contribute to annual business planning, backlog forecasting, revenue growth, workload management, staffing deployment, and profitability.
• Develop scopes, staffing plans, schedules, and budgets for large, complex projects.
• Manage multiple projects and tasks within established budgets and deadlines, including progress reporting, change orders, billings, and payment collections.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Hydrogeology, Geology, Environmental Science, or related field required.
• Professional Engineer (PE) or Professional Geologist (PG) license preferred; state-specific licensure preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in environmental remediation, planning, design, or program leadership.
• Proven experience managing complex, multi-million-dollar projects.
• Experience guiding due diligence, investigations, conceptual site model development, remedial design, and remedy implementation.
• Strong working knowledge of State and Federal regulatory frameworks, including CERCLA, RCRA, CWA, CAA, and UST regulations.
• Established relationships within the environmental consulting market preferred.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence clients and partners and sustain effective working relationships with regulators, consultants, contractors, and internal teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for building practices, developing people, and creating long-term client partnerships.

Salary Range: $145-155K