Senior Technical Director

Kennedy Jenks is seeking a Senior Technical Director to serve as a recognized technical authority and strategic leader across our firm. This is a high-impact role for a seasoned expert who thrives on solving complex challenges, shaping technical direction, and influencing the future of the industry.In this role, you will provide firm-wide leadership across major projects and initiatives, guiding technical excellence, innovation, and long-term practice development. You'll partner with executive leadership, project teams, and key clients to deliver forward-thinking solutions that drive quality, performance, and growth.What You'll DoAs a Senior Technical Director, you'll serve as a firmwide technical authority and trusted advisor, leading technical strategy, quality, innovation, client partnership, business growth, and development of future technical leaders.

Lead technical strategy: Serve as a firmwide technical authority in your area of expertise, leading strategy and setting standards across complex, high-risk projects.Drive quality: Provide expert oversight and peer review to ensure quality, safety, and regulatory compliance.Solve Complexity: Lead the resolution of complex technical challenges, bringing clarity to ambiguity and risk.Advance innovation: Drive innovation and technical advancement, including methodologies, tools, and emerging technologies.Shape pursuits: Shape and support major pursuits, advising on technical approach, risk, and delivery strategy.Advise with credibility: Act as a trusted advisor to clients, project managers, and firm leadership.Strengthen client relationships: Build and maintain strong client relationships, influencing strategy through credible, data-driven insights.Develop leaders: Mentor and develop Technical Directors and senior engineers, strengthening the firm's technical bench.Represent the firm: Represent Kennedy Jenks in industry forums, professional organizations, and client engagements, enhancing our reputation and visibility.

What Makes This Role Different

Firmwide technical direction: You define and elevate technical standards and direction across the firm, shaping how Kennedy Jenks approaches its most important technical decisions.Complex challenges and risk: You deliver solutions to the most complex technical challenges, protecting quality and reducing risk across high-impact work.Innovation and long-term strategy: You advance innovation and long-term technical strategy, preparing the firm for future complexity and opportunity.Trusted client partnership: You strengthen client partnerships as a trusted advisor, connecting technical judgment to client trust, business performance, and long-term market reputation.Business growth through technical leadership: You support business growth through technical leadership on key pursuits, helping teams position, scope, and deliver meaningful client solutions.Next-generation technical leaders: You develop the next generation of technical leaders, strengthening technical capability across teams and building the firm's future bench.

What You Bring

Technical leadership perspective: The ability to guide technical direction, evaluate risk, and provide practical recommendations on complex work.Strategic business judgment: Strong financial and business acumen with the ability to connect technical decisions to project outcomes and firm performance.Influential communication: Skill in translating complex concepts for executives, clients, project teams, and technical audiences.Collaborative leadership: Proven ability to influence, mentor, and lead through expertise and collaboration.Client-centered credibility: The ability to build strong relationships and influence strategy through clear, data-driven insight.Innovation mindset: Curiosity and discipline to advance methods, tools, and approaches that improve quality and delivery.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering required; master's degree preferred.Experience: 15+ years of progressive technical experience in an engineering discipline.Project background: Demonstrated record leading complex, high-risk projects or initiatives.Licenses: Professional Engineer (PE) license required.

Kennedy Jenks supports a healthy work-life balance and utilizes a hybrid model of home and office work, with a minimum of two days per week in the office. This approach empowers our people to thrive, collaborate, and do their best work.Salary range for this position is anticipated to be $200,000 to $250,000, and may vary based upon education, experience, qualifications, licensure/certifications, and geographic location.Benefits summary: Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; a health savings account; a 401(k); bonus programs; tuition reimbursement; employee ownership opportunity; professional registration support; business travel assistance; competitive paid time off and holidays; an employee assistance program; and additional programs that support your wellbeing and professional growth.#LI-Hybrid