Senior Civil Engineer - Office Leader

Senior Civil Engineer / Orlando Office Leader

Company: SCS Engineers
Location: Orlando / Maitland, Florida
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: 8–30 Years
Compensation: $135,000–$185,000 base salary, plus annual bonus
Work Arrangement: Flexible schedule with office-based leadership responsibilities
Relocation: Relocation assistance available
Search Partner: Luxus Group | AEC Talent Partners — Retained Recruiting Firm

Position Overview

SCS Engineers is seeking a licensed Senior Civil Engineer / Orlando Office Leader to lead, develop, and expand its growing Orlando-area operation.

This is a rare opportunity for an accomplished civil or environmental engineer who wants to take the next meaningful step into office leadership—or for an experienced office, department, or practice leader who wants greater autonomy, visibility, and long-term growth potential within a nationally recognized, 100% employee-owned organization.

The Orlando office currently consists of three employees, giving the selected leader an immediate opportunity to shape the office’s future. This person will establish the local culture, mentor and develop employees, strengthen project delivery, expand client relationships, recruit additional talent, and build the office into a larger multidisciplinary operation serving Central Florida.

This is not a purely administrative position. Approximately 50% of the role will remain focused on technical production and project delivery, with the remaining 50% dedicated to leadership, client development, staff management, operational oversight, and strategic growth.

The ideal candidate is a technically credible, client-oriented Professional Engineer who enjoys both engineering and leadership. Candidates do not need to have previously held the title of Office Leader. SCS is open to an established Senior Project Manager, Project Director, Department Manager, Practice Leader, or Senior Civil Engineer who is ready to move into a broader leadership role.

Why This Opportunity Is Different

This position offers the chance to lead a small office with the backing, resources, technical specialists, and project history of a well-established national firm.

The selected candidate will have the opportunity to:

• Lead and expand an existing three-person Orlando office.
• Influence local hiring, market strategy, client development, and office culture.
• Continue performing meaningful technical work instead of moving completely away from engineering.
• Build a team around their technical strengths, client relationships, and vision.
• Access companywide environmental, civil, geotechnical, solid waste, energy, and regulatory specialists.
• Work with public- and private-sector clients throughout Central and South Florida.
• Participate in the financial success of a 100% employee-owned company.
• Pursue a defined pathway toward broader regional and executive leadership.
• Relocate to Central Florida with company-supported relocation assistance.

About SCS Engineers

SCS Engineers is a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting and construction firm that has delivered sustainable environmental solutions for more than 56 years. The firm studies complex environmental and infrastructure challenges, designs practical solutions, remediates sites, builds and operates environmental and energy systems, and monitors environmental-control infrastructure. Its core capabilities include solid and hazardous waste management, landfill gas, site remediation, renewable energy, and regulatory compliance involving air, water, and soil. Learn more about SCS Engineers.

SCS operates as a national organization while maintaining locally led offices staffed by professionals who understand regional conditions, clients, and regulatory requirements. Local offices can draw upon specialists and technical resources throughout the company, combining national capabilities with local relationships and market knowledge. Explore SCS locations.

The company’s work contributes to safer, healthier, and more resilient communities—from stormwater infrastructure and land-development projects to solid waste systems, landfill-gas management, renewable energy, contaminated-property redevelopment, and regulatory compliance.

As an employee-owned organization, SCS emphasizes personal ownership, long-term decision-making, collaboration, technical quality, and shared success. Its stated workplace principles include trust, care, and growth, supported by a culture that values teamwork, tenacity, safety, mentorship, and professional advancement.

Orlando and Central Florida Practice

The Orlando-area office supports public- and private-sector clients across Central and South Florida. Its current and anticipated workload includes civil engineering, stormwater, development, solid waste, environmental, and infrastructure assignments.

SCS’s published Orlando opportunities identify a primary emphasis on stormwater and development projects, with additional work involving solid waste management, landfill gas, landfills, and landfill infrastructure. The work can span engineering design, permitting, construction support, operations support, compliance, and client consultation. Review SCS’s Orlando civil engineering practice.

The Orlando operation also benefits from SCS’s established Florida presence, with offices across the state, including Jacksonville, Tampa, Sarasota, West Palm Beach, Miami, and South Florida.

Representative Services and Project Types

Depending on the selected leader’s experience and the evolving needs of the Orlando office, the project portfolio may include:

Civil and Site Engineering

• Site planning and civil infrastructure design
• Paving, grading, and drainage design
• Stormwater-management systems
• Utility coordination and infrastructure
• Erosion and sediment-control planning
• Site-development and redevelopment projects
• Facility and operational site improvements
• Construction documents, specifications, and cost estimates
• Construction administration and engineering support

Stormwater and Water Resources

• Stormwater modeling, analysis, and design
• Drainage studies and master planning
• Stormwater conveyance and treatment systems
• Retention and detention facilities
• Water-quality and regulatory-compliance programs
• NPDES and stormwater permitting
• Flood-resilience and infrastructure-improvement projects
• Inspection, monitoring, reporting, and corrective-action programs

Solid Waste and Environmental Infrastructure

• Municipal and private landfill engineering
• Landfill expansions and cell development
• Landfill closure and post-closure projects
• Transfer stations and materials recovery facilities
• Landfill-gas collection and control systems
• Leachate collection, storage, and treatment infrastructure
• Groundwater and stormwater-monitoring systems
• Solid waste planning and feasibility studies
• Facility compliance and operational improvements
• Construction oversight and certification

SCS’s Orlando team has historically supported major public-sector solid waste programs. For example, the firm has provided Orange County with planning, feasibility studies, permitting, operational support, regulatory assistance, stormwater services, transfer-station and materials-recovery expertise, landfill-gas work, and renewable-energy support. Read about SCS’s Orange County work.

Environmental and Regulatory Services

• Environmental permitting and compliance
• Regulatory strategy and agency coordination
• Site assessment and remediation
• Contaminated-site redevelopment
• Groundwater, stormwater, landfill-gas, and leachate reporting
• Environmental due diligence
• Air, water, and soil compliance
• Technical studies and regulatory submittals
• Environmental-control systems
• Sustainability and resilience initiatives

Renewable Energy and Resource Recovery

• Landfill-gas-to-energy systems
• Renewable natural gas and biogas facilities
• Organics management and composting
• Methane-emissions reduction
• Resource recovery and recycling programs
• Alternative-energy infrastructure
• Carbon-management and sequestration-related services

Primary Responsibilities

Orlando Office Leadership

• Provide day-to-day leadership for the Orlando office and its current three-person team.
• Establish a clear vision and sustainable growth plan for the local operation.
• Create an engaged, accountable, collaborative, and safety-focused office culture.
• Serve as the primary local representative of SCS Engineers in the Central Florida market.
• Coordinate the office’s workload, staffing priorities, project assignments, and resource needs.
• Maintain visibility into project schedules, budgets, quality, profitability, and client satisfaction.
• Work with regional and national leadership to establish annual office goals and performance priorities.
• Identify operational challenges and implement practical solutions.
• Promote collaboration between the Orlando office and other SCS offices and technical practices.
• Help determine which services, markets, and client segments offer the strongest growth opportunities.
• Support the development of annual revenue, backlog, hiring, and profitability objectives.
• Represent the office at company leadership meetings, industry events, and professional organizations.

Technical Production and Project Delivery — Approximately 50%

• Spend approximately 50% of the position actively engaged in technical production, project management, design leadership, and quality control.
• Prepare or oversee engineering calculations, drawings, technical reports, specifications, cost estimates, and permit applications.
• Lead civil designs involving paving, grading, drainage, stormwater, utilities, and related site infrastructure.
• Serve as Project Manager, Technical Lead, and, where appropriate, Engineer of Record.
• Review technical deliverables for accuracy, constructability, regulatory compliance, and alignment with client expectations.
• Establish project scopes, schedules, staffing plans, budgets, and quality-control procedures.
• Coordinate civil, environmental, geotechnical, survey, CAD, and field resources.
• Direct and review work completed in AutoCAD and Civil 3D environments.
• Lead permitting and regulatory-agency coordination.
• Participate in field investigations, inspections, construction observations, data collection, and project meetings as needed.
• Resolve complex design, permitting, construction, and operational challenges.
• Certify engineering documents and regulatory submittals within the limits of professional licensure and project responsibility.
• Ensure projects follow SCS quality-management and health-and-safety procedures.
• Manage project financial performance, including labor utilization, scope control, invoicing, collections, and profitability.
• Maintain proactive communication with clients concerning schedule, budget, permitting, deliverables, and emerging risks.

Staff Leadership and Team Development

• Lead, coach, and mentor engineers, designers, technicians, scientists, and project professionals.
• Establish clear performance expectations and provide timely, constructive feedback.
• Support employees in developing technical, project-management, client-service, and leadership skills.
• Delegate work effectively while maintaining accountability for quality and deadlines.
• Conduct or contribute to performance reviews, career-development plans, and promotion recommendations.
• Identify staffing gaps and create a strategic hiring plan for the Orlando office.
• Recruit and retain high-performing professionals who align with SCS’s employee-ownership culture.
• Develop succession plans and future project and office leaders.
• Encourage professional licensure, certifications, continuing education, and participation in industry organizations.
• Balance workload across the local office and broader regional organization.
• Promote an environment in which employees can take ownership of their work and grow professionally.

Client Leadership and Business Development

• Maintain and expand relationships with existing public- and private-sector clients.
• Serve as a trusted advisor who understands each client’s technical, regulatory, operational, and business challenges.
• Identify opportunities to expand SCS services within existing client accounts.
• Develop relationships with municipalities, counties, developers, utilities, solid waste authorities, private operators, attorneys, contractors, and other strategic partners.
• Build a qualified pipeline of opportunities aligned with the Orlando office’s capabilities.
• Lead or support client-account plans, sales plans, and key-opportunity strategies.
• Monitor procurement opportunities and evaluate requests for proposals and qualifications.
• Participate in go/no-go decisions.
• Prepare and review proposals, scopes of work, fee estimates, schedules, and interview presentations.
• Lead client presentations, contract discussions, and project negotiations.
• Participate in conferences, professional associations, technical committees, and community organizations.
• Collaborate with SCS subject-matter experts to bring additional capabilities to Florida clients.
• Develop a balanced portfolio of repeat-client work and strategically selected new business.
• Protect client relationships through responsive communication, quality delivery, and consistent follow-through.

Financial and Operational Management

• Take ownership of the Orlando office’s operational and financial performance.
• Monitor backlog, revenue, profitability, utilization, project performance, and staffing capacity.
• Support annual budgeting and business-planning activities.
• Evaluate project risk before proposals and contract commitments are finalized.
• Establish appropriate staffing and project-delivery plans.
• Review project financial reports and intervene when projects deviate from scope, schedule, or budget.
• Promote accurate forecasting, timely billing, and responsible collections.
• Balance near-term production demands with the office’s long-term growth objectives.
• Work with company leadership to make sound decisions regarding hiring, investments, and market expansion.
• Uphold professional, contractual, regulatory, quality, and ethical standards.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Active Professional Engineer license.
• Florida P.E. license or the ability to obtain Florida licensure through reciprocity within an agreed timeframe.
• Approximately 8–30 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience delivering civil, stormwater, land-development, environmental, solid waste, geotechnical, or related infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing projects from proposal and scope development through design, permitting, construction support, and closeout.
• Ability and willingness to remain actively involved in technical production for approximately 50% of the role.
• Experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, and profitability.
• Strong knowledge of engineering design practices, permitting processes, and regulatory coordination.
• Ability to review and direct the preparation of engineering calculations, plans, reports, specifications, and permit applications.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and client-relationship skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coordinate technical employees.
• Sound professional judgment and the ability to make decisions with incomplete or evolving information.
• Ability to work effectively across offices, disciplines, and technical practices.
• Valid driver’s license and an acceptable driving record.
• Ability to travel periodically to client sites, project locations, and other SCS offices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Civil, Environmental, Geotechnical, or a related engineering discipline.
• Current Florida P.E. license.
• Experience in engineering consulting.
• Existing relationships within Central Florida’s municipal, county, development, environmental, utility, or solid waste markets.
• Experience leading an office, department, practice group, or multidisciplinary team.
• Previous responsibility for profit-and-loss performance, budgeting, or business planning.
• Experience recruiting and building technical teams.
• Demonstrated success developing repeat business and winning new work.
• Experience with public-sector procurement, RFPs, RFQs, and consultant-selection processes.
• Technical experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Stormwater and drainage
  • Site and land development
  • Civil infrastructure
  • Solid waste facilities
  • Landfills and landfill infrastructure
  • Landfill-gas systems
  • Transfer stations and materials recovery facilities
  • Environmental permitting and compliance
  • Site remediation
  • Construction administration
  • Renewable energy or resource recovery
• Experience serving as Engineer of Record or certifying engineer.
• Familiarity with AutoCAD, Civil 3D, stormwater-modeling applications, GIS, and common engineering project-management systems.
• Participation in organizations such as FES, ACEC Florida, ASCE, SWANA, FWEA, APWA, or related professional and industry associations.

The Ideal Candidate

The strongest candidate may currently be a:

• Senior Civil Engineer
• Senior Environmental Engineer
• Senior Project Manager
• Civil Engineering Manager
• Department Manager
• Practice Leader
• Group Leader
• Project Director
• Associate Principal
• Branch Manager
• Assistant Office Manager
• Office Leader

This individual will have reached a point in their career where they are ready to influence more than individual projects. They want to build a team, grow client relationships, develop employees, improve office performance, and establish a long-term professional legacy.

The ideal leader will be:

• Technically credible and willing to remain hands-on.
• Entrepreneurial without being isolated from corporate support.
• Comfortable leading a small team through a period of growth.
• Motivated by employee ownership and shared success.
• Collaborative, accountable, and responsive.
• Skilled at balancing client service, employee development, production, and profitability.
• Capable of earning trust with clients, employees, regulators, and senior leadership.
• Interested in building an office—not simply inheriting a title.

Compensation and Benefits

SCS Engineers offers a highly competitive compensation and employee-ownership package that includes:

• Base salary of $135,000–$185,000, based on experience, licensure, technical background, leadership history, client relationships, and business-development capabilities.
• Annual bonus opportunity.
• 100% employer-funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or ESOP.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching.
• Medical insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid time off.
• Paid parental leave.
• Student-debt employer contribution program.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Professional-development and career-advancement opportunities.
• Support for professional licenses, continuing education, and industry involvement.
• Relocation assistance for qualified candidates moving to the Orlando area.

SCS’s published benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; an employer-funded ESOP; a 401(k) with employer match; an annual bonus program; paid holidays, PTO and parental leave; and a student-debt employer contribution program. See the position and benefits information.

Final compensation and relocation support will be determined based on the selected candidate’s qualifications and the terms of the employment offer.

Location and Relocation

This position is based in the SCS Engineers Orlando-area office in Maitland, Florida.

The role offers scheduling flexibility but requires a consistent local presence to effectively lead employees, engage clients, develop the office, and participate in the Central Florida business community.

SCS is willing to consider qualified candidates from outside Florida and will provide relocation assistance for the right individual. Candidates with an active P.E. license in another state may be considered if they can obtain Florida licensure through reciprocity.

Career Growth

This position is designed to become increasingly influential as the Orlando operation grows. Long-term opportunities may include:

• Expansion of the Orlando civil and environmental practice.
• Leadership of a larger multidisciplinary office.
• Oversight of additional teams, markets, or Florida locations.
• Regional technical or operational leadership.
• Increased responsibility for strategic clients and major programs.
• Participation in companywide technical and business initiatives.
• Advancement into broader regional or executive leadership.

For a licensed engineer who has been waiting for an opportunity to run an office—but still wants to stay connected to clients and technical work—this position offers a compelling balance of leadership, production, ownership, and growth.

Search Managed by Luxus Group

SCS Engineers has retained Luxus Group | AEC Talent Partners to manage the search for this strategic leadership position.

Luxus Group is a specialized recruiting and executive-search firm serving the architecture, engineering, construction, environmental, infrastructure, and technical consulting industries. Luxus partners with engineering firms to identify and recruit professionals whose technical capabilities, leadership style, career goals, and long-term vision align with each opportunity.

The Luxus Group team will provide qualified candidates with:

• Confidential initial career discussions.
• Detailed information regarding the position, office, and growth opportunity.
• Resume and professional-background consultation.
• Interview preparation and scheduling.
• Compensation and relocation coordination.
• Consistent communication throughout the selection process.
• Confidential representation through offer and acceptance.

All candidate inquiries and applications for this retained search will be handled confidentially by Luxus Group.

Equal Employment Opportunity

SCS Engineers is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

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