Operations Manager - Woodbury, MN Reports to: Operations Director Deadline to Apply: Friday, February 13, 2026 – 5:00pm CST.
If you are seeking a rewarding career, join our growing firm now! The Woodbury, MN Operations Manager will work closely with team members in Woodbury and Madison, WI to ensure income-earning activities are successfully managed and executed. The Operations Manager is responsible for the overall management of staff, business development, and operations within their assigned geographies.
Responsibilities
LEADERSHIP
- Organize and motivate the team while actively supporting and advocating for Company mission, vision, and initiatives.
- Model the desired culture of the organization.
- Draw out the best in employees within the Operations Managers (OM's) sphere of influence.
- Manage a healthy, constructive tension between project execution and business development and recognize when adjustment is required to maintain balance.
- Establish high expectations and constructively lead the team in accomplishing the goals.
STRATEGIC PLANNING
- Participate in global strategic planning as requested by the Operations Director and Chief Operating Officer.
- Analyze global decisions for alignment to the strategic plan.
- Develop office strategic plans that align to the mission, vision, and global strategic plan of AE2S.
PROJECT/WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT
- Manage direct reports including working directly with senior office staff on the assignment of project teams and inter-office workload coordination.
- Remain up to date in engineering areas of practice and project management by spending approximately 50% of your time completing billable work.
FINANCIAL
- Maintain technical and financial supervision for the branch office. This includes maintaining control of expenses to keep cost of services and overhead at a competitive level, monitoring invoice status, evaluating purchase requirements, reviewing monthly soft-close and staff utilization data to identify key indicators requiring corrective action.
- Work directly with the Operations Directors and members of the Executive Team on the development and execution of office business plans and the compilation of annual office budgets.
- Work directly with the Executive Team, Operations Directors, and other Operations Managers, Practice Leaders, Corporate Managers, and firm leaders on both local and company-wide strategic initiatives.
STAFFING MANAGEMENT / EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT
- General employee management including evaluating individual performance, reviewing compensation, promoting safety, holding performance management discussions, and conducting termination meetings as required.
- Develop individual team members through mentoring, training and coaching. Ensure professional employees obtain the appropriate licensing in the disciplines and geographic areas as required. Provide training opportunities that are in line with the employee’s technical area or personal development goals. In disciplines where a Group Manager exists, this becomes their primary responsibility with guidance and coordination from the Operations Manager.
- Ensure optimal office staffing levels by anticipating workforce needs, strategizing recruitment efforts, interviewing and making informed selection decisions.
CLIENT MANGEMENT / BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
- Maintain and enhance existing and pursued relationships for clients within the geographical service area.
- Maintain effective sales effort to keep personnel productively engaged plus achieving growth objectives.
- Identify, evaluate, pursue, and manage project opportunities.
Other
- Coordinate general office maintenance including access to the filing system, organization of the office space, janitorial work, and repair work.
- Responsible for the safety of those working in or outside of the branch office including conducting fire, security, and safety inspections; to include understanding special safety requirements at job sites to ensure client safety, security, sanitation, and other rule compliance.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
- Registration as a Professional Engineer or the ability to obtain within 6 months.
- 5+ years of experience in civil or environmental engineering.
- Ability to travel as required for business development and project/client responsibilities.
- Financial/budgeting acumen.
- All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in engineering or related field.
- Progressive management/supervisory experience.
- Understands and works within the accepted ethics of the engineering profession.
- Ability to communicate both written and verbally with clients, public, and other employees.
- Ability to multi-task and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
Physical Qualifications
- Ability to walk up to 3-miles on uneven terrain.
- Ability to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time.
- Occasionally climb, stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist.
- Occasionally lift, carry, push, and pull light to moderate amounts of weight.
- May require lifting and carrying up to 20 pounds, with rare lifting of up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to inspect equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- May be required to wear Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) including but not limited to, flame resistant clothing, hard hat, and protective footwear.
- May require occasional evenings and weekends with overtime expectations varying with workload.
- May be required to travel to off-site locations including occasional overnight stays out of town.
Elevate Your Career with AE2S – Award-Winning Culture and Unmatched Benefits
Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services (AE2S) is an award-winning, specialized civil/environmental engineering consulting firm that provides professional services and a unique brand of extreme client service. Our work environment is consistently recognized both locally and nationally for our great culture and values, proven recognition programs, and social atmosphere.
- Great Culture and Spirit where Creativity is Fostered
- Significant Opportunities to Grow and Advance
- 100-percent Employee Owned
- Core Values which Speak to the Heart of AE2S and its Employees
- Large, Diverse, and Challenging Projects with the Latest Technology
- Family-Friendly with Flexibility and Work-Life Balance
AE2S offers more than just competitive compensation and a best-in-class insurance package to our employees and families; our benefit plan is one of the richest plans currently in the marketplace today!
- 100-percent paid Family Health Insurance
- 100-percent paid Employee Dental, Short- & Long-Term Disability, and Vision Insurance
- Discretionary Bonus Plan
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Matching 401(k) Contributions with Discretionary Profit Sharing Contributions
- Paid Time Off (PTO) Credits for Past Experience
- Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness Program
AE2S is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action / Disability Employer
