Branch Manager

Description

• Strategic Planning: Play a key role in regional strategic planning, promoting the UES brand, and ensuring our commitment to quality and integrity is reflected in every client interaction.
• Travel on foot across uneven, rugged, or obstructed terrain, sometimes in areas inaccessible by vehicle.
• Operational & Cultural Stabilization: Take ownership of stabilizing the branch’s operations and reputation, ensuring regulatory compliance, and fostering a positive, high-accountability work environment that attracts and retains talent.
• Seller-Doer Leadership: Manage the branch's technical deliverables while actively leading relationship-building and business development to identify and secure opportunities in this rapidly developing market.
• P&L and Financial Management: Collaborate closely with the Atlanta support team to master and manage all P&L responsibilities, budgeting, forecasting, and optimizing resource allocation.
• Work is performed at a desk for extended periods using a computer, phone, and standard office equipment in a climate-controlled office environment.
• Work at outdoor sites including wetlands, forests, grasslands, construction zones, and undeveloped land.
• Team Development: Lead, mentor, and empower the diverse technical team, focusing on technical excellence, employee development, and collaborative problem-solving.

Requirements

• Licensure: Professional Engineer (P.E.) or Engineer in Training (EIT) is highly preferred
• Team Leadership: Strong leadership and team management skills, with a proven ability to motivate, guide, and develop a small team for high performance.
• Regular in-person communication with team members, clients, and stakeholders is required.
• Ability to use sensory capabilities to see (including close and distant vision, color perception, depth perception, and focus) and smell for observation and safety purposes.
• Financial Acumen: While financial management experience is a plus, candidates must demonstrate a strong willingness to learn and collaborate closely with the Atlanta office support team to master financial and P&L processes.
• Problem-Solving: Exceptional adaptability and problem-solving skills, with a strategic ability to identify inefficiencies and implement effective solutions.
• Relationship Building: Highly effective communication and relationship-building skills are essential.
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Geotechnical Engineering, Materials Testing, or Civil Engineering
• Ability to bend, twist, reach, stoop, kneel, climb, and balance as needed during both lab and fieldwork.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both verbal and written formats in varied environments, often while wearing PPE.
• Business Development Focus: Must possess the ability to develop key political and business connections locally to identify and secure opportunities in a smaller, rapidly developing market.
• Exposure to varying weather conditions including heat, cold, humidity, rain, or sun.
• Ability to stand, walk, drive, and operate lab and field equipment for extended periods.
• This position requires occasional travel, approximately 10% to 20% of the time, to support business objectives and client engagements. Travel may be both scheduled and on short notice, depending on project needs. Destinations typically include job sites, field locations, or regional offices, where work may be conducted in outdoor or operational environments. Adherence to all company safety protocols and use of PPE is required during travel and on-site work.
• Ability to lift and carry between 35–75 lbs. of equipment or samples over distances up to 75 feet.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance