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Aviation Project Manager / Office Leader
2025-10-10 Garver Baton Rouge,LA
Description:
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Garver offers its employees programs such as company-paid professional memberships, company support for industry licenses and continuing education opportunities that foster a progressive atmosphere. Garver provides the tools, resources, and environment to develop leaders, stimulate ideas, and accomplish projects. By offering highly competitive salary packages, attractive benefits, and a comprehensive wellness program; Garver walks the talk when it comes to work-life balance.
Founded in 1919, Garver is an employee-owned engineering, planning, and environmental services firm focused on aviation, transportation, buildings, federal, water and wastewater services; surveying; advisory services; and construction engineering and inspection. In the top 100 of Engineering News-Record's Top 500 Design Firms list, with more than 1,400 employees, Garver provides an exceptional level of client service that reflects our people-first culture, which has achieved Zweig Group Best Firm to Work For Legacy Status. Learn how Garver invests in people and places they call home at GarverUSA.com.
Garver is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Our employment practices are based upon an individual's capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
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Garver's growing Louisiana Aviation team is seeking an Aviation Project Manager / Office Leader that will be responsible for performing a wide array of aviation-related business development, design, planning, project administration, and client management services for commercial service and general aviation airports.
Duties and responsibilities of this role will include:
- Market research and business development to create/expand industry relationships, pursue and win engineering and planning projects at commercial service and general aviation airports in Louisiana and the gulf coast.
- Project and client management for both horizontal and vertical design projects at commercial service and general aviation airports.
- Significant design and construction oversight for multiple commercial service and general aviation clients.
- Collaborating and/or coordinating design teams consisting of multi-discipline design engineers, planners and technicians.
- Coordination with clients and funding agencies.
- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering from an ABET accredited program
- 10-20+ years of total experience
- 6-8+ years of experience in civil engineering for airport clients
- Licensed Professional Engineer in Louisiana
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Office software programs such as Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams
- Knowledge of design software packages such as AutoCAD and Civil 3D
- Travel may be required with occasional overnight
- Previous experience managing a multi-disciplined team while overseeing airport improvement project execution
- Established relationships, knowledge of and experience in the Louisiana aviation market, including commercial service airports and general aviation airports.
- Licensed pilot or other aviation-related experience
Grow With Us
Garver offers its employees programs such as company-paid professional memberships, company support for industry licenses and continuing education opportunities that foster a progressive atmosphere. Garver provides the tools, resources, and environment to develop leaders, stimulate ideas, and accomplish projects. By offering highly competitive salary packages, attractive benefits, and a comprehensive wellness program; Garver walks the talk when it comes to work-life balance.
Founded in 1919, Garver is an employee-owned engineering, planning, and environmental services firm focused on aviation, transportation, buildings, federal, water and wastewater services; surveying; advisory services; and construction engineering and inspection. In the top 100 of Engineering News-Record's Top 500 Design Firms list, with more than 1,400 employees, Garver provides an exceptional level of client service that reflects our people-first culture, which has achieved Zweig Group Best Firm to Work For Legacy Status. Learn how Garver invests in people and places they call home at GarverUSA.com.
Garver is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Our employment practices are based upon an individual's capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
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