Brownfields Practice Leader

Days often shift between client pursuits, internal staffing, and senior technical review — chasing RFPs, sitting on proposal teams, sanity-checking work plans your team has drafted. You might find yourself mentoring younger PMs in the morning and pitching a redevelopment authority in the afternoon. Practice health tends to be measured in revenue, win rate, and utilization.

What's harder than people expect is the gravitational pull of administration — once you're running a practice, hands-on technical work fades. Variance across employers can be wide: at large engineering firms you'll have an operations apparatus behind you; at boutiques you're also the marketing, hiring, and contracts manager.

People who tend to thrive here are comfortable selling, staffing, and signing off in equal measure. Senior credentials (PE, LSRP, or state-equivalent licensure) usually anchor the role. The trade-off is distance from the field: you keep the practice viable so the next generation gets to dig.