FDOT Transportation Programs & Initiatives Lead

The Opportunity RS&H is seeking a highly organized, strategic, and adaptable Transportation Program & Initiatives Lead to support executive-level operational priorities across a complex transportation infrastructure environment. This is an embedded position that will report to the office 5 days per week.

This position will serve as a trusted right hand to senior leadership, helping translate executive direction into action, coordinate cross-functional priorities, prepare leadership materials, manage follow-up, and drive execution on high-visibility initiatives. The ideal candidate will be someone who can operate with urgency, discretion, and sound judgment; quickly understand complex transportation, infrastructure, and operational topics; and help keep people, priorities, and decisions moving forward. The role requires strong executive presence and excellent communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic extension of senior leadership, helping manage priorities, follow-up items, and time-sensitive operational needs.
• Track key commitments, decisions, and action items from executive meetings and ensure follow-through across internal and external stakeholders.
• Prepare briefing materials, meeting notes, talking points, presentations, executive summaries, and status updates.
• Help organize and prioritize complex information related to transportation operations, program delivery, client needs, stakeholder issues, and internal initiatives.
• Coordinate across project teams, operations leaders, technical staff, communications teams, and external partners to move priorities forward.
• Support special projects and strategic initiatives
• Help leadership prepare for meetings, client discussions, industry events, internal reviews, and operational decision-making.
• Partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate conversations into clear next steps and actionable work plans.
• Maintain a high level of confidentiality, professionalism, and judgment when handling sensitive business, client, personnel, or operational information.
• Support communication and coordination related to major transportation programs, public-sector clients, strategic initiatives, and organizational priorities.

To Be Succesful In This Role, You Must

• Have experience in transportation, infrastructure, engineering consulting, public-sector transportation, program management, public engagement, strategic communications, policy, legislative affairs, or executive operations.
• Professional Engineer licensure or technical transportation background is a plus, but not required.
• Prior experience supporting senior executives, agency leaders, program executives, or large-scale transportation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of how transportation agencies, infrastructure programs, or engineering/consulting organizations operate.
• Ability to quickly synthesize technical, operational, political, and stakeholder information.
• Experience preparing executive-level communications, briefing materials, presentations, or program updates.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, competing deadlines, and evolving direction.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with limited structure.
• Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to work with senior leaders, technical professionals, clients, public agencies, and external stakeholders.
• Engineering, planning, communications, public administration, business, or related degree preferred.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of experience in transportation, program/project management
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives or programs

The Team From managed toll lanes and long-range corridor plans, to complex segmental bridges, our teams are providing the highest quality infrastructure and facility solutions. Each day, we partner with transportation agencies and local governments across the country to keep our communities moving. By joining our team, you too can lead the evolution of transportation.

The Company Employee-owned, RS&H is one of the nation’s leading architecture, engineering, and consulting firms, with associates who work hard every day to create tomorrow together. We offer an exceptional journey from start to future. Our integrated teams translate experience into insight, turn challenges into opportunities, and build relationships that are as strong as the buildings and infrastructure we deliver together. We attribute our success to our unwavering commitment to our core values: integrity, accountability, curiosity, and teamwork.