Foth is a 100% member-owned science and engineering consulting firm headquartered in Wisconsin, with over 85 years of success. Our 750 members across 33 locations are dedicated to solving our clients’ toughest science and engineering challenges. Consistently ranked by Engineering News Record in the top 150 firms, we offer a values-based, collaborative, and flexible work environment with professional growth opportunities. If you thrive working alongside a smart and caring team, Foth may be the place for you.
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At Foth, we believe exceptional work starts with exceptional people. We are seeking a Resource Operations Manager based in Des Moines or Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to lead the development of approximately 50 team members. In this unique leadership role, you will combine talent development, strategic workforce planning, and team leadership to help employees grow their careers while ensuring project teams have the talent and resources needed to successfully serve our clients. Partnering closely with Project Managers and Technical Leads, you will shape the member experience, strengthen workforce effectiveness, and foster a collaborative, values-based culture of continuous learning. This role is ideal for someone who is highly collaborative, naturally people-focused, and energized by helping others succeed. Travel of 25-50% is required.
At Foth, every employee has a dedicated leader focused on their growth and success. If you take pride in building relationships, developing people, solving challenges through collaboration, and contributing to a culture where people genuinely care about one another, we'd love to meet you.
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead the development, engagement, and overall member experience for approximately 50 team members.
- Facilitate member reviews by providing timely feedback, performance coaching, professional development, career advancement opportunities, recognition, and succession planning.
- Provide proactive member communication and support team building and change management activities that foster an intentional culture.
- Identify workforce needs through partnering with Project Managers and Technical Leads on estimating, proposals, staffing decisions, resource conflicts, and member utilization.
- Participate in resource leadership and appropriate client team or project meetings.
- Partner with recruiting to interview, select, and develop offers for new members in alignment with compensation standards.
- Lead new-member integration, including timely access to equipment, workspace, software, training, personal protective equipment, and required safety training.
- Administer compensation and bonus programs consistently.
- Model Foth values through inclusive, ethical, transparent, safety-minded, and accountable leadership while delivering high-quality, timely work.
Required Qualifications:
- Experience leading, coaching, or developing employees while balancing workforce or resource planning responsibilities.
- Ability to build trusted relationships and influence decisions in a matrixed organization.
- Experience providing feedback, navigating performance conversations, resolving conflict, and maintaining confidentiality.
- Experience collaborating across project, technical, recruiting, and Human Resources teams.
- Ability to work from the Des Moines or Cedar Rapids office and travel 25-50% to support other locations.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in engineering consulting, professional services, or another project-based environment.
- Experience supporting geographically dispersed employees.
- Experience across the talent lifecycle, including recruiting, onboarding, compensation, development, succession planning, and engagement.
Skills Required
- Experience leading, coaching, or developing employees while balancing workforce or resource planning responsibilities.
- Ability to build trusted relationships and influence decisions in a matrixed organization.
- Experience providing feedback, navigating performance conversations, resolving conflict, and maintaining confidentiality.
- Experience collaborating across project, technical, recruiting, and Human Resources teams.
- Ability to work from the Des Moines or Cedar Rapids office and travel 25–50% to support other locations.
- Experience in engineering consulting, professional services, or another project-based environment.
- Experience supporting geographically dispersed employees.
- Experience across the talent lifecycle, including recruiting, onboarding, compensation, development, succession planning, and engagement.
What We Do
By combining science, engineering, and technology with a true collaborative spirit, Foth has delivered innovative solutions to our clients since 1938. Our history has been shaped by the evolving needs of our clients – expanding our services, locations, and membership to provide client-centered service. While the challenges we solve and the way in which we solve them have evolved over the years, our commitment to our clients, members, and our communities, as well as our focus on health, safety, and quality have never wavered. Headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Foth employs 650 members in 28 locations to provide our national and international clients with convenient, personal service. Our dynamic science and engineering teams are organized into business units – Environment Solutions, Infrastructure Solutions, and Production Solutions – each comprised of extraordinary talent embodying decades of knowledge and specialized expertise. We bring our rich history, tradition of success, and interdisciplinary knowledge to every client we serve, understanding their business, providing trusted advice, and developing customized, innovative solutions with remarkable energy and ingenuity. As a private industry or public entity, you can trust Foth to serve as an extension of your team. Whether you need to build new infrastructure, meet complex environmental regulations, or optimize your manufacturing operations, we’ll deliver the results you need by listening, learning, and asking the right questions. Collaboration is at the core of our purpose to solve your toughest science and engineering challenges.
