Senior Director, Engineering Design

Job Description

Position Summary

The Director of Engineering Design will act as the primary liaison between Engineering, Execution, and Operations stakeholders.  This individual will lead the coordination of Engineering deliverables to ensure timely delivery thus supporting bidding and buyout per project schedules. The key responsibility of this position is to monitor interdisciplinary dependencies and resolve all issues between CBI, the Engineering firm, and the General Contractor.  The Director must be a forward thinker, pragmatic, and flexible to drive resolution to complex problems. This individual needs to be a great facilitator and connect the appropriate individuals to overcome obstacles. 

The Director will also be the champion and owner of the “Early Design Management” program.  CBI Engineering is working to increase customer satisfaction by engaging our customer (brewery operations) early in the process.  We seek to review our designs in the early phases, giving the customer an opportunity to give feedback and influence the design to meet their long-term operational needs.  This position would capture all feedback and manage the “Request for Design Change” process.  This role will help evolve the program, its deliverables, process, and program structure. This role will report to the Vice President, Engineering, Automation and Digitalization.

This person will also be responsible for the Architectural, Civil, Structural, and Design Technology disciplines within the Engineering department. He/She will work across all disciplines to ensure we document, deliver, and maintain a library of current design standards and specifications inclusive of our desired materials, means, and methods of construction. This director and their team will ensure owner representation and feedback gets incorporated into “Requests for Information” (RFI’s) and substitution requests.  The director will also work closely with the budget and estimating departments to ensure accurate forecasting and budget adherence.

Responsibilities

• Broad ownership of engineering coordination (Brewing, Packaging, Utilities, Warehouse and Logistics, Architectural, Civil, Structural, Design Technology, Automation, and Digitalization)
• Direct Leadership of Architectural, Civil, Structural & Design Technology disciplines
• Annual design spend greater than $50M
• Resolve project engineering issues between CBI, Engineering and General Contracting that are delaying progress
• Remove roadblocks and make decisions related to the timely flow of information between all stakeholders
• Coordinate and oversee the delivery of design releases in coordination with the sourcing calendar for capital projects
• Implement solutions for any deviation from the sourcing calendar
• Engage appropriate individual(s) that can resolve schedule impacting issues
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of Engineering deliverables
• Facilitate any special requirement of information from engineering
• Ensure designs and construction are executed following corporate safety standards
• Review and comment on engineering deliverables for constructability at all levels of detail
• Provide advice and support to all project leadership throughout the project
• Identify standard process gaps and create defined workflows.  Ensure all processes are communicated to all stakeholders and followed.
• Support the evolution and optimization of CBI’s “Early Design Management” Program
• Enhance and standardize the “Request for Design Change” process and approval flow
• Partner with Budget and Estimating functions to forecast and manage cost of designs
• Lead the development, issuance, and life cycle management of CBI’s Engineering Standards and Specifications
• Track and supervise proper and timely document control, backed by the document control area.
• Develop and maintain a positive and trusting working relationship with all stakeholders
• Model appropriate behavior
• Ensure the CBI culture is followed

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Electrical, Mechanical, or Chemical preferred
• 15+ years of industry specific experience
• Experienced in Engineering Design
• Experienced in Construction and site leadership
• Demonstrates leadership and has experience in managing people
• Able to identify and analyze problems, recommending and implementing flexible and creative solutions based on customer needs
• Demonstrated ability to effectively organize and manage multiple tasks as projects, ensuring completion to meet deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail on multiple simultaneous tasks
• Excellent verbal presentation skills. Excellent written communications skills and ability to docume