Process Mechanical Portfolio Discipline Leader

We have an exciting opportunity to lead the Process Mechanical virtual team able to deliver industry leading water, wastewater, and remediation designs to our clients. We are currently seeking a Senior Process Mechanical Engineer to serve as the Process Mechanical Discipline Leader for our Northeast Area market. This is a highly strategic position that requires proven strength in group leadership, design management, and process mechanical engineering design of water and wastewater facilities for our clients.

This candidate will lead a team of fellow process mechanical engineers located in multiple offices. As a team leader, this candidate will manage group workload, hiring, and project assignments, as well as provide mentoring and performance feedback for group employees. Key objectives of the Process Mechanical Discipline Leader role are to: represent the discipline within the Portfolio delivery team, ensure the discipline has the resources to deliver all design projects in the Portfolio, support the client portfolio and Portfolio Design Manager to ensure successful project delivery and support the Portfolio Chief Engineer to ensure successful quality assurance and control of project deliverables.

Job Expectations:

• Supervise Process Mechanical employees; evaluating annual performance, manage performance, mentor, and train.
• Provide regular communication and/or meetings with Process Mechanical team to discuss workload for current and upcoming projects.
• Be responsive to Project Managers (PMs) and Design Managers (DMs) in Local offices.
• Work with PMs and DMs on initial project staffing and staffing issues.
• Discuss options with the PM/DM regarding staffing, schedule, or scope adjustments and escalate issues as required.
• Manage subcontracted Process Mechanical discipline resources
• Build relationships with fellow Portfolio Process Mechanical Discipline Leaders and the National Practice Leader within Brown and Caldwell to solve problems with resources, workload, technical issues, design workflow, quality, efficiency, etc.
• Look for opportunities to cross train staff in other disciplines and share staff across disciplines.
• Participate in technical leadership meetings for the Process Mechanical discipline and provide direction to the team based on information from these meetings.
• Provide leadership for the development of Process Mechanical standards (e.g., specifications, standard details, etc.)  and work with the National Practice Leader to coordinate resources for standards creation and production.
• Maintain workload tracking tool for the Process Mechanical discipline to maintain an understanding of the team’s workload and gaps that may be present.
• Build lists and relationships with subconsultants and on call resources.
• Track and strategize professional engineer registration for your discipline to support work with your team.
• Provide Design Management services for projects as required.
• Perform QA/QC reviews for projects and help ensure all project deliverables meet BC standards.
• Represent the discipline to the Portfolio Client Sales Team with technical sales.
• Support the Portfolio design team in design project pursuits, scoping, and pricing.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• B.S. degree required, M.S. degree preferred in related engineering field of Civil, Environmental, Sanitary, Chemical, or Mechanical Engineering.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively increasing responsibility in related experience preferred.
• Professionally registered engineer required, NCEES record preferred; license must be current and in good standing.
• Demonstrated strong group management and design/project management skills.
• Ability to focus on group and project needs while balancing multiple priorities to include but not limited to project management, design, bidding, and construction management services.
• Strong technical writing skills required.
• Successful marketing, proposal writing, project budgeting, proposal management, and public presentations experience.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with demonstrated ability to conduct effective presentations and written report preparation.
• Successful candidate will have direct experience implementing and updating specifications and standards.
• Effective social and management skills necessary to genuinely motivate and direct staff to produce high quality work and to maintain high individual and group morale.
• Be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and work independently with a willingness to learn.
• Candidate should be a self-starter, results oriented and able to work under tight and pressured deadlines.

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