Engineering Director, Food & Beverage

About Us:

BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping our clients realize their most critical goals from Strategy to Commercialization. As the only firm born from a manufacturing technology company to become an independent and fully integrated firm, we combine deep domain expertise in the manufacturing environment with an approach that is built to serve the dynamic needs of our clients. Rooted in our distinct culture of Truly Human Leadership, we cultivate the leaders who will define tomorrow and partner with our clients in the food & beverage, life sciences, industrial, and advanced technology industries to build the future of manufacturing and technology.

 

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

 

Job Description:

Director

Who You’ll Work With

You will join one of our 45 offices in the US, be part of a committed team of over 1500 professionals, and work in teams and directly with our clients doing work that is shaping the world around us. You will be welcomed into a rapidly growing business and team and empowered to make an impact. You will be valued, cared for, and challenged on your path to becoming a world-class professional consultant and surrounded by leaders who are committed to creating an environment that enables you to realize your own success and fulfillment.

When you join Design Group as a Director you are joining a team that will challenge you and position you for growth. In this role, you will work with a team of industry experts to help the world’s leading companies solve their most difficult problems.

What You’ll Do

As a Director, you will be responsible for leveraging your past professional experiences and industry relationships, along with Design Group’s engineering and construction offerings to expand our presence by developing client relationships and project opportunities. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team in the design and execution of food and beverage, consumer health, fast moving consumer goods and other industry sector manufacturing projects for our clients. We seek a passionate, high achieving professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. A leader, mentor, coach with infectious enthusiasm who lifts others to his/her level and exhibits uncompromising dedication to client welfare. A subject matter expert who understands manufacturing and distribution operations and can work with Clients to develop diverse solutions to their problems. 

You also need to meet client needs and guide them in industry leading best practices for complex projects that require the integration of architecture, regulatory compliance, essential process engineering, packaging integration, and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering. You will need to be actively involved in the execution and be able to lead all phases of design which includes feasibility studies, planning, concept development, scope definition, detailed design, and construction documentation.

Responsibilities

• As a senior leader in the firm, you will be expected to help secure new engagements as you begin to understand how we operate, our key areas of strength, how we price our services, etc.  
• Develop a plan and approach required to engage new client relationships and opportunities
• Lead and/or manage multiple projects in the Food & Beverage market sector.  In this role, you will leverage your technical skills, expertise, and leadership skills to successfully deliver services and/or projects that meet or exceed the client’s expectations.  In this role it is expected that you will be providing project leadership to other Design Group professionals. 
• Support the development and recruiting of Project Managers and Project Engineers to help grow the Design Group team.
• Leverage the extensive Design Group engineering team to deliver successful projects
• Consistently seek new value-add opportunities for clients and Design Group
• Lead with an uplifting entrepreneurial spirit
• Inspire excellence in all aspects of performance and project execution
• Display enthusiasm and excitement for client projects that lifts project teams to high levels of job satisfaction
• Innovate and improve design and service delivery method and processes
• Build and sust