Engineering Manager

Description:

About the job

Responsibilities

-Experience in both design-build and design-bid-build forms of procurement with contractors and consultants.

-Proficient knowledge of Civil/Mechanical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.

- Developing company-wide frameworks and design systems in relation to civil and mechanical engineering.

-Experience with infrastructure planning, design, and construction management, including active involvement in a variety of rehabilitation and new design projects.

-Developing guidelines to ensure all design decisions minimize cost and time overruns, whilst continuing to deliver high quality projects.

-Overseeing the design submittals/loading assumptions, soft and hard copies of calculations and drawings to provide comments and assurance on design standards, codes of safety and stability, strength and stiffness specifications where needed.

-Working knowledge of relevant local jurisdiction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.

-Reviews private project development plans for compliance with codes, regulations, and standards, adequacy of applications for permits, and compliance with approved plans.

- Participates in the development and implementation of the Engineering Department goals, objectives, policies, and procedures; evaluates the operations and activities of the Department.

- Reviewing and distributing reports to project management in relation to any Engineering updates.

-Hiring new team members, supervising, and guiding multiple engineering teams, and identifying training opportunities and career development strategies to help the team improve.

-Mentoring of junior level project managers as a part of a development initiative.

-Collaborates with other team leaders and departments.

Skills

-Excellent organizational skills, with an ability to prioritize important projects.

-Knowledge of current computer applications for engineering and design including appropriate knowledge of CAD (both 2-D and 3-D) e.g., AutoCAD, MS Word, and Excel for managing design reviews.

-Personnel and project management skills

-Strategic thinking

-Leadership, teambuilding, and mentoring skills

-Flexible thinking, including the ability to pivot and try new approaches when faced with challenges

-Proactive, supportive, inquisitive, challenging and result driven.

-Hard working and motivated with high self-initiative.

-Promote the creation of a work environment, supported by leadership, which fosters openness, trust, communication, teamwork, empowerment, innovation, and satisfaction.

-A professional license from a recognized licensing or registration board.

-Civil/Mechanical Engineering Degree from an accredited university with 20+ years of relevant experience in design management, related to Water projects including management of wet utilities.

-Have an existing network of design consultants with proven capabilities in mixed-use development.