Job Title: Vice President of Engineering
Location: Katy, TX, 77494]
Prioritized Must Have Skills for the Vice President of Engineering:
#1. Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Civil, or Mechanical Engineering
#2. MBA, PMP, or Master's degree in Engineering Management preferred
#3. Registered Professional Engineer (PE) required, and ability to become licensed in additional states as required
#4. 10+ years of substation and relaying experience preferred
#5. 5+ years in the engineering consulting business and managing people
#6. No more than 3 jobs in the last 10 years.
Responsibilities of the Vice President of Engineering:
- Provide professional oversight of Electrical Project Engineers, Project Managers, Designers and Technicians
- Manage accounts and maintaining long-term client relationships
- Conduct career development reviews and identifying growth and learning opportunities for direct reports.
- Oversee office resource billable levels, forecast resource needs and monitor backlog to plan for additional resources/hiring
- Ensure and facilitate project team collaboration with internal and external team members from other offices and communicate across all disciplines to resolve design conflicts as required
- Provide Quality Control (QC) reviews on substation protection and control relaying design, relaying settings, and PE seal for construction design package and setting reports
- Resolve conflicts with both team members and clients
Requirements for the Professional Vice President of Engineering:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Civil, or Mechanical Engineering
- MBA, PMP, or Master's degree in Engineering Management preferred
- Registered Professional Engineer (PE) required, and ability to become licensed in additional states as required
- 10+ years of substation and relaying experience preferred
- 5+ years in the engineering consulting business
- 5+ years managing people
- Competent in developing and maintaining a strong business network
- Competent in researching engineering and design issues and evaluating solutions
- Ability to learn new engineering topics to facility business and team growth
- Process and improvement oriented
- Strong communication skills in recommending engineering solutions and leading teams
- Experience with engineering and design programs and software (AutoCAD, CymTCC, SEL Software, Omicron Testing Universe, in addition to others.)
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
- Construction support experience
- Must be proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and other MS Office applications.
- Knowledge of project management software
- Responsible for employee engagement, performance reviews, interviewing/hiring, work quality, budgets and schedules, mentorship and growth, project execution, client interaction, and business development.
- Ability to provide technical review of project scopes, develop budget estimates and prepare proposals
- Ability to prepare various specification for bid such as equipment specification, labor specification and relay specifications.
- Must have a good understanding of the technological, market, and commercial trends driving the current utility industry transformation.
- Will be responsible for all aspects of the line of business, including maintaining existing clients and generating new clients.
- Must actively support enhancing the Company's overall strategic business vision by supporting the selling and delivery of multi-functional business solutions.
- Must have a general knowledge of all the engineering services that the Company offers and be able to effectively communicate the services to existing and potential clients.
Other Key Requirements:
- This position reports to the Business Unit General Manager.
- No sponsorships or visa holders. No Corp to Corp.
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