The Engineering Director is responsible for ensuring projects within the electrical group maintain compliance with current codes and industry standards. This position involves early design decision and direction, development of quality improvements, and acts as the QA/QC lead for all projects.
Requirements
- Manages medium complexity non-prime or prime multidiscipline projects with subconsultants
- Ensures compliance with client and internal management system requirements and Implements project delivery procedures
- Proficiency in Primera’s financial and project management applications
- Advanced knowledge of loss prevention practices
- Assist with initial scoping of projects and attend client meetings to present approach options
- Ensures projects are compliant with department technical standards (specs, details, etc.)
- Develop training sessions for department employees, bringing in industry speakers, and vendor reps to disseminate trainings on current trends in building systems industry
- Maintain involvement and oversight of projects, from initial conceptual design and study phases to project completion
- Teams with group manager to develop the training plans for department personnel, including development/sourcing of training materials and seminars coordinating the required trainings with approval of the Division Manager
- Responsible for QA/QC duties for projects, ensuring that Primera quality standards are met prior to stamping and signing of documents
- Responsible for ensuring the group has best technologies to meet evolving needs of clients
- Develop and maintain updated professional resource libraries well as department software tools
- Involved with technical committees and memberships, and submit technical papers to journals
- Advanced knowledge of IEEE and BICSI standards
- Advanced knowledge of key performance parameters for electrical power equipment and their sustainable design.
- Maintains department design instructions
- Experienced with key architectural considerations for electrical equipment such as a room sizing, shaft sizing, clearances, ceiling and interstitial space constraints
- Ability to manage the development and maintenance a quality technical infrastructure of design process, instructions, templates, and forms.
- Ability to supervise assigned administrative staff
- Ability to stay current with technology in a cost efficient and productive manner
Benefits
- 401K match
- Employee stock ownership
- Gym and transit subsidies
- Paid volunteer time off
- Parental leave
- Continuing education reimbursement
