Skills:
- Professional Engineer PE
- 5 years of experience in Electrical Engineering Design.
- AutoCAD and Revit electrical spatial and building code concepts.
Role Description
- The Director of Electrical Engineering will be an integral part of the senior leadership team and must have the vision and attitude to help lead our Electrical Engineering Discipline. The position will support the company s firmwide strategic business initiatives provide designfocused thought leadership and help grow the firm s presence within the community.
- The Director of Electrical Engineering will work collaboratively to develop overall design concepts formulate design presentation strategies and provide creative and process leadership to multiple design teams through all phases of projects. The Director of Electrical Engineering will set the design vision and innovative standard for staff and current and prospective clients working to manifest this standard in all project work across multiple market sectors.
- The Director of Electrical Engineering requires strong character strategic vision selfmotivation nimble technical capability adept team leadership and collaboration skills and solid relationships and community standing in the electrical engineering discipline.
- Must be active in local and national professionalrelated organizations.
- The Director of Electrical Engineering will need to collaborate directly with team members across different offices while effectively partnering with office management project management and practice leaders/discipline directors to align design direction with strategic business initiatives profitability goals and company core values.
Summary Of Responsibilities
Promotes and engages the firm s mission vision and goals through design leadership.
Establishes a design approach with the electrical engineering practice leadership that focuses on forming appropriate teams and creating strategies that respond to client expectations.
Implement the design approach through the design process for projects of all scales and types within the practice including guidance of other designers to develop cohesive innovative and clientcentric solutions.
Responsible for developing firmwide design approach and process.
Provides design direction and support to ensure consistent highquality design firmwide.
Guides strategy for design presentations with leadership.
Supervises the implementation of the design process at the beginning of the project and ensures the design process is followed during the evolution of the project.
Strengthen our market reputation and image through thought leadership that is based on value proposition and a differentiated point of view.
Promotes the firm s mission vision core values and strategic plan.Operations
Participates in creating goals and strategies for the practice to be presented to the Executive Committee.
Collaborate with practice leadership to establish budgetary framework and investment strategies for growing the practice.
Engages the design teams through the Directors to implement policies and promote strategies that support the firm s mission.
Participates in practice scheduling and resource allocation in collaboration with practice leaders and project leaders.
Participates with leadership to identify fiscally responsible budgets for initiatives that support the practice.
Collaborates with the practice leadership to establish goals and strategies for quality project delivery.
Guides the design process through reviews critiques charrettes and similar design activities.
May strategically function as a project team member for a single project. Culture
Promotes a culture of design and encourages dialogue by creating and supporting initiatives in the practice and community.
Fosters an inclusive culture of respect and collaboration.
Leads in employee recruitment and retention activities (primarily for design hires).
Actively mentor staff in their growth in the profession and the practice area.
Lead annual employee performance evaluations with practice leadership.
Establishes with the practice leadership the language used to describe our design process and electrical engineering solutions.
Active leader and member of varied professional and community organizations Design
Participates in the process of transforming the program into design solutions that respond to client expectations and the physical and cultural context based on knowledge of electrical engineering construction methods integration of engineering disciplines building costs and codes.
Monitor the design process of projects firmwide.
Participates in marketing strategies by guiding design narratives.
Collaborates with design teams to set the design direction of the project.
Qualifications
Bachelor s degree in electrical engineering from an accredited fouryear college or university.
15 years of experience in Electrical Engineering Design.
Completion of the PE Exam is required. Licensed in the state of Tennessee is preferred.
Must possess a thorough knowledge of the Electrical Engineering Discipline with emphasis on understanding client expectations.
Experience as a lead designer on a variety of project scales and complexities including experience with programming site analysis all phases of design and contract administration.
Experience with sustainable design and benchmarking.
Experience in several engineering practice markets.
Effective graphic verbal and written communication skills.
Problemsolving skills attention to detail and motivation to learn.
Collaborative and professional work ethic.
Understand basic electrical spatial and building code concepts.
Can develop a level of technical detailing.
Is proficient in current design software including but not limited to AutoCAD and Revit (preferred) as well as the Microsoft Office suite.
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