Director Operations, Engineering

Summary

Join CRB as the Director, Engineering, and lead a diverse team of engineers. Manage, mentor, and develop your team while driving the development of all facets of the engineering discipline. Coordinate closely with office and regional leadership. Responsibilities include discipline leadership, people management (approximately 15% of time), and billable project work (60%-75%). Optional responsibilities include project management and business development. The position requires a Bachelor’s Degree, professional licensure, and minimum 15 years of professional experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Professional Licensure
• Minimum 15 years professional experience
• Solid technical foundation in Engineering and thorough understanding of our marketplace
• Externally facing and works well with clients
• Internally works collaboratively with leadership to define strategies that expand our engineering design capabilities while reinforcing CRB values and mission of technical excellence within an integrated practice
• Experience working on life science projects
• Experience working on sustainable design concepts and projects

Responsibilities

• Drive development of all facets of the engineering discipline: Process, Mechanical, Plumbing, Electrical, and Automation
• Externally, help establish and bolster CRB’s reputation and balanced engineering identity
• Provide input to Integrated Project Delivery, EPCM, and Design-Bid-Build construction methods. Areas of focus include project planning, designing to budget, phasing and logistics, and constructability
• Work with engineering leaders in all regions to share best practices
• Drive a continuous improvement culture within our engineering practice by facilitating design discussion and cross-discipline design opportunities
• Enable consistent, effective progress on ‘technical excellence’ to ensure local efforts are aligned with the larger company and will have the desired impact
• Ensure project documentation from the discipline meets the high level of quality to meet client expectations and limit risk to CRB during construction
• Provide team leadership by delivering: a great employee experience through meaningful project assignments; customized career development plans; conflict resolution and support; and a safe, collaborative, and productive working environment
• Proactively ensure all team members have a balanced workload that meets the billability target established for each individual. This includes direct communication with project managers and architectural counterparts within the office, region, and company
• Provide resource assignment decisions and ensure resource commitments are maintained, and that group members are not overloaded or given assignments for which they are not qualified
• Review and respond to resource planning reports on a bi-weekly basis. Proactively communicate with Group Leads and Project Managers if resource plans require updates or clarification
• Attend team, office, and regional resource planning meetings
• Review and approve timesheets
• Perform annual goal planning with the group members and their mentors. Mentor assignments shall be based on technical career growth needs. Work with individuals’ mentors, office leadership, and human resources to utilize CRB employee development tools, such as individual development plans and succession plans. Provide feedback and adjust goals on a quarterly basis, at a minimum
• Perform annual performance review of the group members. Monitor the work quality performance of the group members on projects via direct review and 3rd party reviews from other project team members. Address performance/behavioral issues in a timely manner. Provide performance feedback to the individual on a quarterly basis, at a minimum
• Work with the office and team leadership to determine appropriate size of the staff to meet the long-term workload of the team
• Take a leadership role in interviewing and hiring new group members
• Touch base with group members on a regular basis to best gauge employee satisfaction in an effort to reduce overall group turnover
• Work with the Office Leader to help set and communicate the strategic vision and cultural atmosphere for the office
• Work with the Office Leader on annual business planning efforts for the office and define how the company’s strategic vision and annual goals will be adopted and delivered through execution at an office level
• Serve as client point of contact for new and existing clients by participating in business development and networking activities, maintaining personal client relationships
• Develop win and project delivery strategies for key pursuits and ensure an integrated approach is consistently applied to each project whenever possible
• Participate in local industry groups by representing CRB at local events
• Grow CRB’s standing in the local market and nurture existing client relationships through engagement and a high level of personal and business integrity
• Actively managing projects as a Project Executive, Project Director, or Senior Project Manager
• Be responsible for project staffing, profitability, client satisfaction, and our employee’s experience
• Lead the project’s management team consisting of additional project managers, project engineers, project coordinators, project administrators, and discipline leads
• Provide remarkable experience for our clients and employees and ensure the technical quality of the project
• Interface with client and external partners
• Plan and direct work and manage a project budget form a discipline design perspective on large complex projects
• Work with a Project Manager to proposal development, man-hour planning, project scheduling for the scope of work on large complex level projects
• Identify and resolve intermediate non-compliant existing conditions during site walks and construction field surveys
• Develop construction drawing packages and write construction specifications on advanced and complex projects with little oversight
• Lead and advanced support of construction activities such as RFI responses, submittal reviews, punch list development, and construction progress reports
• Conduct quality checking of documents for intermediate complex projects, e.g., technical verification of design calculations and documentation, and drive overall project quality

Benefits

CRB Offers a complete and competitive benefit package designed to meet individual and family needs