Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multiple engineering teams and disciplines, including automation, balance of plant electrical, and balance of plant mechanical engineering.
• Provide supervision, mentorship, training, and technical guidance to engineering leaders, engineers, and department team members.
• Develop detailed engineering plans, schedules, resource requirements, and labor-hour estimates during the Offer-to-Order phase.
• Ensure engineering plans are successfully implemented throughout the Order-to-Cash phase.
• Oversee the development of safe, reliable, timely, and cost-effective engineering deliverables.
• Ensure the effective and timely completion of contract designs, layouts, calculations, procedures, manuals, and technical documentation.
• Cookordinate engineering support for the commissioning, field testing, operation, and maintenance of hydroelectric projects.
• Ensure departmental and integrated engineering standards are consistently followed.
• Lead key engineering processes, including design strategies, design reviews, design freezes, lessons learned, and technical risk assessments.
• Serve as a key technical representative for the organization when communicating complex engineering matters internally and externally.
• Cookordinate integrated engineering teams to optimize modernization and new equipment designs.
• Support projects involving efficiency improvements, power output uprates, equipment life extensions, and safe and reliable plant operations.
• Support annual financial goals and long-term engineering and business objectives.
• Promote engineering development through Root Cause Analysis reports, Corrective Actions, and updates to the Lessons Learned database.
• Provide engineering support to proposal teams, sourcing, manufacturing, field operations, and other departments throughout the product lifecycle.
• Evaluate technical risks during both the proposal and project execution phases.
• Conduct and participate in design reviews, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis processes, and other engineering risk assessments.
• Maintain and improve engineering standards, technical design guidelines, manuals, and procedures.
• Ensure engineering activities are completed on schedule, within budget, and according to contractual and technical requirements.
• Drive a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• At least 15 years of relevant engineering experience within automation and/or balance of plant environments.
• Experience within energy, hydroelectric power generation, or a closely related power generation environment.
• At least 10 years of experience as an engineering lead, supervisor, or manager.
• Proven experience successfully leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and complex engineering projects.
• Experience managing engineering activities throughout proposal, design, manufacturing, construction, commissioning, and operational support phases.
• Experience developing engineering project plans, schedules, resource estimates, and labor-hour estimates.
• Strong understanding of automation and balance of plant products, systems, and engineering deliverables.
• Experience evaluating technical risks through design reviews, FMEA processes, Root Cause Analysis, and Corrective Actions.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver engineering projects on schedule and within budget.
• Strong leadership, teamwork, collaboration, and mentoring abilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and time management skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy.
• Able to proactively plan upcoming work based on project and business needs.
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced engineering and project environment.
• Able to drive a culture focused on engineering quality, safety, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Able to travel as required.
• Able to work within office, field, manufacturing, and industrial environments.
• Able to occasionally lift up to 50 pounds and climb ladders when required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Experience leading engineering teams within a global power generation or hydroelectric organization.
• Experience supporting modernization, equipment uprate, life-extension, and new hydroelectric power generation projects.
• Experience coordinating engineering activities across global business units, manufacturing facilities, suppliers, field teams, and corporate engineering groups.