Energy Plant Design Manager

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Are you ready to elevate your career with a global leader in infrastructure solving complex problems and generating a positive outcome on people’s lives? At Ferrovial, we are not just a company; we are a community of innovators and trailblazers. Listed on three major stock markets: Nasdaq (US), Euronext Amsterdam (Netherlands) and IBEX 35 (Spain), we are also member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and FTSE4Good. We operate in more than 15 countries and have a workforce of over 24,000 professionals worldwide., including Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy.

Ferrovial Construction is internationally recognized for its capacity to design and build civil engineering and construction projects, mainly in large transportation infrastructure. Its track-record to date includes more than 304 miles of tunnels, 11,930 miles of roads (including 2,485 miles of highways), 2920 miles of railroad lines (including 434 miles of high-speed railroads) and 16,994 miles of road maintenance and repair.

Why Ferrovial?

• Global presence, local impact: Be part of a company that is shaping the future of infrastructure worldwide, with challenging roles and projects that make a real difference.
• Collaborative excellence: Work alongside talented professionals in a collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions are valued.    
• Inclusive Culture: Thrive in an innovative and respectful workplace that values every voice, celebrates what makes us unique and turns differences into innovation.
• Career growth: Benefit from global and cross-business unit mobility, with development processes designed to ensure your professional growth.
• Compelling benefits and employee wellbeing: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that rewards your hard work and dedication and take advantage of initiatives designed to support your physical and psychological health.
• Productivity tools: Utilize cutting-edge tools like Microsoft Copilot to enhance your productivity and efficiency.

Job Description:

Energy Plant Design Manager:

We are seeking an Energy Plant Design Manager to join our Project Management Office (PMO) team. The role will assist with the bidding and delivery of airport projects.

An Energy Plant Design Manager leads multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver optimized designs for energy plants, ensuring technical excellence, risk management, and client satisfaction. This role demands extensive experience, technical expertise, and leadership capabilities in managing complex projects across various energy generation types.

This is an exceptional opportunity for professional growth within Ferrovial’s Major Projects activity in North America. The company’s strategic investment in the United States ensures a robust pipeline of infrastructure projects, offering long-term career development and advancement for those who join these new ventures.

Duties:

· Lead and manage both internal and external engineers within MEP disciplines and coordinate design activities amongst other design disciplines, Construction, external consultants, and Clients.

· Makes technical assumptions, thinks independently to complete assigned work, and draws engineering conclusions.

· Provide the best technical solutions to optimize the design, minimizing quantities and/or construction time, while all technical requirements are met.

· Due diligence and review of Energy Plant and MEP design submittals provided by subconsultants and clients, performing quality control reviews, checking the design with independent analyses and models.

· Monitor and report progress against design schedule. Review and approve tasks to ensure deadlines are met.

· Defend solutions in front of the Client achieving the approval of the design.

· Be vigilant and anticipate technical risks and design strategies to protect the company against those technical risks.

· Perform leadership activities, including mentorship and guidance of junior employees, showing them the path to increase their technical level. Offer to all engineers in that discipline the most advanced technical knowledge and cutting-edge technologies.

· Coordinate with Clients, Engineering consultants and other stakeholders to discuss on and solve design and construction related topics.

· Work in a multidisciplinary environment, actively communicating with the rest of the Team also involved in the design and construction works to identify needs and evaluate alternative solutions.

· Estimates of bill of quantities (Including generation of quantities and performing Quality checks on quantities by consultants).

· Other duties as assigned involved with energy plant design as natural gas and nuclear generation, utility power, gas and diesel generators, back-up energy, etc…

Qualification:

· Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Energy Engineering required obtained from an accredited U.S. college or university, preferably one of the premier civil engineering programs in the U.S.

· MSE in Energy or Mechanical engineering.

· Registration as a Professional Engineer (P.E.) in at least one state.

· 10+ years’ experience in relevant Energy Plant design projects. At least 5 of these years in the Project Manager/Design Manager position with project management responsibility on large complex multidisciplinary aviation projects.

· Knowledge and practical experience with MEP design software

· Strong computer skills and proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Bluebeam, Doc controller software, and PowerPoint.

· Demonstrated qualities of leadership and hard work.

· Ability to read and interpret construction documents, drawings and 3D models, and specifications

· Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills

· Must possess strong attention to detail and can work in a fast-paced environment; an eagerness to learn and apply your engineering skills to develop creative problem-solving designs/ideas

· Global mobility along US required for other opportunities

· Strong commitment to high standards, integrity, and ethics.

Seize the challenge. Move the world together! Innovative, creative, respectful, and diverse are some of the ways we describe ourselves. We are motivated by challenges, and we collaborate across our business units to move the world together. Your journey to a fulfilling career starts here!

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