Instrumentation and Controls Design Engineering Manager

Overview

Join ENERCON’s Design Services Group as an I&C Design Engineering Manager. In this exciting role, you’ll oversee a talented engineering unit, directing projects to success and ensuring exceptional quality standards. Your leadership will extend to business development, staff development, and organizational support, driving the team towards achieving business goals. This role can be based in multiple office locations throughout the US.

Responsibilities

Imagine a day where you lead a dynamic engineering team, transforming challenges into innovative solutions. Empowering your team through mentorship and strategic task assignments, you foster growth and collaboration. In this role, every day is an opportunity to inspire, innovate and lead with purpose.

The following responsibilities are representative of the duties and accountabilities of this position but are not a complete and exhaustive list. Employees may be required to perform additional duties as well as those listed below:    

• Products & Deliverables: Serve as the focal point for initial unit contact to Management, Project Managers (PM) and other internal constituents. Together with the PMs and lead engineers, define the scope of work for work proposals. Direct/assign work to the unit to balance activities between work groups. Maintain responsibility for the unit’s quality and establish and enforce quality standards for the unit. Accept unit’s responsibility of budget and schedule for assigned projects. Assign unit’s Responsible Engineers (RE) and provide recommendation to the Client Engineering Manager of Lead Responsible Engineer (LRE) for unit led projects. Responsible for the approval of engineering documents produced by the unit. Certify design documents as required by state and local client and code requirements
• Business Development: Lead proposal preparation with input for scope and budget to PMs. Develop professional relationships with client counterparts. Assist in marketing the unit’s expertise and abilities to clients
• Leadership & Staff Development: Identify and promote opportunities for site work. Identify and promote training opportunities (ex: owner’s groups, manufacturer, professional society). Utilize the review/approval process of deliverables as a technical training opportunity for staff. Provide timely and appropriate performance feedback and coaching. Promote professional development (ex: professional license, certifications, and client qualifications). Support company policies and procedures. Demonstrate technical leadership, providing resolution to technical issues either through own knowledge or by coordination with Subject Matter Experts. Support the Client Engineering Manager in maintaining, updating, and executing Continuous Improvement Plans. Supervise an Engineering Unit, discipline-specific, comprised of work group lead engineers and engineering staff
• Organizational Support: Responsible for the assignment of engineering resources to projects. Maintain short and long-range staffing projections based on work projections. Approve timesheets and expense reports of direct reports. Conduct unit’s annual performance appraisals. Support management in recruiting new employees       
• Contribution to Business Goals: Meet applied time goals set for position/division/discipline #LI-MB1 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an accredited university
• Typically requires a minimum of 6 years of engineering experience including experience supporting the nuclear power industry and 2+ years of leadership experience for Manager role
• PE License is required 
• Ability to gain and maintain unescorted access at nuclear sites
• Experience working in a Nuclear Power Plant environment and familiarity with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) governing codes
• Excellent verbal communication skills; Comfortable and effective communicator with the team, clients, management, etc., choosing the right mode of communication for the situation and relaying the right message
• Strong technical writing skills and attention to detail
• Strong coordination and team building skills; demonstrated ability to work across disciplines, divisions, and teams
• Ability to assess and understand team strengths and weaknesses and adjust the level of support/oversight as appropriate
• Ability to motivate the team and achieve goals through positive, winning attitude and effective leadership style which is consistent with ENERCON’s Defining Excellence fundamentals 
• Problem-solving and general scientific evaluation skills
• Required to travel up to 15 - 25% of the time to client sites (expected to travel at least one time per month) for project and/or marketing meetings
  • Activities at client sites may require pre-job briefs and walkdowns at the site, including occasional climbing

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Compensation Range

USD $136,000.00 - USD $204,000.00 /Yr.
Additional Information

ENERCON Services, Inc. (ENERCON) is powered by people who make a difference. We offer rewarding careers in a culture built on excellence, innovation, and growth.

Please CLICK HERE to learn more about the potential Benefits you may be eligible to receive with this role and working here at ENERCON.

The compensation range listed is a good-faith estimate of the compensation expected for this position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, geographic location, and internal equity.

Some positions may be performed remotely in one or more U.S. states. Compensation is aligned with applicable pay transparency requirements and reflects expected compensation at the time of posting. 

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer sponsorship. We ask all candidates this question to better understand work authorization and any potential sponsorship needs. Employment is contingent upon passing pre-employment and random drug/alcohol screenings, background checks, and annual motor vehicle record reviews per company and client policies. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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