Mechanical Discipline Lead

Job Description

Step into Leadership as a Discipline Lead - Mechanical - Peoria, IL

As the Mechanical Discipline Lead, you'll play a key role in guiding project delivery, ensuring the right technical resources are aligned to successfully execute the commitments made to our clients. Working closely with Project and Client Managers, you'll help build, lead, and support multidisciplinary design teams that deliver innovative solutions while meeting client goals, schedules, and budget expectations. You'll provide technical leadership and mentorship across mechanical engineering projects, help drive successful project outcomes, and contribute to the continued growth of the practice through participation in MEP and multidisciplinary business development efforts. This role offers the opportunity to influence both project success and team development while helping deliver exceptional results for a diverse range of clients. Experience with Design-Build projects is a plus.

Take charge of project delivery and resource leadership, ensuring exceptional outcomes for our clients. If you’re an experienced mechanical engineer ready to drive design excellence and engage in multidiscipline sales efforts, we want you on our team!

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Dewberry offers a comprehensive and very competitive package of insurance programs to regular full-time employees and their eligible dependents the first of the month following their date of hire. The insurance package includes: medical, dental, vision, and supplemental life. Additional insurances, at no cost to the employee: life (employee only), accidental death and dismemberment, business travel and accident, and short- and long-term disability are also provided. Employees pay a share of Dewberry’s premium expenses (on a pre-tax basis) for medical and dental insurance plans.

Dewberry offers a wide range of other employee benefits, including: 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan, 529 College Savings Plans, Travel Assistance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Spending Accounts and Supplemental Life Insurance for employee, spouse, and children.

Positions within our officer program are also eligible for an annual bonus and stipend.  Both vary based on level within the program and bonuses are dependent upon company performance.

In addition, a host of discounted purchase programs are available to all employees.

Responsibilities

Supervisory responsibilities of a Discipline Lead include:

• Growing, mentoring, and developing the staff within the department to allow each person to achieve their maximum potential
• Minimum annual evaluations for each direct report
• Providing leadership for department
• Organizing staff in a way to allow career advancement, professional development, quality client service, and operational efficiencies to meet business and project financial goals
• Taking a very active role in recruitment of staff in department including networking, recruitment, interviewing and “deal closing”
• Establishing/improving standards for department operation and workflow
• Ensuring the department is equipped with the tools necessary to be efficient and thorough in producing the work
• Working closely with Principal Engineers within the MEP Department to establish, update and adhere to design standards

Required Skills & Required Experience

Responsibilities:

Discipline Leads are expected to provide the following to others on the design team to effectively and successfully complete projects:

• Work schedule for department showing:
• Project assignments and priorities
• Delivery due dates for group project commitments
• Forecast of Workload/Capacity
• Participate in Go/No Go decisions for commitment of resources necessary to complete projects
• Participate in developing fee proposals and establishing project budgets
• Review project objectives and provide detailed scope of services for contracts
• Identify staff performing design of the project, along with a senior staff member if required
• Identify Engineer of Record
• Adherence to project design schedule
• Notification to Project/Client Managers, in enough time to appropriately handle the situation, if established project design schedule cannot be met
• Adherence to department project budgets.  Review and provide updates on project budgets at milestone dates.  Review discipline budgets weekly.
• Provide general updates of projects (status in the process, tasks to complete, percentage complete currently, etc.)
• Simply put – Department Managers control all production resources and all commitments must come from department leaders.  Conversely – accountability for our deliveries comes from Department Managers.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Accomplished (10+ years of experience) Professional Engineer
• Knowledgeable of construction process, familiar with AIA construction contracts
• Self-motivated with highly developed verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Experience in staff management/department management
• Experience in the design of various MEP systems
• Well organized, takes good notes
• Good conceptual understanding of plumbing, mechanical and electrical systems with general knowledge of system operation, space requirements, cost

The projected range for this position is $154,000-$198,000 annually. Depending upon other factors, i.e., skills, experience, location, market conditions, the range may vary slightly.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employee’s. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters:  Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

#LI-JS1