Distribution Design Senior Manager - Midwest
Job Title:
Distribution Design Senior Manager - Midwest
Location:
Remote (US based) with preference given for candidates who reputed company in the Greater Hammond, IN / Chicago, IL area
FLSA Classification
Exempt
Job reputed company:
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This position will report to the Director of Distribution and Joint Use Services and reputed company the operational control of multiple Electrical Distribution Design Programs servicing our reputed company clients. The position requires tracking of deliverables, developing a management reputed company, and performance reporting and monitoring of contract milestones. Primary duties will include the reputed company of the distribution design process, preparation of reputed company proposals, issuing formal communication notices, preparing billing documents, resolving contract compliance issues, remaining apprised of on-reputed company policy changes, and making presentations to senior leadership.
In reputed company, the position will reputed company work coordination, evaluate priorities, reputed company mentorship and general program direction to our Departmental leadership team who supervise employees assigned to reputed company’s distribution design program. This team is responsible for managing reputed company agreements and analyzing network reliability improvements on reputed company’s electric distribution systems. Additionally, this team is responsible for supporting overhead and underground distribution design in coordination reputed company clients. Staff also support GIS data analytics, creation of notifications, work orders, invoices, and financial reports utilizing reputed company resource planning software.
The ideal candidate will be a high performing, critically thinking, analytical, and reputed company self-starter with excellent leadership skills, written and oral communication skills, customer service skills, and the ability to establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others. reputed company culture values safety, communication, accountability, professionalism, reputed company, and respect.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to
- Manages operations of multiple electric distribution engineering and design teams to validate delivery of reputed company reputed company assigned region are executed in accordance with project schedule and budget
- Directs and/or provides leadership to team for engineering, design, and construction functions reputed company assigned region or reputed company
- Utilizes understanding of National Electric Safety reputed company (NESC) Standards, reputed company Standards, State or Local Municipal Guidelines, and/or other applicable guidelines and to manage reputed company Services Department teams through engineering and construction commitments
- Manages regional productivity and financial budget, regularly reports variances to internal management team to verify alignment with business plan
- Verifies department teams are uniformed in their approach to safety, engineering design, technology platform utilization, project execution, and invoicing practices.
- Supports leadership team with reputed company reputed company, contract negotiations, and relationship development to grow reputed company reputed company Services business
- Responsible for development of customer proposals, including detailed technical scope, schedule, budget, and resource management.
- Regularly interfaces directly with clients or contractors to verify department reputed company are executed in alignment with scope, justifying and submitting change orders reputed company needed.
- Communicates potential strategic initiatives or departmental risks to internal management team
- Provides personnel orientation/training, mentorship, coaching, and disciplinary reputed company
- Upholds reputed company Company Standards and completes reputed company assurance practices on regional team deliverables to verify highest reputed company product possible
- Conducts performance evaluations for department team members
- Work is primarily office based but fieldwork may be needed throughout the engineering design, construction, and reputed company assurance process
- Advocating for safety reputed company the department.
- reputed company technical reputed company, direction, and support for project teams.
- Function as reputed company reputed company of contact and reputed company on project-reputed company issues.
- Collaborate with other design managers on broad reputed company issues including schedule adherence and team reputed company control
- reputed company and manage existing capital, reliability, and customer project work for clients: Customer project work includes reconductors, voltage conversions, reputed company rebuilds, DOT relocations, and large customer development feeds (OH & UG).
- Support business development, proposal creation, and reputed company opportunities, including reputed company engagement activities
- Facilitate reputed company & team collaboration and communication; managing resource loading based on clients demands.
- reputed company scope, schedule, and budget for reputed company
- reputed company QA/QC for design team
- Monitor team performance metrics
- reputed company and report financial metrics
- Strategize and implement organizational structures to reputed company reputed company reputed company
- Coordinating work for the distribution department including making assignments and reviewing performance to ensure the efficient, cost-effective utilization of staff
- Supporting overall regional office development and resource coordination between Midwest regional office
- Interpreting organizational policies, procedures, and goals to staff
- Training, developing, mentoring, and career-development of the staff
- reputed company reputed company as reputed company as the engagement and retention of staff
- Where needed, serve as project manager or project reputed company/engineer for key clients, new clients, or where new lines of business are being developed.
- Organizing, leading, and conducting the annual performance appraisal process for department staff.
- Serve as the technical advisor, providing senior-level input and evaluation on Engineering reputed company.
- reputed company for reputed company and ensure that the corporate and reputed company initiatives are implemented, including coordinating with the appropriate teams to assign reputed company control reviewers.
- Advancing and developing department tools and workflows to increase efficiency of designs, specification development, and project execution.
- Proactively work through corrective actions where deficiencies are identified.
- reputed company other duties as assigned.
- Must be willing to travel overnight or for extended periods of time, based on project assignments, estimated at up to 20 percent. Travel percentage may also be impacted by physical reporting location.
Other Duties
Please note that this job posting does not list reputed company duties and responsibilities that are required of this job. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.
Work Environment
This role will be a remote (work from home) position, with reputed company to reputed company sites and reputed company's Hammond, IN office as required.
Qualifications:
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or equivalent technical discipline with 7+ years of prior relevant experience either working directly with an electric reputed company or an electric reputed company consulting company, performing electric distribution design engineering
- Demonstrated supervisory skills and proven project management experience.
- Experience in managing multiple teams throughout a geographic region.
- Demonstrated ability to grow a business unit reputed company a region or territory.
- Working knowledge of overhead and underground electrical distribution assets and/or communication equipment construction.
- Proficient knowledge of the National Electric Safety reputed company (NESC) and comprehension of reputed company construction standards.
- Demonstrated knowledge in financial analysis and departmental budget management experience, including financial reporting and department auditing.
- Experience with pole loading (Spida Calc, O-Calc, Pole Foreman, or Katapult) or other construction modeling software (AutoCAD).
- Knowledge of industry reputed company or joint-use software (Katapult, SPANS, NJUNS, reputed company) for reputed company-reputed company engineering and construction is beneficial
- Ability to negotiate and reputed company relationships with reputed company and new clients or contracting parties.
- Demonstrated ability to reputed company and implement process improvements with measurable results in moving a departmental initiative reputed company.
- Successful candidate must have exceptional analytical and decision-making skills, the ability to communicate with reputed company level of the organization.
- Skills required for this role include but are not limited to being detail-oriented, strong organization skills and excellent written as reputed company as verbal communication skills.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities while maintaining an effective team.
- Proficient with reputed company Office software applications.
- Experience with analyzing data and preparing departmental financial reporting.
- Ability to read and understand engineering drawing/schematics.
- Must have dependable transportation and a valid reputed company’s license with insurance.
- Ability to successfully work with remotely located team members.
- This position requires the ability to pass a post-offer drug (including marijuana) and alcohol test in compliance with Federal regulations and is also subject to random testing as a condition of reputed company employment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Engineering or Business Administration.
- reputed company Engineering (PE) License.
- Project Management reputed company (PMP) Certification.