[Remote] Mechanical Engineering Senior Manager - Data Center Mission Critical

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Enercon Services, Inc. is a company focused on excellence, innovation, and growth, seeking a Senior Engineering Manager - Mechanical for their Data Center Mission Critical Group. The role involves leading a team of engineers, ensuring project budgets and schedules are met, and driving business development and organizational support.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the Engineering Unit staff maintain schedules, budgets and quality of deliverables
• Work with Project Managers to define the scope of work
• Direct/assign work to the Engineering Unit to balance activities
• Assigns Lead Responsible Engineer (LRE)
• Maintain responsibility for the Unit’s quality; establish and enforce quality standards for the Unit through the Work Group Leads and Supervisors
• Maintain, update, and execute Unit Continuous Improvement Plans
• Accountable for ensuring project budget and schedule are met for Unit’s assigned projects
• Responsible for the approval of engineering documents produced by the Unit
• Hire, develop and retain staff
• 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 technical training opportunity for staff
• Provide timely and appropriate performance feedback and coaching
• Promote professional development (ex: professional license, certifications, and client qualifications)
• Support, follow, and enforce company policies and procedures
• Identify and develop future leaders of the organization
• Demonstrate technical leadership, providing resolution to technical issues either through own knowledge or by coordination with Subject Matter Expert
• Drive continuous improvement in the organization utilizing the lessons learned and corrective action programs
• Aggressively support marketing efforts and business planning
• Lead proposal preparation with input from discipline supervisors for scope and budget and review final proposals with Project Managers
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with client counterparts
• Assist with development and execution of business plan development and implementation, market assessment and planning, contract negotiation, product and service development
• Attend conferences and meet with clients in person when required
• Responsible for the assignment of engineering resources to projects through Supervisors and Work Group Leads
• Maintain short- and long-range staffing projections based on work projections
• Approve timesheets and expense reports of assigned personnel and other direct reports
• Conduct annual performance appraisals, appropriately documenting regular performance and ensuring performance on both ends of the spectrum, both positive and negative, is managed effectively
• Meets applied time goals for self; in addition, ensures that his/her staff meets their applied time goals

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum 10 years of total experience in mechanical engineering with 5 years in data centers
• Data Center Mechanical Systems Design Expertise with knowledge of sustainability, energy, and CFD modeling
• PE License required
• 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 level of support/oversight as appropriate
• Ability to motivate team members and achieve goals through positive, winning attitude and effective leadership style which is consistent with ENERCON's Defining Excellence fundamentals
• Activities at client sites may require pre-job briefs and walkdowns at the site, including occasional climbing
• Excellent verbal communication skills; Comfortable and effective communicator with staff, clients (internal and external), management, etc., choosing the right mode of communication for the situation and relaying the right message
• Strong technical writing, attention to detail, and human performance skills
• Required to travel up to 20% of the time to client sites (expected to travel at least one time per month) for project and/or marketing meetings

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