Mechanical National Lead - OnSite Energy & Power; California

Description

The Technical Manager is responsible for establishing consistency and direction in our technical groups through leadership, direction, and oversight of the technical staff. They will position Burns & McDonnell as a technical leader through establishing market trends and opportunities and providing direction for annual goals to improve technical excellence. The primary mission for the Technical Manager is to foster a culture where technical excellence is valued, recognized, and rewarded for the importance it brings to our organization.

• Manage the development of technical staff and provides guidance that continues to promote technical staff into leadership roles on our project teams.

• Manages the implementation of innovation to engineering processes, focused on efficiency, tools, and technology.

• Cultivates, facilitates, and guides technical execution best practices and documentation across department.

• Manage the application of design-related quality reviews to the practices of the business line.

• Identify and develop future technical staff.

• Work with Human Resources and staff to identify, prepare, communicate, and monitor performance plans for employees with areas of needed improvement. Fosters a creative, cross-discipline, cross-office, and cross-GP mentality within technical teams, enabling them to be better leveraged as a training tool and to be the seam for cross selling knowledge adoption.

• Facilitates identification of goals, objectives, and deliverables within established consistent framework from team to team.

• Establishes and maintains accountability for deliverables.

• Identifies and assigns appropriate development and maintenance of technical resources through teams (specifications, design tools, technology, etc.)

• Manages internal technical training for department, collaborating with resource management to maintain training consistency, effectiveness, and vision.

• Manages continued training for technical staff, establishing balance between internal and external training.

• Oversees training and development for potential Project Engineers and Technical Consultants.

• Fosters and grows mentorship and coaching platform for department technical career track.

• Fosters thought leadership mentality at all levels and positions across department.

• Identifies and communicates market trends in business line.

• Responsible for strategically maintaining and communicating relevant opportunities for industry involvement, including societies and conference attendance.

• Initiates coordination with appropriate business line leadership and department leadership to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to our technical business.

• Sets direction by developing annual goals for improving technical business within department.

• Regularly meet with Department Managers, Project Directors, and Project Managers to coordinate staffing needs, performance, and proper utilization of staff.

• Support Regional Office development and technical resource coordination.

• Support sales and marketing efforts for Department specific projects.

• Demonstrate creativity, foresight, and mature judgement in anticipating and solving problems.

• Recommend changes in basic structure and organization of the department to meet growth strategies and long‑term department objectives.

• Collaborates with technical staff to drive industry focus and strategically plan for involvement to obtain annual technical business goals.

• Drive a culture of quality and continual improvement.

• Facilitate the department design non-conformance and corrective action process.

• Identify and develop corrective actions associated with non-conformance trends in the department.

• Coordinate with quality manager to provide internal audit support, including the development of corrective actions to address audit findings.

• Assess effectiveness of corrective actions and develop alternatives, as necessary.

• Responsible for the recruitment, development, training, and retention of staff.

• Responsible for conducting performance evaluations for department staff.

• Provide leadership, guidance, and instruction to the department.

• Responsible for interpreting the organization's policies, purposes,…