Transmission Line Department Manager; Chicago

Description

This position is responsible for the managerial direction, leadership, development and growth of the Transmission Line department in the Great Lakes Region (GLR) Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Chicago Office. This role will report to GLR’s Operations Director and will work closely with current GLR T&D Transmission line managers, the other GLR T&D leadership team, and the national Transmission Line leadership team.

In addition to the duties below, this position will continue to carry out Transmission Line engineering and/or project management assignments. Specific areas of responsibility for this position include the following, with other duties assigned by senior management as needed:

• Advocate for safety within the business line and drive a culture focused on safety and compliance with company, regional, and site safety policies.
• Actively foster a culture based on our Mac Culture principles, quality, diversity and inclusion, and team cohesion and camaraderie.
• Provide overall leadership to the team through effective communication, empowering others, and servant leadership.
• Responsible for fostering a healthy, vibrant, and inclusive employee-owner culture within the team through the leverage of sound team-building practices, the promotion and administration of effective conflict resolution, the promotion of ownership mentality, a healthy work-life balance, and community engagement.
• Develop and lead initiatives that foster an innovation culture that challenges the norm and utilizes tools, technology, and processes to drive continuous improvement and efficiency.
• Accountable for the development of leadership within the department and for assisting with the overall leadership development within GLR T&D. Proactively communicate to staff the vision, expectations, requirements, processes, and guidelines to meet department, global practice and company objectives.
• Interpret and support established policies, procedures, purposes, and strategic goals for the department and GLR T&D Global Practice to staff.
• Build strong partnerships and relationships with the super region teams, Kansas City and other regional office teams, including the Burns & McDonnell India and Mexico City teams.

• Facilitate profitable and sound growth of the department by coordinating with management to achieve stated targets and standards for financial performance. This includes coordination of resources with all other GLR transmission line offices.
• Proactively share information with the department through Mac Central and department meetings and continually look for ways to better disseminate the information.
• Make intentional efforts to maintain personal technical proficiency and connection to the core business line and various segments.
• Regularly coordinate and collaborate with GLR T&D business line management, technical management, account management, project management, and other leads to build cohesion and tie the needs of our people to the needs of our business.
• Develop and maintain a strong relationship with national business line management, PMs, segment leads, and other key leadership to support the development of our people.
• Pursue alignment and support of all location office efforts and initiatives.

• Work in various recruiting channels including but not limited to HR Recruiting team, staffing agencies, staff referrals, and direct communication to proactively recruit the best candidates that align with Mac Culture principles, department needs, growth strategies and business objectives and retainage of staff.
• Utilizes the GLR T&D recruiting guidelines to purposefully interview, assess and hire prospective candidates while remaining diligent to uncover and combat unconscious bias throughout the entire interview process.
• Support HR on educational partnerships and internship programs.
• Support the Assistant Department Managers and the early careers recruiting team to drive recruiting efforts at colleges and universities in the region.
• Responsible for onboarding processes for those transitioning into the Transmission Line department. This includes but is not limited to contract…