Sr. Director Engineering

At Orion Steel Group LLC, our strength starts with our people! As a team we collaborate to solve problems, contribute ideas and challenge each other to ensure growth and ultimately success for the business and our employees.
** Job Description and Responsibilities
** As the Senior Director, Engineering you will provide strategic leadership for engineering, capital investment planning, and project execution across multiple steel recycling, scrap processing, metals recovery, and manufacturing facilities. This executive-level role is responsible for developing and implementing long-term engineering strategies that improve safety, operational reliability, asset utilization, environmental performance, production capacity, and profitability.  
* Develop and execute the Canada and USA Recycling engineering and capital investment strategy to support growth, operational excellence, sustainability, and asset optimization across multiple steel recycling and processing facilities.
* Lead the annual and long-range capital planning process, ensuring capital expenditures align with corporate objectives, operational priorities, and expected financial returns.
* Direct the successful execution of major capital projects from concept through commissioning, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and to specification.
* Provide strategic leadership to engineering, project management, and technical teams, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
* Drive asset reliability, equipment performance, and infrastructure improvement initiatives that increase plant productivity, efficiency, and operational uptime.
* Evaluate and approve capital investment opportunities through financial analysis, including ROI, NPV, lifecycle cost assessments, and risk evaluation.
* Establish and maintain engineering standards, project governance processes, and best practices across all operating locations.
* Ensure compliance with all safety, environmental, regulatory, and permitting requirements while championing a culture of safety excellence.
* Build and manage strategic relationships with contractors, engineering consultants, equipment suppliers, and technology partners to support business objectives.
* Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Finance, EHS, and Executive Leadership teams to identify, prioritize, and implement high-value engineering and capital improvement initiatives.
* Monitor project and portfolio performance through key metrics, providing executive leadership with regular updates, forecasts, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations.
* Identify and implement emerging technologies, automation opportunities, and process improvements that enhance safety, sustainability, operational performance, and long-term competitiveness within the steel recycling industry.
** Requirements*
* * Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), Engineering Management, Project Management, or related field.
* Professional Engineer (P.Eng./PE), PMP, or related professional certification.
* 15+ years of progressive project, program, or portfolio management experience.
* 7+ years of leadership experience managing PMO teams or large project portfolios.
* Strong financial acumen with demonstrated knowledge of Net Present Value (NPV), Return on Investment (ROI), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), payback analysis, and capital budgeting principles.
* Advanced understanding of lifecycle cost analysis, including asset acquisition, installation, maintenance, energy consumption, reliability, and replacement planning.
* Proven ability to evaluate and prioritize capital investment opportunities based on financial performance, operational impact, risk assessment, and strategic business…