Technical Director - Transmission & Distribution

Chart your own course and change the world — with the support of people whose interests are aligned with yours. At Burns & McDonnell, opportunity is waiting. We’re looking for people with big ideas and an entrepreneurial mindset. It’s those kinds of people who’ve helped us grow from a small consulting business back in 1898 to a global leader in engineering, architecture and construction solutions.

Today, we’re a thriving company with more than 10,000 professionals working in 75 offices worldwide and recognised as a Global Leader within T&D Construction.

At Burns & McDonnell, our engineers, architects, construction professionals, and specialists plan, design, permit, construct, and manage critical infrastructure facilities across the globe. As an employee-owned firm, our success is driven by empowering our teams to solve the world's toughest technical and operational challenges.

The Engineering Technical Director – Transmission & Distribution (T&D) will be responsible for leading the team of subject matter experts, and strategic engineering advisors across our high-voltage power delivery portfolio. In this pivotal leadership role, you will collaborate with Burns & McDonell’s global technical leadership team to define the technical vision, champion engineering excellence, establish rigorous design and QA/QC benchmarks, and direct multidisciplinary teams executing complex transmission projects for our clients.

The Technical Director will operate at the intersection of client standards and specifications, emerging T&D technology, and large-scale EPC execution projects, developing the next generation of technical leaders.

The primary mission of the T&D Technical Director is to continually enhance and advance Burns & McDonnell’s engineering excellence. Through oversight of engineering processes and tools, this role is pivotal in establishing T&D as the leading provider of design solutions characterized by the highest quality, safety, and effectiveness.

The T&D Technical Director will ensure consistency in direction and technical execution by providing leadership, guidance, and oversight to the Technical Design career paths.

• Drive a culture of safety, quality and continual improvement.
• Partner with the Quality Manager / Director to ensure the requirements of the Burns & McDonnell Quality Management System are suitable for the work being undertaken and the technical direction of the engineering.
• Oversee the identification and mitigation of technical and procedural risks across the business.
• Oversight of cause analysis and corrective action sessions for technical issues/best practices, NCR trends, and supporting activities to maintain ISO 9001 compliance.
• Responsible for engineering processes, tools, and specifications. This includes driving improvement as a result of the audit program or other measures.
• Coordinate with the department management and technology management to implement innovation to engineering processes, focused on efficiency, tools, and technology.
• Manage internal technical training for T&D, collaborating with resource management to maintain training consistency, effectiveness, and vision.
• Collaboration with Engineering Technical expertise in the broader global company to identify opportunities to improve technical solutions deployed in the UK, including OEM equipment/system solutions, innovations and engineering means and methods.
• Drive constructability, operability, safety-in-design (Prevention through Design), and outage-sequencing reviews for both greenfield builds and brownfield utility modernizations.
• Confirms clear objectives and key results are established and met to drive business needs and communicates these to the broader team.
• Cultivate,…