Director, Project Engineering

The Role

The Director of Project Engineering - Europe is responsible for leading the Project Engineering organization across the European region, ensuring the successful delivery of complex SCADA, Energy Management Systems (EMS), Generation Management Systems (GMS), Advance Distribution Management Systems (ADMS), and related Operational Technology (OT) solutions for electric utility customers.

Based in Europe, the Director will provide strategic leadership for a geographically dispersed team of Project Engineers supporting Professional Services delivery. This leader will establish engineering best practices, develop organizational capability, optimize resource utilization, and ensure consistent execution across multiple customer programs while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, cybersecurity, and customer satisfaction.

The Director partners closely with the large Professional Services leaders, Project Management, Sales, Product Management, Customer Support, and Executive Leadership to drive operational excellence, continuous improvement, and long-term business growth throughout the region.

• Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing regional team of Project Engineering Managers, Senior Project Engineers, and Project Engineers.
• Establish the strategic vision, organizational structure, and operating model for Project Engineering across Europe.
• Build organizational capability through recruiting, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and career development.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Develop engineering leadership within the organization by mentoring future technical and people leaders.
• Promote employee engagement and retention through effective leadership and talent development.

• Provide executive oversight for the engineering delivery of complex utility automation, SCADA, EMS, GMS, DMS, OMS, and Fluid/Gas projects.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with customer requirements and quality standards.
• Establish engineering governance, delivery methodologies, design standards, and technical review processes.
• Drive consistency in engineering execution across multiple countries and project teams.
• Provide executive support for critical customer escalations and complex technical challenges.
• Monitor engineering performance through key operational metrics and implement corrective actions where necessary.

• Establish and maintain engineering standards, processes, templates, and best practices across the regional organization.
• Ensure consistent execution of:
  • System architecture and design
  • Hardware and software integration
  • Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT)
  • Site Acceptance Testing (SAT)
  • Commissioning
  • Cybersecurity and networking standards
  • Documentation quality
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives that improve quality, efficiency, scalability, and customer outcomes.
• Encourage adoption of new technologies, engineering tools, automation, and digital delivery practices.

• Develop regional engineering capacity plans aligned with business growth.
• Oversee engineering resource planning across multiple concurrent projects.
• Balance utilization, technical capability, and customer priorities across the engineering organization.
• Collaborate with Professional Services leadership to forecast staffing requirements and hiring plans.
• Manage departmental budgets and support operational planning.
• Identify delivery risks and implement mitigation strategies.

• Build trusted executive relationships with utility customers across Europe.
• Participate in executive customer meetings, project steering committees, and strategic reviews.
• Partner with Sales and Business Development during pursuit activities by providing engineering leadership, technical strategy, and delivery confidence.
• Support proposal development, solution reviews, project estimation, and risk assessments.
• Act as an executive sponsor for strategic customer engagements when required.