Director of Engineering - Power Systems

Charleston, South Carolina
- United States;
Columbia, Maryland
- United States;
Phoenix, Arizona
- United States

BCES Global is a North American electrical contracting platform delivering safe, reliable, and high-quality power-system services across industrial, commercial, utility, and mission-critical environments. We combine deep local expertise with enterprise-level resources to support grid reliability, system upgrades, predictive maintenance, and emergency response across Canada and the US.

• 401K with 7% (US) / 5 % RRSP (CA) matching and immediate vesting
• 100% employer paid benefits
• Paid PTO
• Career development and advancement opportunities
• Travel and relocation opportunities throughout the larger organization

We're looking for a Director of Engineering to build and lead engineering as a true shared service across the entire BCES Global platform, owning the function's strategy, standards, and people across all operating companies, while also acting as a senior technical voice in business development, helping win and shape the larger, more complex work that a consolidated platform is uniquely positioned to pursue.

This is a build role. You'll design the operating model for how engineering is structured and delivered across a growing portfolio of acquired businesses, stand up the team and processes to support it, and represent engineering at the leadership table.

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for engineering as a shared service across all BCES Global operating companies
• Design and implement the shared-services operating model: how engineering capacity, standards, tools, and expertise are governed and deployed across a multi-entity, multi-region platform
• Build out the engineering organization - hiring, structuring, and developing engineering managers and teams, whether centralized, embedded within OpCos, or a hybrid model
• Establish platform-wide engineering standards, methodologies, and QA/QC frameworks for design, testing, inspection, and technical services, ensuring consistency regardless of which OpCo a customer is served by
• Own the engineering function's budget, resourcing model, and cost/pricing structure for shared services
• Evaluate and implement engineering tools, systems, and technology platforms that scale across the organization
• Build the playbook and infrastructure to rapidly integrate the engineering capability of newly acquired companies into the shared-services model

Provide technical leadership and oversight for protection & control engineering programs across the platform, establishing design standards, review processes, and best practices for power system protection, relay coordination, control schemes, and commissioning activities

Lead and govern electrical engineering and design services across operating companies, ensuring technical excellence, code compliance, consistency in design methodologies, and the successful delivery of medium- and high-voltage electrical infrastructure projects

• Sit as the senior technical partner to executive leadership and sales in shaping go-to-market strategy for engineering-driven work
• Lead technical input on major proposals, bids, and RFPs - particularly large, cross-OpCo, or platform-level opportunities that leverage the combined engineering capability
• Represent BCES Global in client, partner, and prospect discussions at a senior level, building credibility and trust in the platform's technical capability
• Identify and pursue opportunities where a unified engineering function creates competitive advantage - larger contracts, new verticals (e.g., data centers, renewable energy, EV infrastructure), and cross-border…