Electrical Discipline Manager

Job Description

Lead the Charge as our Electrical Discipline Manager!

Dewberry's Huntsville, AL office is seeking an experienced Electrical Discipline Manager to spearhead our efforts in delivering exceptional mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) solutions. If you're an accomplished Professional Engineer with over 8 years of progressive technical experience, this is your chance to elevate your career by guiding our design team and ensuring that projects meet client expectations and budgetary requirements.

In this vital role, you will provide technical oversight and leadership, mentoring a talented team while fostering an environment focused on professional development and operational excellence. Your deep knowledge of the construction process and familiarity with AIA construction contracts will be invaluable as you take charge of multiple projects, ensuring they align with contract specifications and technical standards.

Key Required Skills:

• Accomplished Professional Engineer with 8 years of experience in MEP system design
• Strong knowledge of the construction process and AIA construction contracts
• Proven expertise in staff and department management
• Comprehensive understanding of plumbing, mechanical, and electrical systems, including their operation, space requirements, and costs

As the Electrical Discipline Manager, you will not only oversee the technical execution of projects but also play a key role in business development, networking with clients, and expanding our service offerings. You'll coordinate with various disciplines and consultants to ensure seamless project delivery, providing the design resources required to fulfill our commitments successfully.

If you're ready to take the next step in your career and lead a dynamic team, we encourage you to apply and contribute your expertise to a firm that values integrity and excellence!

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Responsibilities

Supervisory responsibilities include:

• Growing, mentoring, and developing the staff within discipline area to allow each person to achieve their maximum potential.
• Minimum annual evaluations for each direct reports.
• Providing technical guidance/leadership for discipline area.
• Organizing staff in a way to allow career advancement, professional development, quality client service, and operational efficiencies to meet business and project financial goals.
• Taking a very active role in recruitment of staff in discipline area including networking, recruitment, interviewing and “deal closing”.

Responsibilities:

Discipline Managers are expected to provide the following to others on the design team to effectively and successfully complete projects:

• Technical and Quality oversight of all project work for discipline area.
• Establishing/improving standards for discipline area.
• Adherence to project design schedule.
• Notification to Project/Client Managers if established project design schedule cannot be met. Notify in enough time to appropriately handle the situation, preferably at the latest 2 weeks prior.
• Adherence to discipline project budget. Review and provide updates on project budgets at milestone dates. Reviewing discipline budgets weekly.
• Attention to project scope during the design process to identify potential additional services.
• Identify staff performing design of the project, along with a senior staff member if required.
• Identify Engineer of Record.
• Provide general updates of projects (status in the process, tasks to complete, percentage complete currently, etc.)
• Identify milestone dates when each discipline should provide information, at each phase, to allow sufficient time to good design coordination.
• Provide 'on-the-spot' advice and decisions, technical and cost estimates.
• Coordination with all of the disciplines involved, including outside consultants.
• Work schedule for discipline showing:

Required Skills & Required Experience

• Accomplished (8 years of experience) Professional Engineer
• Knowledgeable of construction process, familiar with AIA construction contracts
• Self-motivated with highly developed verbal, written, and interpersonal skills
• Experience in staff management/department management
• Experience in the design of various MEP systems
• Well organized, takes good notes
• Good conceptual understanding of plumbing, mechanical, and electrical systems with general knowledge of system operation, space requirements, cost

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. So if you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*All recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry will be required to submit to a background screening, which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters:  Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

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