What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Engineering position at NES Fircroft?
Engineering Director
Canton, OH, United States
Essential Responsibilities
• Provides technical and engineering resource input to new business
proposals/opportunities.
• Manages overall electrical and mechanical engineering commitments to meet critical
customer deadlines.
• Ensure that proper records and other documentation are maintained.
• Electrical engineering subject matter expertise to assigned clients and advise other internal groups.
• Technical interface to customers during the execution phase of projects.
• Direct various project related design tests and analyzes and documents results.
• Recommends major changes in procedures or objectives.
• Administer and review engineering or related work provided by outside consultants.
Determine if methods, procedures, and results developed by outside consultants are analytically sound.
• Leads engineering review of customer technical specifications and the translation of specifications into safe, high quality, compliant equipment/systems.
• Consult or negotiate with customers to finalize engineering project specifications.
• Present engineering plans and progress status updates to project stakeholders and financiers.
• Review and approve proposed engineering designs and subsequent product and process enhancements or changes.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technologies as assigned.
• Implement approved engineering budgets and monitor actual expenses to ensure they fall within budgets, analyzing out of budget expenses and ensuring they are offset in other areas of the project unless fully justified.
• Negotiate favorable terms with 3rd party engineering suppliers and monitor and manager supplier performance.
• Perform administrative and oversight functions in approving proposals, expenditure and enforcing policies.
• Establishing goals, objectives and priorities of engineering staff. Monitoring performance to those goals and providing feedback to the employee and management.
• Drive quality and accountability within the Engineering Department.
• Lead interface from Engineering Department with all other areas of the business.
• Lead engineering effort in the resolution of technical issues.
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
• 15 years of related engineering experience, including 5 years of relevant leadership
experience directing a team of engineers.
• Knowledge of medium and low voltage power distribution equipment and associated
controls/data acquisition systems.
• Knowledge of ANSI, IEEE, NEC and other industry applicable standards and codes.
• Knowledge of DC traction power equipment preferred.
• Knowledge of power system analysis and associated calculations.
Preferred Qualifications
• Professional Engineering license
• Master’s Degree
Skills, Abilities & Other Requirements
• Familiarity with power system components and their application/specification.
• Must have excellent organization, supervisory, managerial and leadership skills to manage a team of engineers and technical staff.
• Familiarity with ISO policies and safety regulations.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills as well as interpersonal skills.
• Must have proven multitasking skills and can work in fast-paced, high demand environment.
• Must have excellent analytical and computational skills.
• Be results driven.
• Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with computer aided design tools including CAD.
• Ability to gather, analyze and summarize data in order to draw rational, fact-based conclusions.